On Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs met head-to-head in Miami, Florida for Super Bowl LIV. Initial projections anticipated a close game, and after a tough battle on the field, the Chiefs trotted their way to their first Lombardi trophy in 50 years, putting up 31 points against San Francisco’s 20….
EDuring the early afternoon of last Thursday, 31,000 Stop & Shop employees decided to switch up business as usual by suspending their regular work day activities and hitting the streets and sidewalks in an effective labor union strike. Of those 31,000 store employees, some of them work right here in Washington County. United Food and…
The 61st annual Grammy Awards was held in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, and the female artists in the Staples Center stole the show. Thirty-one of the 84 categories were won by women, up from 17 in last year’s Grammys. Of those awards, Kacey Musgraves took home one of the biggest awards of the night,…
Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Mendenhall. According to the United Nations, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale and without drastic action today, adapting to these impacts in the future will be more difficult and costly. It is that same statement that has researchers from South County, Rhode Island searching…
by Jack Cederberg, Nolan Reilly, and Will Pipicelli Super Bowl LIII was watched by an estimated 100.7 million people on Sunday night among all available viewing and streaming platforms, as reported by Variety. Although that seems like a massive number, the earliest Nielsen projections have the big game being watched in 44.9 percent of all…
The 2018 award season is almost over, but not before a few more big shows hit the main screens and the Hollywood streets. Buckle up your seatbelts music lovers, music’s biggest night of the year comes to you this weekend, the Grammy Awards. This year’s 61st installment of the famous awards show is being hosted…
Courtesy of NOAA Office of Exploration and Research and Kraken Robotics. Rod Mather, professor of history at the University of Rhode Island and an experienced archeologist, is working on a new project involving the imagery of sunken submarines in the Narragansett Bay. As a URI faculty member for about 20 years, Mather teaches maritime and…
Photo by Sarah Vinci | Mily Treviño-Sauceda and Elvira Carvajal speak to the audience of issues women face in the agriculture industry. On Tuesday, Nov. 27, Mily Treviño-Sauceda and Elvira Carvajal presented a lecture titled “The Power of the Collective Transforms: Women Migrants Raise Their Voices and Take Action” where they spoke about struggles that…
Photo by Sarah Vinci | Development of the laser lab has been successful with help from grad students and an amazing team. In September 2017, the department of chemistry welcomed Dugan Hayes to the team; just a year later, his physical chemistry-based research group, the Hayes Group, is off the ground and running in the…
Photo courtesy of Kathleen Dooher. William Van Nostrand of the George and Anne Ryan Institute of Neuroscience is leading research into the vascular mechanisms behind Alzheimer’s disease. Van Nostrand is The Herrmann Professor of Neuroscience, a distinguished faculty position within the institute. His position is funded specifically by Thomas Ryan, who was the President of…