Spizella passerina – the Chipping Sparrow – is a tiny bird found regularly on campus and in the adjacent North Woods. Chipping Sparrows can be found in most parts of North America and are one of the most common bird species in Rhode Island. Although they are primarily granivores (seed-eaters), they’ll nab the occasional insect…
Sciurus carolinensis – the Eastern Gray Squirrel is a rambunctious rodent known all around North American university campuses for their charisma and coexistence with students. These resourceful omnivores can be seen prancing around campus and jumping tree to tree. Unlike some other woodland creatures, squirrels can thrive in suburbia. If you ask one, I’m sure…
State Rep. Terri Cortvriend and Sen. Victoria Gu announced bills to protect shoreline access points on March 26, according to a Rhode Island General Assembly press release. One bill would allow towns in Rhode Island to preserve abandoned roads that act as access points for shore recreation, some of which are abandoned or are threatened…
The Rhody Ridiculousness improv troupe took to the stage on Friday in their first performance of the spring semester, where members of the club played out scenarios based on suggestions from the audience. “We had a really great audience with really great suggestions, and I think our troupe did really well with incorporating them while…
The backbeats were at the forefront at the University of Rhode Island’s Fine Arts Center on Saturday for the 25th annual Rhode Island Percussion Ensemble Festival. The event, put on by the Percussive Arts Society, featured nine ensembles representing eight middle school, high school and community groups. Kyle Forsthoff, the classical percussion specialist at URI,…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration withdrew a speed limit reduction law originally intended to limit ship-strikes for whales on Jan. 15, prompting concerns from Graduate School of Oceanography emeritus marine researcher Robert Kenney. Under the current speed limit regulations, most vessels that exceed 65 feet in length are limited to a speed of 10…
The University of Rhode Island marine affairs department brought in University of Akureyri professor and Fulbright Scholar, Rachael Lorna Johnstone, to give a lecture on the Indigenous people of Greenland’s fight for self-determination under international law on Feb. 25. Johnstone discussed the history of Greenland and the people that have inhabited the land. As reflected…
University of Rhode Island student radio stations, RIU2 and WRIU, were without power after a January snowstorm caused a power outage, RIU2 has not returned to air as of Feb. 17. The power surge from the outage caused the transmission equipment for WRIU to fail, according to Lawrence-Mark Cubbabe and Taylor Fairchild, two student engineers…
The “art of war” is something that the modern American citizen requires a proxy to understand. For many of us, sports give us a taste of battle. The 2024-2025 Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs understood this art. Both teams overcame the attrition of an National Football League regular season to go on crazy…
They are inevitable. They are the Kansas City Chiefs. The first team in the National Football League’s history to win back-to-back Super Bowls and make it to the next one, they have a chance to do the first ‘three-peat’ in the Super Bowl era. They are already the undisputed greatest NFL football dynasty ever. And…