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…
Forty-five University of Rhode Island students saddled up for a line dancing event in the Memorial Union Ballroom on Monday, Nov. 25th. The event was put on by the Office of Student Involvement and line dance instructor Steve Dessert from Mishnock Barn who led students through several routines. Dessert demonstrated each section of a dance…
On Thursday, Nov. 13, University of Rhode Island professor Michelago La Luna had an open discussion in Swan Hall with internationally acclaimed Italian author and activist Dacia Maraini to conclude URI’s 2024 Italian Heritage and Cultural Month. La Luna said that Maraini is a leader in Italy covering themes of World War II, gender, violence…
On Friday night, the University of Rhode Island’s improv club, Rhody Ridiculousness, had their first performance of the semester. “It was the biggest troupes and biggest crowd we had, people had to pull up chairs tonight which is the first time that ever happened,” the club’s vice president Ella McNally said. During the show the…
University of Rhode Island chemical engineering assistant professor and researcher Ryan Poling-Skutvik was awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award that allocates nearly $590,000 of funding for his lab over five years. Poling-Skutvik researches polymers, also known as plastics. Plastics are used in everything from electronics and appliances, to tools and textiles. “The modern era…
A group of marine microbiologists released a paper claiming that a species of algae and a species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, previously thought to be its own organism, is actually in an organelle of the algae. This study, released on April 11, was by several universities including the University of California, Santa Cruz and Kochi University…
On Monday, April 8, more than 800 University of Rhode Island students took over the quadrangle to watch a nearly 90% total solar eclipse. A solar eclipse is an uncommon astronomical event where the moon’s shadow covers the sun. Many people in the country may remember the last major solar eclipse that happened in 2017….
University of Rhode Island professor Emi Uchida was awarded a $150,000 Pew Marine Fellowship this year, to head a research program studying mangrove and seagrass ecosystems and their social impacts in Indonesia. The Pew Organization is a nonprofit and non-government affiliated organization that funds different research projects around the world based in the United States….