This summer, the RAM Gift Shop located in the basement of the Memorial Union was replaced by an expanding RAM Tech store. The space usually full of University of Rhode Island merchandise is now home to RAM Care and other services that RAM Tech provides. “We didn’t really close it,” Paul Whitney, Director of URI…
For the last three years, one professor at the University of Rhode Island has been investigating the needs and constraints of clothing and textiles necessary for long duration space travel. “The actual investigation relies on first of all knowing what the needs are,” Karl Aspelund, assistant professor in the department of textiles, fashion merchandising and…
Located on the south end of campus, Peckham Farm offers students in the animal science program the ability to get hands-on experience with a number of farm animals. Fred Launer, a lecturer for both AVS 102 and 104 on the farm, explained how the farm is three-fold. “It’s a teaching facility, a research facility and…
The American Sign Language Club has garnered a lot of popularity this semester, prompting the question as to why American Sign Language (ASL) is not offered as a course at the University of Rhode Island. Even being the fourth most popular language in the nation, ASL is not represented as such in the university. ASL…
The Kirk Engineering Lab houses the University of Rhode Island Dynamic Photomechanics Lab (DPML) that explores both explosions and underwater implosions. The lab is led by Arun Shukla, URI professor of mechanical engineering, whose life’s work has been to discover how materials fracture under unusual circumstances. Or, in plain terms, blowing things up. In this…
The Department of Housing and Residential Life (HRL) at the University of Rhode Island is undergoing both an internal and state investigation into several complaints that were issued last November. A statement put out by the university as of Sept. 27th states that “URI internal auditors immediately began an investigation of the complaints, which can…
Doctor Marguerite Capone is introducing a new idea to her PSY 235 course on Theories of Personalities, incorporating a special project to go along with her typical psychology exams. This project is for her students to apply the personality perspectives they learn in class to that of Alexander Hamilton – the historical figure portrayed in…
The School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island has recently been awarded nearly $3 million from the National Science Foundation to use towards a research expedition in the Arctic’s Northwest Passage. In August of 2017, 12 high school students, 18 undergraduate students, six graduate students and a team of dedicated scientists will depart…
Doctor Marguerite Capone is introducing a new idea to her PSY 235 course on Theories of Personalities, incorporating a special project to go along with her typical psychology exams. This project is for her students to apply the personality perspectives they learn in class to that of Alexander Hamilton – the historical figure portrayed in…
Many students don’t know that much about student loans, especially when it comes to their own. And that, according to Michael Ice, finance instructor within the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island, is a problem. “The money is easy to take,” Ice said. “It’s almost too easy to get student loans.”…