3D body scanning technology and virtual reality are providing people an objective view of their bodies, and is becoming a new way to treat body image disorders. “It’s definitely a detailed body image, but it’s not what we usually see,” said fourth-year dietetics major and President of URI’s Eating Concerns Advisory, Abbey Lanier. “So I…
University of Rhode Island’s Student Action for Sustainability collected over 30,000 lbs. of compost since launching its dining hall food recovery system last spring, according SAS President Dylan Murdock. This initiative is URI’s first attempt at post-consumer composting, according to Pierre St-Germain, the director of dining services. In URI dining halls, this is the food…
Learning about dairy farms on pen and paper is one thing, but seeing cows, meeting farmers and observing the milking process is another, according to Justine Deming, who teaches the University of Rhode Island’s New England Dairy Travel Course. “[It’s] a completely different perspective when you go and meet the farms and see how they…
Darren Criss has been charming audiences through song, screen and stage for over a decade and has amassed over 371,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Criss’ music has all the catchiness of hit Broadway tunes and the lyricality of today’s best songwriters. Additionally, his ability to charm audiences through song is what has brought him to…
Exposure to microplastics could be a piece to the puzzle of finding out what causes brain aging disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences Jaime Ross studies how environmental factors can contribute to brain health and brain aging disorders. In her studies, Ross exposed healthy mice to microplastics through their water…
If you were to walk into my room, the first things you would notice are the travel posters that frame my wall, a stack of Condè Nast Traveler magazines and dozens of travel books that I have collected. Similarly, if you were to sort through my Google Drive and Pinterest accounts, you would find numerous…
193 Coffeehouse hosted a screamo punk night for students on Thursday, April 4 where audience members could be found dancing around the room in parallel to the surge of sounds the bands projected. Azure Bluet, Nithan Gohok and the University of Rhode Island student band Told Not To Worry all performed at the event. Screamo…
Honors program professor Cynthia Taylor has been a member of the University of Rhode Island community for most of her life. After growing up around South Kingstown with her mother working at URI, then completing her bachelor’s and doctorate in anthropology at URI in 2003, to now teaching here since 2008, Taylor has made herself…
New England has been invaded, but not in the way you may think – jumping worms have taken root in the soils of New England farms, gardens and properties, causing severe effects on the ecology of these areas. On Thursday, March 28, the University of Rhode Island’s Master Gardener Program hosted a talk titled “Spread,…
As students deal with their classes, making friends, being away from their families and fearing not making the most out of their college years, stress is almost unavoidable. Despite this, there are many ways for students to combat that stress and even use it to improve their daily lives, according to Michael Starkey, the assistant…