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…
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…
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,…
Turning Point USA held a shoot-out hockey competition on March 4 that sparked complaints from students in the University of Rhode Island’s Young Democratic Socialists of America Club. The event invited students to compete in a men versus women shoot-out hockey competition and talk to some members of the club to learn more about their…
The Resilient, Innovative, Sustainable, Economies via University Partnerships, RISE-UP, program is inviting University of Rhode Island students to take part in their Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenges going until April 22. Each college at URI is sponsoring a real-world challenge that students can choose from to submit a pitch for. Each challenge is centered around a…
Since its founding in 2014 at St. Augustine’s Church, Rhody Outpost has grown in size and is continuing to serve and aid students in the URI community. Rhody Outpost is an organization that provides one in four graduate and undergraduate University of Rhode Island students who are food insecure with the resources they need, according…
At the end of January, University of Rhode Island professor of pharmacy Matthew Lacroix was named a fellow by the American Pharmacists Association for his contributions to the association and the profession. Lacroix is the director of accreditation and assessment for URI’s College of Pharmacy. He has been involved in policy development, is a committee…
Sadie Brandt Contributing Reporter Romantic comedies are my favorite movie genre, filled with happy couples, 2000s soundtracks and horrific retro fashion choices. In 2022, I watched 15 rom-coms in a week after my boyfriend and I broke up. Whether that was a healthy coping strategy or not is up for debate, but it gave me…