Poetry, music and personal storytelling filled the Multicultural Student Services Center on Thursday as students gathered for the fourth annual HERstory Open Mic Night in celebration of Women’s History Month. The event created a space for members of the University of Rhode Island community to share creative work and personal experiences while uplifting women’s voices…
Faculty and staff at the University of Rhode Island gathered for a book club workshop centered around the book “Hacking College: Why Major Doesn’t Matter and What Really Does,” and discussed how its ideas could be applied to better support students on March 4. Posted through the University’s Advancement of Teaching and Learning office, URI…
The student senate approved a $5,000 contingency grant for the Asian Students Association’s annual Culture Show and heard updates from the Graduate Student Association on Wednesday. The senate unanimously approved the funding bill to support the ASA’s 32nd Culture Show, which will take place on April 17 at Edwards Auditorium at 6 p.m. The event…
The Mental Health Awareness Expo and Concert, organized by the URI Music Therapy Club, was held from 4:30 to 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Fine Arts Center. The event, which also served as a fundraiser for the Music Therapy Club, aimed to educate and involve the community by sharing valuable insights on mental health…
TEDxURI made a comeback to the University of Rhode Island this year with its largest audience, eight speakers and a new post-show talk-back session on Sunday. “We’ve been doing it at Edwards Auditorium for the last three years,” Vince Petronio said, the artistic director for TEDxURI. “This last year, we sold out the whole first…
The University of Rhode Island student senate passed a series of bills on Wednesday to officially recognize student organizations such as the E-Commerce club, Diversity Dialogues, Model United Nations and the reassignment of all existing senate club sports. The E-Commerce club was the first to become a senate-recognized student organization and provided with the first-year…
Anyone who’s ever read “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë, whether on their own volition or because their high school English curriculum made them, has been anticipating Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Brontë’s book. Let me preface this review by saying that, as readers, we tend to react strongly when our favorite storylines are altered in any…
The South Kingstown Chief of Police Matthew Moynihan addressed Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents on campus, issues regarding parking in the emporium and student involvement in a meeting with University of Rhode Island student senate on Wednesday. Moynihan was previously part of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service prior to the development of ICE. …
Students and professors at the University of Rhode Island are adapting to changes made in required reading to accommodate the decline of long-form reading. Approximately 1 in 3 adults in the United States read at the lowest on a five-level scale, indicating that roughly 59 million adults across the nation are unable to read long-form…
Artificial intelligence is allegedly capable of generating anything and everything; it’s even begun to infiltrate areas of human entertainment. However, the one thing AI struggles to curate images of is the human hand. I believe this speaks volumes about the rise of AI. AI may be able to mimic human abilities such as art, writing,…