The University of Rhode Island Gender and Sexuality Alliance hosted a “Break Your Silence” concert to honor queer and transgender lives in partnership with the Gender and Sexuality Center on Tuesday. Rhode Island bands Marble House, told not to worry and Orange Peaks performed at the outdoor concert, held in the back courtyard of the…
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee’s 2025 budget cuts 0.89% of state funding for the state’s public libraries, shaving thousands of dollars in programming and staffing funds throughout the state. Under Rhode Island state law, the government is required to give public libraries 25% of their expenditures from two fiscal years prior. Gov. McKee’s budget cuts…
In their last meeting of the semester, the University of Rhode Island student senate elected a new house speaker, got a presidential platform overview and passed two new bills. Third-year Sen. Lauren Peckham was unanimously elected as speaker of the assembly for the 2024-2025 academic year, finalizing the new administration. Peckham ran unopposed, endorsed by…
The University of Rhode Island Musician’s Guild held a concert featuring bands Strip Mall, 8th Grade Slow Dance and RoboPumpkin on Friday in the Memorial Union. This was the second Guild-sponsored concert of the semester, bringing in local bands to play on campus. URI students were given discounted ticket prices, in this case half the…
South Kingstown has received a $1 million grant from the state of Rhode Island to build a third Emergency Medical Services station to better respond to an increase in call volume. The new station will be built off of Ministerial Road, on land bought by the town from the South Kingstown Land Trust. Totaling 3,000…
The University of Rhode Island student senate internally elected new senators and committee chairs, as well as passed their first bill under the new admin during Wednesday’s general assembly meeting. Following a new senator orientation given by President Goswami, the assembly internally elected eight new senators. These senators required a nomination from a sitting senator…
The art exhibit “Second Time Around,” curated by University of Rhode Island students with Professor Erin McCutcheon, is on display at the Jamestown Arts Center. The exhibit itself sprawls throughout the Jamestown Art Center, presenting a variety of mediums. Pieces took the form of quilts, photographs, garments and more. The white walls of the gallery…
The University of Rhode Island hosted 400 high school students for a Biomechanics Day event at Mackal Field House on April 3. The event, a graduate project by kinesiology master’s student Nadia Rajan, boasted 16 stations with various biomechanical innovations for the high schoolers to try. Stations were manned by kinesiology students, both undergraduate and…
Students gathered under cloudy skies to commemorate the lives of Black women murdered by law enforcement during an event hosted by the University of Rhode Island Black Student Union and the Women’s Center on Wednesday. The vigil honored 10 women, ranging from ages 11 to 44 years old: Ta’Nesha Chappell, Latoya Denise James, Priscilla Slater,…
Two Middle East policy experts visited the University of Rhode Island on March 26 to discuss the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in a panel co-sponsored by URI Hillel and the URI Department of Political Science. Representing Palestine was Ghaith al-Omari, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. al-Omari served various positions in the…