Tucked away in the University of Rhode Island’s Memorial Union is the gaming club, housing student competitions in console video games, card games and competitive computer games. The club’s first room is adorned with posters and drawings from club members, a wall of board games and a table of gaming laptops. This leads into another…
Indigenous tribe members spoke about increasing awareness for Indigenous people in a panel discussion hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s Multicultural Student Services Center on Nov. 6. The forum included speakers from the Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes, including Bella Noka, member and tribal elder of the Narragansett, and Mack Scott, director of undergraduate studies…
Members of the University of Rhode Island community learned about methods to improve their homes’ energy efficiency and avoid adverse health effects at a lecture on Tuesday. The event, titled “Comfortable, Healthy and Cost Effective: Power of Home Energy Upgrades,” took place in the Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center and was hosted by the university’s…
From Monday until Nov. 8, all University of Rhode Island undergraduate students can vote in the fall student senate elections, which elects candidates for spring 2025. Students running for office must have declared their candidacy by Friday and are allowed to campaign until Sunday. There are 21 open positions up for election, including five first-year…
The University of Rhode Island’s Community First Responder Program is trying to continue the decline in opioid overdose death rates, which RI.gov said decreased by 7.3% from 2022 to 2023. The CFRP is dedicated to informing and equipping communities throughout New England so they can combat opioid misuse and overdose effectively, according to their website…
An interactive play on the longest-running syndicated game show on network TV took to the Ryan Center on Friday, allowing local audience members to participate and win prizes in Wheel of Fortune Live. Attendees could register to put their names in a randomly-selected pot for a chance to be participants in the show. These chosen…
With the presidential election just around the corner, the University of Rhode Island’s Multicultural Student Services Center and Talent Development Program hosted a community voter registration drive on Sept. 24. The voter drive helped people register to vote and informed people who are already registered to vote of the issues, according to its URI events…
For the past two decades Brian Cardany has been the director of bands at the University of Rhode Island. He instructs the URI marching band, who can be seen at all home football games, open houses and more. They performed twice this year at home games on Aug. 31 and Sept. 14. “I think the…
The University of Rhode Island Honors Program is hosting their 61st annual colloquium, titled “Democracy in Peril,” from Sept. 17 through Nov. 12. This year’s colloquium is about the United States and global trends of political polarization, declining democracy and potential solutions, according to the 2024 Honors Colloquium page on the University’s website. The colloquium…
After standardization within the Gannett mass media company, many female comic artists noticed their work disappearing from newspapers. The Coloradoan released a list of comics that would be included within its newspapers, and cartoonists began to notice none of these comics were published by women, according to the Washington Post. A Gannett representative stated that…