Teaching assistant Darcey Lovell recently shined light upon the female detectives of the Victorian Era as she unveiled her doctoral research at the Center for Humanities’ final Brown Bag lecture series of the spring semester. Lovell’s lecture explored female detectives in Victorian detective fiction during the from the mid-1800s to around 1915, when detective fiction…
As a part of sexual assault awareness month, the University of Rhode Island’s Violence Prevention and Advocacy Services and the Women’s Center hosted a Take Back the Night Event on April 9. The event, which was held outside the Memorial Union, featured speakers from the student senate, Powerful Independent Notoriously Knowledgeable Women, URI’s Bystander Intervention…
“We’re now a nation where people seek the affirmation they want, rather than the facts they need,” Walter Robinson, a renowned journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner and editor-at-large for The Boston Globe, said to the crowd at the Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center. Robinson delivered a lecture on April 8 in partnership with the Taricani Lecture…
The North Woods off the University of Rhode Island’s campus is home to a variety of species and is a hub of activity for wildlife research and conservation at the university. The North Woods Hiking and Conservation Club, which was founded two years ago, seeks to educate students on the value of the North Woods,…
President Donald Trump continues to slash government agencies and federal funding, which begs the question: Can he do that? Since the start of President Trump’s second term, he’s implemented multiple new policies and made changes based on his strong beliefs, according to Peter McLaughlin, an assistant political science professor at the University of Rhode Island….
The University of Rhode Island’s student chapter of the National Organization for Rare Disorders is looking to boost campus awareness by ‘sharing their stripes’ to build a deeper education of rare diseases on campus. Founded in February by first-year neuroscience major Lauren Junge, the club aims to bring awareness to all diseases, according to Junge….
Jefferson Cowie, professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian from Vanderbilt University, came to Kingston to discuss the resurrection of populism in American politics in recent years. Cowie’s lecture at the University of Rhode Island concluded the URI Center for the Humanities series titled “Sustaining Democracy.” Populism is a political ideology, commonly held by the middle and…
Assistant Teaching Professor Colleen McAlister intertwines her interests in archaeology and Spanish literature, allowing her to teach a variety of classes at the university over the past two years. McAlister grew up in Monroe, Connecticut and attended the University of Connecticut where she received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and Spanish in 2013. From there,…
In the ’70s and early ’80s, the Memorial Union at the University of Rhode Island housed The Pub, a local bar serving alcoholic beverages to students and professors. The bar saw a tumultuous history during its lifespan, opening in 1971. While its history is highly documented, Steven Corey, a member of the student council in…
The University of Rhode Island’s meal plan rates are lower than the University of Connecticut and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, according to dining services. However, does lower price necessarily mean lower quality? At URI, the smallest unlimited dining plan costs $2,800 a semester and the largest is $3,200 a semester, according to URI dining…