PHOTO CREDIT: Skylar Connot | Staff PhotographerA student pets a goat from Peckham Farm.A student from a Musicians Guild band performs on the quad during earth day celebration.Student vendors sell different pieces of art on the quad. Ready to sustainably shop, peruse potted plants and weave in between educational posters, students spent a sunny Earth…
The University of Rhode Island’s Greek Week wrapped up the evening of April 11 with a dance competition and the announcement of this year’s overall winners: Alpha Delta Pi and Theta Chi. The weeklong event raised a total of $148,000 for Special Olympics Rhode Island and Best Buddies of Rhode Island, according to the URI…
Cherie Rowe, a teaching assistant in the English department at the University of Rhode Island, finds a mirror and comfort in her grief through Shakespeare. This spring, Rowe is participating in a production of “Hamlet” at the Gamm Theatre where she plays Player Queen. “I think my teaching informs my acting in that I always…
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…