Standing between hurricanes and the destruction of the state of Rhode Island is Isaac Ginis, a hurricane expert at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Ginis received his education as an applied mathematician at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University in the former Soviet Union, where he heard a speaker deliver a lecture on…
For over 125 years, students at the University of Rhode Island have been participating in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. URI ROTC enters its 130th year in 2024, seeking to continue its mission of commissioning officers and providing students with leadership skills to succeed in the Army and beyond, according to professor of military…
Disclaimer: This tale is based on different accounts of this legend Welcome back to another series of “Spooky Stories” for this year’s spooky season. If anyone hasn’t read last year’s editions, the spooky stories were “The Legend of Dolly Cole”, “The Haunting of Lambda Chi Alpha” and the “Haunted Tavern”. For the start of this…
Husband and wife duo Eben Horton and Jennifer Nauck have successfully turned their passion for the art of glass blowing into their full-time career with their local Wakefield gallery and studio, the Glass Station. Horton’s interest in glass blowing sparked at the early age of 9 years old when he took an ornament making class….
The University of Rhode Island is known nationally for its Chinese Flagship Program, a program whose primary goal is for students to develop a superior level in the Chinese language to be applied in the professional world. Students across the country come to take part in this unique program and develop skills that will make…
Bridge to Opportunity, a program with efforts to reduce recidivism rates in Rhode Island, has been operating with the help from University of Rhode Island criminology and criminal justice professors Chelsea Farrell and Natalie Pifer. BTO is a program under the Building Future’s organization in Providence. BF, helps low-income community members begin working in the…
In the midst of midterms and the stress of college life,three on-campus resource centers are offering free “Crafternoon” workshops biweekly as an option for students. These workshops began in the fall of 2022, after the assistant director of Disability, Access, and Inclusion, Nina Schiarizzi-Tobin, had a conversation with Ming Lee Prospero of the Counseling Center…
Swan Hall is the home of the humanities classes at the University of Rhode Island, and is located right behind Edwards Auditorium and across the street from the Alumni Center. Swan is one of the bigger humanities halls at URI. It offers a wide variety of courses to take as a student at URI; most…
On Sept. 15, outside of the Memorial Union, a swarm of URI students flooded around giant bins, and tables of clothing, shoes, accessories and bathing suits. Crosswynds Traders had come once again, bringing pieces of highly discounted clothes for students to buy. Christine Woodbine, founder of Crosswynds, and URI alum created Crosswynds because she became…
University of Rhode Island alumni and sisters, Abby Rodman ‘84 and Julie Howard ‘86 host the podcast “Sisters Cracking Up,” where they discuss midlife and interview authors and other experts on the topic. Why did you decide to start the podcast? Rodman: It started right at the beginning of COVID in 2020 and we were…