On Oct. 13, the University of Rhode Island’s Chinese Flagship program held its annual Mid-Autumn Festival celebration on the URI Quad, with many students attending to participate in games, eat different traditional Chinese pastries such as mooncakes and learn about the rich history of this holiday. According to ancient folk tales, for over 3,000 years…
For our next spooky tale, we travel to New Hampshire to meet Nancy Barton, who haunts the Appalachian Mountains with her shrieks and cries of laughter, according to the Appalachian Mountain Club. In the 1770’s, 16-year-old Nancy Barton was a servant for Colonel Joseph Whipple on his farm in Jefferson, New Hampshire. While she was…
Brothers On a New Direction, known as B.O.N.D., is a student organization at the University of Rhode Island that aims to unite and create a safe space for young men of color while also having others to connect with and rely on, according to Club President Daryl Mensah. Since 2007, B.O.N.D. has aimed to help…
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…