Sophomore nursing major, Abby Royer, is one of many students helping to fight COVID-19. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. Over the past several months, University of Rhode Island nursing students have taken steps to join the fight against COVID-19 by entering the workforce. The URI College of Nursing contacted students by email during the mandatory quarantine…
Meet Chief Diversity Officer Mary Grace Almandrez Chief Diversity Officer, Mary Grace Almandrez, discusses her inspirational career. Photo courtesy of Brown University. Mary Grace Almandrez, the chief diversity officer (CDO) at the University of Rhode Island, an unusual favorite place on campus: the second floor of Quinn Hall. To most, Quinn Hall is just another…
Professor moms meet virtually to discuss challenges they face in pandemic URI Professors, Cheryl Foster, Kayon Murray-Johnson and Anna Santucci, share their experience of balancing work and children amid the pandemic. Photos from uri.edu. Professor Cheryl Foster checked her calendar and realized she’d put in the wrong date for the “Professor Mom” Zoom lounge on…
Dive Research Education and Training gets students scuba Students can get their scuba diving experience by training with the Dive Research Education and Training Program. Photos by James McIntosh. For students interested in deepening their knowledge of aquatic environments, the Dive Research Education and Training Program at the University of Rhode Island offers scuba diving…
Sophomore Chris Bove does it all Photo by James Singer. Chris Bove, a sophomore studying political science, history and communications at the University of Rhode Island, might be one of the busiest students on campus. “I’m a triple major, I’m [on] the Board of Trustees, I’m in the Student Senate, I’m the president of [University…
Former Deputy Director at NASA’s Earth Science Division Paula Bontempi is now the new dean of URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Photo from uri.edu In August 2020, the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) welcomed Dr. Paula Bontempi as its new dean. An alumna of the GSO, Bontempi has plans to revitalize…
URI hires new full-time faculty member for design Theatre Professor James Horban teaches students about lighting on stage productions. Photo by James Singer. As a teenage boy, he would sit in front of his computer, making his own light shows with the pre-visualization software and lighting consoles he had downloaded onto his computer; his own…
Students can participate in volunteer opportunities through URI club S.A.V.E.S. Photos contributed by S.A.V.E.S. Students Actively Volunteering and Engaging in Service (S.A.V.E.S.), a club at the University of Rhode Island committed to community service, won’t let COVID-19 stop them from helping the local community. As new regulations have been implemented for every on-campus club at…
URI film student Logan MacDonald has a popular account on TikTok. For many, TikTok has been the much-needed distraction from the overwhelming amount of bad news 2020 has to offer. Part of the beauty of the app’s algorithm is that content is curated for each specific user, designed to cater to each user’s specific interests….
Community fights COVID with refurbished sleep apnea machines Dr. Tao Wei, associate professor of electrical, computer and biomedical engineering, led a program to turn sleep apnea machines into ventilators to help fight COVID-19. Photo courtesy of web.uri.edu. Engineers from the University of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation are working to safely refurbish…