The University of Rhode Island’s English department is offering an opportunity for undergraduate students to submit their writing through “The Caged Bird Sings” poetry contest. The contest requires students to write a 14-line poem about making, inventing, naming or creating. Undergraduate students can earn $1000 for first place or $500 for second place. Faculty can…
Buddhist monk Demo Rinpoche speaks on finding happiness. Photo by James Singer. Visiting Buddhist monk gives insight on how to feel content On Thursday, Feb. 27, a Buddhist monk visited the University of Rhode Island for a seminar on finding happiness in the right ways and right places for the Center for Nonviolence and Peace…
On March 25, URI students will have the opportunity to shave their heads in support of and donate to those suffering from cancer. Photo by James McIntosh. St. Baldricks to host fifth annual event on March 25 The University of Rhode Island will partner with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation on March 25 for their fifth…
The University of Rhode Island’s supply chain management department is teaching students how to improve communities through their work, in both business and nonprofit settings. Supply chain management is the management of the flow of goods, from raw materials to finalized products, as well as the organization of people and activities in a business. Many…
The world of virtual reality allows students to leave school pressures behind in the URI scholarly technology lab. Photo by Siobhan Richards. The University of Rhode Island scholarly technology labs is hosting a virtual reality (VR) party in an effort to give students a break between midterms. Erika Uzmann, the manager of scholarly technology labs…
Health College Representative and Co-Chair of The Cultural Committee Rhianon Small. Photo by Autumn Walter. After being unschooled for the first 18 years of her life, Rhianon Small was more than ready to begin her life as a college student. After attending the Community College of Rhode Island for four years, Small enrolled at the…
Dr. Sunshine Menezes of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting. Photo by Autumn Walter. Dr. Sunshine Menezes has a lot of interests. Thankfully, she has found a place at the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting that incorporates everything that she cares about. There, Menezes combines her love of oceanography, science communication…
Professor Laura Meyerson of the Natural Resource Sciences Department. Photo by Greg Clark. A global study of the invasive plant species, phragmites, has led Dr. Laura Meyerson to scale the coasts of North America and Europe. Meyerson, a professor in environmental and life sciences, researches this species specifically to observe what changes in this species…
URI Social Media Coordinator Shaun Holt. Contributed by Shaun Holt. “I think that I’ve always loved the concept of storytelling and I think almost anything you do in life you can break down through a story. That’s why I love talking to people, that’s why I love listening to people; so to find ways to…
Political Science Professor Brendan “Skip” Mark lectures on the book that changed his life. Photo by Nicole Wagner. One book on human rights changed Brendan Mark’s life. The book, entitled “Human Rights and Structural Adjustment,” convinced the now-professor of political science to focus his research on human rights and inequality as he pursued his degree…