On Monday, April 8, more than 800 University of Rhode Island students took over the quadrangle to watch a nearly 90% total solar eclipse. A solar eclipse is an uncommon astronomical event where the moon’s shadow covers the sun. Many people in the country may remember the last major solar eclipse that happened in 2017….
Judge Melissa DuBose, the first woman of color and openly LGBTQIA+ person to be appointed in the United States District Court in Rhode Island, shared her experiences of “living her truth” at the University of Rhode Island on Saturday. DuBose was the keynote speaker at the University’s Women of Color Conference, as part of the…
Nearly 50 local University of Rhode Island students took to the streets of Newport alongside more than 2,500 runners on Saturday as the ninth edition of the annual Newport Marathon, Half-Marathon, 5k and Beach Mile took place. Former URI women’s track and field member and fourth-year Katarina King was one of the students who spearheaded…
The University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy is home to a minor in cannabis studies which prepares students to work in the growing cannabis industry. The program offers four cannabis-specific classes along with two free elective courses, according to the program director, Stephanie Forschner-Dancause. Forschner-Dancause is a professor of biomedical pharmaceutical sciences and works…
Professor Ruchika Prakash spoke about the science behind mindfulness for the 2024 Thewis lecture in a virtual livestream on Wednesday, April 3. Prakash is a psychology professor at Ohio State University as well as the director of the Ohio State Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging. At the lecture, Prakash discussed the strength the…
The art exhibit “Second Time Around,” curated by University of Rhode Island students with Professor Erin McCutcheon, is on display at the Jamestown Arts Center. The exhibit itself sprawls throughout the Jamestown Art Center, presenting a variety of mediums. Pieces took the form of quilts, photographs, garments and more. The white walls of the gallery…
On a windy Wednesday afternoon in Kingston, Rhode Island, history struck the diamond at Bill Beck field in a mid-week contest between the University of Rhode Island and Stonehill College. In the bottom of the seventh inning, second-year first baseman Michael Anderson shot a ball into left field and rounded first base. As the Skyhawk…
Since its doors opened in 2002, the Thomas M. Ryan Center, home of University of Rhode Island men’s and women’s basketball programs, has been “bringing the ruckus” to Kingston. The Ryan Center boasts 8,000 seats at basketball games, creating an intense atmosphere that attracts the URI community, according to the Ryan Center website. The Ryan…
Honors program professor Cynthia Taylor has been a member of the University of Rhode Island community for most of her life. After growing up around South Kingstown with her mother working at URI, then completing her bachelor’s and doctorate in anthropology at URI in 2003, to now teaching here since 2008, Taylor has made herself…
Two Middle East policy experts visited the University of Rhode Island on March 26 to discuss the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in a panel co-sponsored by URI Hillel and the URI Department of Political Science. Representing Palestine was Ghaith al-Omari, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. al-Omari served various positions in the…