The University of Rhode Island is currently celebrating its sixth annual Coming Out Week. Hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Center, celebration is held within the same week as National Coming Out Day. Observed each year on Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day encourages members of the LGTBQ+ community to disclose and celebrate their identities….
The University of Rhode Island’s Jazz Big Band entertained hundreds of URI Alumni and local residents during the Wakefield Oktoberfest and River Fire this past Saturday, as part of the University’s 125th anniversary celebration. Seventeen undergraduate students, and one graduate student, fill the ranks of the band, directed by Grammy nominated composer Professor Joe Parillo….
The first month of college is similar to a maze. Students move onto campus and have to navigate their way through the madness of getting back into the rhythm of academics and signing up for clubs. It often seems to students that they may not survive. However, it is very possible to see the light…
Over the last year and a half there has been a rise in students throwing projectiles, juggling and slacklining on the quad. This craze is owed to one of the fastest growing clubs at the University of Rhode Island: URI Flow. URI Flow is anything but a traditional club, it is instead an outlet to…
While most people know about the three big University of Rhode Island campuses, Kingston, Providence and the Bay campus, there is a fourth satellite campus sitting on 2,300 acres in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Alton Jones is a URI campus that most people don’t realize is affiliated with the school. In fact, many students…
This year marked the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Confucius Institute (CI) on the University of Rhode Island campus. Last Friday, students and faculty involved with the CI, in partnership with the Chinese Language Flagship Program, hosted the annual Chinese Moon Festival celebration in the Edwards Hall auditorium. Zhenjiang University’s artistic prowess was…
Thanks to the largest gift in the University of Rhode Island’s history, courtesy of Tom and Cathy Ryan, the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience has the ability to pioneer in the research on neurodegenerative diseases. In fact, they are truly making a name for themselves in the neuroscience world. A wide misconception about…
In recent times, many have tied the term rhetoric with words like divisive and hateful, but Aria Loberiti, a University of Rhode Island sophomore studying biology, political science and communication studies, hopes to help change that perception here on our campus. Loberiti, a youth delegate at the United Nations International Human Rights Summit, plans to…
On Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, the Department of Economics hosted a presentation in the Multicultural Student Services Center on U.S.-Cuban relations. Planned in partnership with Witness for Peace, a non-profit organization committed to exposing systemic oppression through social change and grassroots solidarity, the keynote speaker was Cuban poet and popular educator, Marcel Luerio Reyes. Introducing…
Dining services offers first locally sourced meal as part of green initiative On Wednesday, Sept. 20, Dining Services at the University of Rhode Island hosted their first locally sourced fish dinner as a part of their sustainability initiative. The bluefish was caught, filleted and transported by the Narragansett Bay Lobster Company in Galilee. URI has…