Paula Grammas, a neuroscience researcher at the University of Rhode Island, was inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Science Circle of Fellows for her pioneering Alzheimer’s research. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) inducted Grammas, the executive director of the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at URI,…
Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| St. Augustine’s Episcopal Center, located on Lower College Road, is in partnership with the University of Rhode Island to help acknowledge and improve food insecurity on campus. Food insecurity doesn’t mean that an individual doesn’t have access to food. It’s about needing to choose how they’re going to organize…
Photo by Sarah Vincii |CIGAR| Master Gardener Program offers presentations and education regarding horticulture and garden management. You don’t need to have a green thumb to grow your own plants or start gardening. The University of Rhode Island’s Master Gardener Program offers free educational presentations open to the public. The program serves to educate people regarding…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| “I want every student athlete to leave here with their degrees and the opportunity to earn a championship.” Q: What does your job entail? A: “I am the Director of Athletics… and my job… the way I equate it is running a division of a company, so its one part…
Photo by Sarah Vincii |CIGAR| Have you ever thought about where your degree is going to take you? URI has a pre-law program that will keep you on the right track for law school. The pre-law program at the University of Rhode Island is helping to prepare students for the daunting task of going to law…
Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| “I won’t know all the answers, but I can learn.” Finish strong, stress later! Graduation, the receiving an academic degree or diploma, the goodbye to friends you won’t see everyday and the new and fresh beginnings. It is the quintessential bittersweet event in any student’s life. Seniors have devoted the past…
At the start of the spring 2018 semester, the University of Rhode Island appointed alumna and former undergraduate faculty member, Mary Leveille, as the College of Nursing’s new associate dean. From 2000 to 2014 Leveille taught the accompanying lecture series component for the psychiatric clinical, required for third year students in URI’s College of Nursing….
The University of Rhode Island has a variety of mental health resources, from the Counseling Center to the recently implemented Mental Health First Aid training program, but one resource students may not know about is the University of Rhode Island’s chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI is a Student Senate recognized organization…
Haibo He, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Rhode Island, has been researching and developing machines that possess neural networks, or intelligent computing systems, made to act like a human brain. “The long-term goal is to really to develop mechanisms that can mimic certain levels of the human brain, with the high…
THRIVE, an organization at the University of Rhode Island that engages students in impact opportunities to help them find their passion, will be hosting “Social Change: Concept to Reality” on March 3. In the past, THRIVE has hosted ChangeFest, an event where students who are avid advocates of social change work in teams to find…