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Student in Barcelona witnesses struggles for Catalan independence Senior Elana Rivkin got more than she bargained for when she decided to study abroad this semester in Barcelona. Between her classes, Rivkin is getting an up-close and personal experience with the controversial independence referendum that is inciting protests and violence across Catalonia. Carles Puigdemon, the Catalan…
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….
This semester, the University of Rhode Island welcomed Dr. Jeannette Riley to the administration as the new Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Riley spent the past five years working at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and is a joint professor in English…
A new research consortium for coastal ecology is being established statewide thanks to a $19 million grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Rhode Island. The grant, building on an additional $3.8 million of state funding, is part of a five year effort from the National Science Foundation to study the ecology…
The University of Rhode Island held its 11th annual Christiane Amanpour lecture series this past Wednesday. Stephen Adler, president and editor-in-chief of Reuters News, was this year’s guest speaker. Reuters is an international news agency that provides news to over 3500 news organizations worldwide. Those news organizations have subscriptions to Reuters and buy news from…
Students and faculty came together last Thursday to voice their concerns about sexual violence and rape culture at the University of Rhode Island. The event, “Speak Up, Speak Out: A General Assembly on Sexual Violence,” was organized by Graduate Assistants United in response to a column published two weeks ago by The Good 5 Cent…
Students at URI are used to seeing Starbucks coffee around campus but all of that changed this year. The universities dining services made the decision to start using Peet’s coffee this school year. Ram Escape, Hope Dining Hall, The Daily Grind, Rhody Market, and Butterfield Dining Hall will all serve the coffee, both cold and…
On Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m., a community discussion was held to provide an open space where students could talk directly to the University of Rhode Island Police Department and voice their concerns, called the “Real Conversations at Home.” The Rhode Island Student Union Project, one of the groups present at the event, voiced…
The University of Rhode Island rang in its 125th anniversary in the middle of downtown Providence on Saturday night. Students, alumni and the general public were invited to a special night of WaterFire to help the university celebrate the milestone anniversary at Waterplace Park Basin. The event, sponsored by URI, featured a special welcome tent…
By Emma Gauthier and Allie Lewis Sexual assault is an ongoing and pervasive epidemic happening at college campuses across the country – and the University of Rhode Island is not immune. According to the University’s 2015 Clery Report, there were six reported sexual assaults on campus. Many instances of sexual assault, however, go unreported. Only…