The University of Rhode Island College of Arts and Sciences saw the largest growth in new faculty this year, with 25 new hires making up almost half of the 61 new faculty in the various schools and departments across the university. The 25 new hires are a mix of both permanent and temporary faculty, with…
Alumni were welcomed back to the University of Rhode Island’s campus on Thursday, Oct. 17 to provide career advice to students in a panel hosted by the department of environmental and natural resource economics. Fourteen URI alumni were on the ENRE panel, hosted by professor and undergraduate program director Simona Trandafir in the Center for…
A 25-acre greenhouse complex is looking to begin production next to University of Rhode Island’s Peckham Farm after delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was partially funded by a $4 million state bond, which was announced in 2018 by former Governor of Rhode Island Gina Raimondo and former URI President David M. Dooley….
Mold that has spread throughout the Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons and the University of Rhode Island is generating solutions for its removal. DAI General Contracting and safety and risk management has taken precautionary measures around the impacted areas of the library, such as covering the infected bookshelves, evaluating the ventilation systems and…
A University of Rhode Island biomedical research program has obtained a $200,000 grant to increase the number of disadvantaged first-year students receiving stipends and research opportunities, accepting seven students a year – up from last year’s five. The Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Educational Diversity program was designed with the aim to help students…
Susan Solomon, a professor of environmental sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discussed past progress and present solutions to climate change in a lecture held at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus on Monday. Solomon’s talk centered around her recently published book, “Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can…
Students voiced their opinions on Oct. 17 in the Memorial Union Atrium 1 during an event held by the University of Rhode Island and Sasaki Associates team – gaining student feedback to be used toward the Comprehensive Campus Plan. The URI Comprehensive Campus Plan website states t he plan will create a vision for improvement…
During one session of the University of Rhode Island’s therapeutic horticulture group, students focused on the benefits of weeding – paralleling the process to removing things in their lives that no longer serve them. The therapeutic horticulture group connects students to their minds and bodies by creating something new and beautiful for themselves and others,…
Students at the University of Rhode Island ran out from their dorms to watch the northern lights ranging from pink to green over the United States on Thursday, Oct. 17. Aurora borealis have been seen before in areas like the Northeast and as south as Alabama, but it is more unusual, according to URI extreme…
The University of Rhode Island student senate convened Wednesday to discuss parking, position changes and the investigation of complaints. Head Jurist Andrew Ebrahimpour attended the meeting to make senators aware of the confidential complaints. Senators will be interviewed one by one in the following weeks as the investigation continues. Ebrahimpour discouraged senators from speaking with…