The Boston Museum of Science is challenging students across New England to help the city achieve carbon neutrality within the next 3 decades. Photo contributed by Ryan Thomas, Museum of Science marketing specialist. Climate change is one of the most prominent issues that scientists will have to address in the near future, but students are…
With the COVID-19 virus having originated in China, Asian-Americans have seen a noticeable uptick in hate crimes directed towards them. Photo from teenvogue.com. According to recent reports from the New York Times, the COVID-19 pandemic has, in part, led to an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans across the country. This has partially been…
Italian author and lifelong feminist Dacia Maraini recently discussed women’s rights virtually at an International Women’s Day event. Photo from acri.it. Dacia Maraini, an Italian writer, essayist and playwright, has been writing and advocating for women’s rights before Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in “The Battle of the Sexes.” On March 3, the University…
As COVID-19 has been gradually controlled, the University has reinstated in-person tours with some changes. Photo by James McIntosh. The University of Rhode Island is telling prospective students to mask up, get tested and sign up for small, abbreviated campus tours between now and May 1. Before COVID-19, campus tours were around an hour and…
Among the things that will never be the same because of COVID-19 will be the use of triple dorm rooms at URI. Photo by James McIntosh. ith the 2021-22 academic year rapidly approaching, the University of Rhode Island has unveiled its preliminary housing plans, announcing a major change from usual housing protocols: freshman double dorm…
Sheldon Whitehouse answers questions on climate change, renewable energy in R.I. URI students were able to discuss both climate change and renewable energy with R.I. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Photo from newsweek.com. Students in the University of Rhode Island’s Certificate in Energy Economics and Policy (EEP) program were able to talk to Rhode Island Senator Sheldon…
The Tomaquag Museum, currently in Exeter, will soon have a new home in Kingston. Photo from rimonthly.com. The Tomaquag Museum, which commemorates and celebrates the history of indigenous people in Rhode Island, recently announced that it will be moving to Kingston. Currently located in Exeter, the museum will break ground in Kingston in 2022. The…
Bryan Dewsbury, a URI biology professor, recently gave a talk through the Office of the URI Foundation and Alumni Engagement. Photo from web.uri.edu. Bryan Dewsbury, a biology professor at the University of Rhode Island, goes out of his way to get to know each one of his students every semester; the only problem is that…
The Student Senate passed two bills during this week’s meeting, dissolving the Instruments Committee and approving the menstrual product project in the Memorial Union. According to Instruments Committee Chair Christopher Bove, the Instruments Committee was implemented into the Student Senate constitution two years ago. “The Instruments Committee was never meant to be a committee to…
A research team in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy has developed a cheaper COVID-19 test that has the potential to be implemented throughout the community at large. Angela Slitt, a biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences professor at URI, led the development of the new quantiCOVID-19 test, alongside students working in the lab. Their…