In the South Kingstown village of Wakefield, protestors marched along Main Street to advocate for free speech and human rights on April 5, taking part in the “Hands Off!” protests across the country. “It was a public showing of what we were feeling and what we were thinking,” said Susan Sward, founder of South County…
The University of Rhode Island will introduce a masters of public health program in the fall 2025 semester, expanding its Department of Public Health with an interdisciplinary approach designed to address contemporary health challenges. “We’ve seen a lot of demand from students for this type of degree,” Natalie Sabik, associate professor of public health, said….
A University of Rhode Island biomedical research program for disadvantaged first and second-year undergraduates received a formal grant termination under the National Institutes of Health on March 21, leaving students in the program devastated. Ever since funding freezes under the Trump administration swept the NIH funded programs like Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Educational…
The University of Rhode Island Student Senate failed to pass bills amending bylaw and constitutional changes on eight new advocacy seats. With a 22-10 vote by secret ballot, the bill amending the bylaw and constitutional changes for advocacy seats didn’t meet the three-quarters majority requirement for a bill to pass, as stated in the student…
On March 16, two arrests were made at Browning Hall at 11:20 p.m. Two students were taken into custody and handed over to the Narragansett Police Department. Both suspects had warrants out for their arrests for previous shoplifting charges. Two drug offenses were reported, one was at Butterfield Hall on Monday, March 17. Two students…
Fireworks were located in the ceiling of Boss Ice Area on Friday night. The fireworks were identified by University of Rhode Island police as M80s, an explosive that was federally banned in 1966 according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The explosives were located at 10:09 p.m. on Friday and the scene…
PETA2 visited campus last week to showcase a controversial virtual reality experience where students experienced what PETA2 claims it is like to be a prey animal, prompting outrage from students. The virtual reality experience to promote veganism, called “When They Came For Us,” was a seven minute VR video game where students were abducted by…
Quinn Hall, a building next to the quad, tested higher than any other building on campus when the University of Rhode Island Office of Utilities staff collected water samples for analysis of lead levels in the drinking water in February. All other buildings on campus tested at 0.005 mg/L or below, according to the Water…
The recent arrests of international students at Columbia University by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following pro-Palestinian protests have raised concerns amoung student activists and university administrators nationwide. As federal agencies take a tougher stance on campus activism, student leaders at other institutions fear similar repercussions. At the University of Rhode Island, student senate Vice President…
As the United States Department of Education continues to shrink, shutting down programs could impact department research at the University of Rhode Island. The indirect costs URI gets from federal funding from the National Institutes of Health dropped from 57% to 15%, according to Brian Krueger, the associate dean of political science. The federal grants…