Series of events highlight importance of global connections While COVID-19 still has a grip on international travel and Study Abroad programs, URI celebrated International Education Week last month. GRAPHIC CREDIT: Elizabeth Wong The University of Rhode Island celebrated International Education Week (IEW) with a series of discussions on the different ways global exchange is impactful….
To increase customer traffic, Ramtech moves to the Campus Store in the Memorial Union. PHOTO CREDIT: Siobhan Richards The University of Rhode Island’s main place for technological and computer help recently moved a short distance. RamTech Sales and Service used to be found on the first floor of the Memorial Union, in its own separate…
The URI Athletics Program and URI family mourns the passing of former student-athlete, Ryan Preston at the age of 24. PHOTO CREDIT: Providence Journal Last month, the University of Rhode Island community mourned the tragic loss of one of its own –– former men’s basketball player Ryan Preston. Preston ‘19, who played for the Rams…
Administrators urge community to get supplementary shot Following the most recent COVID-19 variant, Omicron, URI strongly encourages students to receive booster shot at Union. GRAPHIC CREDIT: Elizabeth Wong The University of Rhode Island has set up a vaccination clinic to give the community booster shots and initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines on Dec. 7-8 and…
Catherine DeCesare talks about her project entitled “Bermuda Prize,” at the Multicultural Student Services Center. PHOTO CREDIT: James Singer The sixth voyage of the Providence-based ship John Jay showed an important cross section of politics, economy and culture in the early 1800s, and 200 years later, was the recent focus of the University of Rhode…
This week the Honors Colloquium series featured Chelsea Rochman of the University of Toronto to talk about plastic pollution in the ocean. PHOTO CREDIT: utoronto.ca The seventh installment of the University of Rhode Island’s fall 2021 Honors Colloquium series, “SOS: Sustaining Our Shores,” focused on a great challenge facing our oceans that not only scientists…
From the Student Senate chambers this week: elections, a delay of the swearing-in ceremony and two new bills fighting for more benefits for on-campus students. Speaker of the Assembly Christopher Bove reiterated the motions senators can make during the public forum at the beginning of the meeting. This included bills that normally sit on the…
Lot aims to ease traffic issues, produce solar energy URI has begun construction on a new Plains Road South Lot that will open next Fall. PHOTO CREDIT: Greg Clark To combat the traffic caused by parking congestion at the University of Rhode Island, a new parking lot will be built on campus by the fall…
The water that fills URI students’ water bottles is sourced from water storage tanks and supply wells. PHOTO CREDIT: James Singer In 1892, the University of Rhode Island installed wells to provide water for the campus, but now, over a century later, the University has expanded and upgraded this irrigation system to keep up with…
Last Thursday, URI honored its veterans on the Quad. PHOTO CREDIT: Melissa Marchese Armistice Day, known to many as Veterans Day, is a day that holds a lot of meaning to the University of Rhode Island’s Student Veterans Organization. To celebrate Armistice Day, veterans, community members and students gathered in front of the American flag…