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…
The Center for Career and Experiential Education (CCEE) at the University of Rhode Island is bringing in nearly 15 different companies across different fields in the College of Arts and Sciences to speak with students virtually. In this “lunch and listen” series, students will have the opportunity to speak virtually with professionals from the public…
Professors encouraged to offer flexible classes The Faculty Senate, Interim Provost Laura Beauvais and President Marc Parlange recently informed the University community in an email there’s going to be a “Catch-up Day” on Wednesday, Nov. 24. PHOTO CREDIT: Siobhan Richards Asynchronous work, Zoom classes, office hours or a complete day off to get work done…
Kevin Lopes ’05, the current senior director of business development at ESPN, was one panel member offering advice to aspiring media professionals. PHOTO CREDIT: Harrington School Journalism is a business of telling stories, and the four journalists of the Harrington School of Communication and Media Professionals Panel had a lot to tell students at the…