Magic or tragic? Disney film adaptations

How Disney has defined 2010’s and 2020’s through their live-action remakes. PHOTO CREDIT: metacritic.com In the same way that Disney’s animated films defined the 1900’s, and especially the 1990’s and the way that Pixar’s CGI films defined the 2000’s, Disney’s live action remakes are quickly defining the 2010’s and 2020’s.  However, while films like “Snow…

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From  ‘beans to bar’

URI student runs award-winning chocolate company First-year student, Ella Schnider with her product from Gansett Chocolate Company. PHOTO CREDIT: Nick Pierson | Contributing Photographer In January 2021, a chocolate company called “Gansett Craft Chocolate” opened in Wakefield, Rhode Island, according to Ella Schneider, a first-year student studying entrepreneurship and innovation business at the University of…

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Second-ever postseason win sees women’s basketball through to WNIT Super Sixteen

Sophie Phillips put up a team-high 20 points in Monday’s win, just one point short of her career-high. PHOTO CREDIT: gorhody.com The Rhode Island Rams women’s basketball team defeated the University of Richmond Spiders 74-64 in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT) to claim their second postseason victory in program history…

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Rhody readies for Ramadan

URI offers accommodations to students who celebrate Ramadan. Pictured: Students from URI MSA. Photo Courtesy of: URI MSA Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic calendar according to the Islamic Networks Group, began on March 22, and Muslims worldwide are coming together through fasting, prayer, charity and self-reflection.  Islam’s five pillars are profession…

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Verified? Certified.

Harrington School launches new social media certificate New Social Media certificate allows students to be trained in the ever changing world of Social Media. PHOTO CREDIT: Connor Zisk | Staff Photographer The University of Rhode Island recently announced the creation of a new graduate certificate program focused on social media, run by the Harrington School…

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Female marine scientists discuss gender harassment, inequality in oceanography

From left to right Katy Croff Bell, founder and president of Ocean Discovery League, an organization which focuses on accessible deep-ocean exploration, Fenix Garcia Tigreros, a GSO assistant professor and Rebecca Robinson, a GSO professor. PHOTO CREDIT: Connor Zisk | Staff Photographer To honor Women’s History Month, the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of…

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Telling HERstory: Women’s history month celebrated through poetry jam

Images from Poetry jam held at the MSSC to celebrate women’s history month. PHOTO CREDIT: Ellie Shennann | Staff Reporter The University of Rhode Island’s Multicultural Student Services Center (MSSC) hosted an open mic night about celebrating women on March 2 as an introduction to Women’s History Month. Titled “HERstory Poetry Jam,” this MSSC event…

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