The University of Rhode Island student senate addressed student arrests, nominated this year’s election committee and discussed last year’s election issues during their second general assembly of the semester on Wednesday. Ellen Reynolds, vice president of student affairs, gave a presentation regarding move-in, including the weekend’s arrests. 22 URI students were arrested over the first…
The University of Rhode Island Honors Program is hosting their 61st annual colloquium, titled “Democracy in Peril,” from Sept. 17 through Nov. 12. This year’s colloquium is about the United States and global trends of political polarization, declining democracy and potential solutions, according to the 2024 Honors Colloquium page on the University’s website. The colloquium…
The 2024 Swim Across America charity event raised money for cancer research at the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and took place at Roger Wheeler State Beach in Narragansett on Saturday, Sept. 7. The University of Rhode Island women’s swimming and diving team were among dozens of teams and nearly 625 athletes from…
Ammina Kothari, the former director of the University of Rhode Island Harrington School of Communications and Media, announced her new position at a different university on July 29 in a LinkedIn post. On Aug. 1, Kothari started as the new dean of the Gwen Ifill School of Media, Humanities and Social Sciences at Simmons University…
In August, Daniel Hunt was announced as the new chair of the recently-merged Department of Journalism and Public Relations at the University of Rhode Island. Under Hunt, journalism and PR will still remain as separate majors, but they will be under one department. The new chair graduated from URI in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree…
The University of Rhode Island Police Department reported a total of 18 medical emergencies across campus within the first week of the fall semester, seven of which occurred over the weekend. URI Police daily activity logs from Sept. 2 to Sept. 8 state that all of the affected students were directly transported to the hospital….
In their last meeting of the semester, the University of Rhode Island student senate elected a new house speaker, got a presidential platform overview and passed two new bills. Third-year Sen. Lauren Peckham was unanimously elected as speaker of the assembly for the 2024-2025 academic year, finalizing the new administration. Peckham ran unopposed, endorsed by…
On Monday, April 15 there was an issue of vandalism reported at the Robert L. Carothers Library at 7:42 a.m. The police arrived at the scene and filed a report for the incident by 8:04 a.m. On Tuesday, April 16 there was suspicious activity reported in the faculty/staff lot next to the Beaupre Center for…
The University of Rhode Island’s Doctor of Pharmacy program is ranked 31 among 141 pharmacy colleges in the United States, the college’s highest rank yet. The University’s Pharm.D. program has risen steadily for the past four years, taking the number 40 spot in the last survey in 2020, and number 46 in 2016, according to…
The University of Rhode Island department of gender and women’s studies received a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation’s higher learning program in order to maintain the relevance of the humanities. The Mellon Foundation is the largest funder of the arts and humanities in the United States, according to their website . Through their grants,…