Anna Meassick | Students were granted the Wednesday before Thanksgiving off to give more time for traveling. This year, students at the University of Rhode Island will be given off from classes on Wednesday, Nov. 21, the day before Thanksgiving. The rationale behind this decision is to allow time for out-of-state students to get home…
Photos courtesy of RIADPA | Runners start the 5K course at Goddard Park in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for the Annual Optimism Run/Walk to benefit Parkinson’s Disease Last week, the American Parkinson’s Disease Association hosted their 20th annual Parkinson’s Optimism Walk and 5K at Goddard State Park in East Greenwich. While many different groups attended…
Starting Sept. 21, the University of Rhode Island will be bringing together different forms of innovation on campus in an “Innovation with Impact” event. URI has many projects that support innovation on the campus prompting the Academic Innovations Group to decide to create an event in which these innovations can all be tied together. A…
Multiple professors at the University of Rhode Island were granted $134,000 in seed funding from the Rhode Island Foundation to advance medical research on issues such as diabetes, prenatal care and cancer. “Healthy lives and economic security are two of our three strategic priorities,” said Jenny Pereira, vice president of grant programs at the Rhode…
Photo by Harry Schlenger | Construction began on Rodman Hall at the beginning of the semester in order to preserve the historic character of the building. The University of Rhode Island began construction on the exterior of Rodman Hall this fall much to the surprise of many in the community. The University decided it needed…
On Tuesday, Sept. 25, the University of Rhode Island will kick off the first event of the 2018 Honors Colloquium. This year’s theme “Reimagining Gender: Voices, Power, Action,” will host a variety of speakers as well as an art exhibit and theater production. There has been a process leading up to this point, where the…
Photo by Anna Meassick Tuesday, Sept. 11 At 12:03 p.m., there was a motor vehicle accident on the north side of the parking lot of the Fine Arts building. A report was filed. Wednesday, Sept. 12 At 11:09 a.m., the burglar alarm went off in the art department of the Fine Arts building. It was…
Hurricane Florence made landfall on Friday morning near Wrightsville Beach in Wilmington, North Carolina. Florence was a category one hurricane when it made landfall. As of Sunday night, the heaviest hit area was the southern half of North Carolina’s coastline. Close to 30 inches of rain fell and over 90 percent of the population had…
In the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate meeting last night, the committees discussed various advancements. President Adriana Wilding encouraged senators in the meeting to reach out to people to run for Senate, as there are 16 seats vacant and only 10 people running to fill them. Representatives from the College of Health Sciences as…
Sarah Vinci | Students were surprised this fall when they discovered the brand new shuttle system. With the start of the 2018 fall semester, the University of Rhode Island’s Transportation and Parking Services debuted their new shuttle vehicles in hopes to improve on-campus transportation. The buses can be identified by their clearly displayed URI logos,…