In 2022, the Center for Disease Control reported over 100,000 deaths related to opioid overdoses. Most of these overdoses involved the use of illicitly manufactured fentanyls. Fentanyl mixed with xylazine is posing a new threat to the United States. University of Rhode Island professor Anita Jacobson, pharm.D, is an expert on opioids and runs the…
Associate professor of chemical engineering Samantha Meenach was awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Institute of Health to form the Enhancing Science, Technology, EnginEering, and Math Educational Diversity program (ESTEEMED). This program will push students with disadvantaged backgrounds into the field of research in various bioengineering and bioscience research disciplines at the University…
Hundreds of student volunteers at the University of Rhode Island came together to help welcome and move in students during move-in day to start the new school year off. 2023 was the first time the University was able to have volunteers help out in big numbers since the pandemic, according to Assistant Vice President for…
This summer, University of Rhode Island French professor and head of the honors department Karen de Bruin was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques (Order of the Academic Palms). The award is the highest honor given to an educator in France or abroad. It was presented to de Bruin by the Prime…
After 30 years, a Malcolm X misquote has been removed from the outside of the Carothers Library. PHOTO CREDIT: Lucas Masiello | Staff Photographer The University of Rhode Island has finished removing a 30 year old misquotation of Malcom X engraved on the Robert L. Carothers Library. On Nov. 10, 1992, the URI Black Student…
Third-year student honored for resiliency, activism Pictured: Lina Al Taan Al Hariri, recipient of prestigious Truman Scholarship for public service leadership. Photo Courtesy of: Lina Al Taan Al Hariri Lina Al Taan Al Hariri, a third-year University of Rhode Island student and $30,000 Harry S. Truman Scholarship recipient, has redefined her identity as a Syrian…
The University of Rhode Island’s Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) held its annual Lavender Graduation to honor LGBTQ+ graduates on Thursday, April 20. This was the 11th annual Lavender Graduation, according to GSC Director Annie Russell. Russell started the ceremony when she came to URI in 2012. “I had worked at a previous institution and…
Disproportionate impacts of environmental hazards on people of color Graphic by: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor In honor of April being Earth Month, professors at the University of Rhode Island discussed the topic of environmental racism and justice. The non-profit organization, Greenaction, defines environmental racism as “the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of…
Illustration by: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor This week from the Student Senate: changes made to the Student Handbook were outlined, a new Senator and Jurist were elected and a new club was approved in the final Senate meeting of the semester. After the agenda and minutes from the previous meeting were approved, the Senate…
URI Hillel honored victims of the Holocaust with flags along the Dieter Hammerschlag Mall. PHOTO CREDIT: Eddie Melfi | Staff Photographer Sharing two stories of turmoil and triumph, 95-year-old Holocaust survivor Alice Eichenbaum discussed how she witnessed the war in Bulgaria and how her husband survived Auschwitz at the University of Rhode Island on April…