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Dec 5, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
“Gazans Starve – USA sends bombs, what kind of nation are we?” read a sign that stood on the Quad on Wednesday. URI Students for Palestine organized the protest, standing around poster boards with the names and faces of Palestinians killed in Gaza to spread awareness of the ongoing humanitarian crisis. They further urged the university to divest from companies that support the Israeli Defense Forces.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
The University of Rhode Island’s Rhody Esports Coalition received $10,000 for an electronic sports lab on campus for competitive video games, which will be accessible to all students, staff and faculty. Over the next three years, this funding amount will be allocated annually to the new esports lab, which opened on Oct. 1 in the Memorial Union, according to Esports Club President Nadia Sutyrina. The URI Esports Club is working with the coalition to start this project.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
Tucked away in the University of Rhode Island’s Memorial Union is the gaming club, housing student competitions in console video games, card games and competitive computer games. The club’s first room is adorned with posters and drawings from club members, a wall of board games and a table of gaming laptops. This leads into another small room, which contains various video-game consoles like the Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2s and Xbox 360s.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
Indigenous tribe members spoke about increasing awareness for Indigenous people in a panel discussion hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s Multicultural Student Services Center on Nov. 6. The forum included speakers from the Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes, including Bella Noka, member and tribal elder of the Narragansett, and Mack Scott, director of undergraduate studies and the Native American and Indigenous studies initiative at Brown University.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
From Monday until Nov. 8, all University of Rhode Island undergraduate students can vote in the fall student senate elections, which elects candidates for spring 2025. Students running for office must have declared their candidacy by Friday and are allowed to campaign until Sunday.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
Members of the University of Rhode Island community learned about methods to improve their homes’ energy efficiency and avoid adverse health effects at a lecture on Tuesday. The event, titled “Comfortable, Healthy and Cost Effective: Power of Home Energy Upgrades,” took place in the Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center and was hosted by the university’s Cooperative Extension program. The lecture featured panelists from the Comprehensive Community Action Program, Rhode Island Energy and CLEAResult.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
The University of Rhode Island’s Community First Responder Program is trying to continue the decline in opioid overdose death rates, which said decreased by 7.3% from 2022 to 2023. The CFRP is dedicated to informing and equipping communities throughout New England so they can combat opioid misuse and overdose effectively, according to their website . URI pharmacy professor Anita Jacobson is the director and founder of the program.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
An interactive play on the longest-running syndicated game show on network TV took to the Ryan Center on Friday, allowing local audience members to participate and win prizes in Wheel of Fortune Live. Attendees could register to put their names in a randomly-selected pot for a chance to be participants in the show. These chosen few would have the chance to be picked for the roles of contestants, being the “Vanna White” of the night and even win prizes.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
With the presidential election just around the corner, the University of Rhode Island’s Multicultural Student Services Center and Talent Development Program hosted a community voter registration drive on Sept. 24. The voter drive helped people register to vote and informed people who are already registered to vote of the issues, according to its URI events page . This included teaching students how to update their voting information and learning how to complete mail-in ballots.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
rhodycigar.com | Will Holt
For the past two decades Brian Cardany has been the director of bands at the University of Rhode Island. He instructs the URI marching band, who can be seen at all home football games, open houses and more. They performed twice this year at home games on Aug. 31 and Sept. 14. “I think the band is doing really well this year,” Cardany said. “We’ve had two games already, two performances and it’s been really solid work.
