10/11/07 - Poets Ada Limon and Michael Cirelli read selections of their poetry last night at the second installment of the URI English department's Read/Write program in Independence Hall. Limon explored memories of her brother and friends through her poems while Cirelli's poetry focused on hip-hop culture and romance.
10/11/07 - In late July, Evan Preisser, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island's College of the Environment and Life Sciences, received a $500,000 grant to study the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid.