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04/03/08 - The University of Rhode Island is not a party school. It is not a "safety school." It is a quality research institution with world-class faculty and award-winning students. Or so is the image of the school that URI officials hope to put forward in a new branding effort for the university, a comprehensive advertising campaign that will begin this fall.
04/03/08 - Someone's race and ethnicity has a correlation to their health, according to an officer of the American Psychological Association. Norman Anderson, the chief executive officer of the American Psychological Association, spoke to about 40 people about these racial and ethnic health disparities at yesterday's Psychology Department Colloquium in the Multicultural Center.
04/03/08 - For some Americans, it's elephants and snake charmers that come to mind when thinking about India. And although some Indians do ride camels or walk on hot coals, these stereotypes are fading fast as India continues its emergence as an economic superpower.
04/03/08 - When M. Beverly Swan attended the University of Rhode Island as an undergraduate, it was a much stricter place. Students had to take Saturday classes and female students were not allowed to wear pants to class or the dining halls. "We would wear slacks rolled up under a trench coat to the dining hall," she said.
04/03/08 - At its first meeting, the recently elected Student Senate heard a proposal that would scrap the chief operations officer position. A bill that would alter the senate bylaws was introduced to dispose a job that has been called unnecessary by some senators.
04/03/08 - John Farley doesn't want you to get the wrong idea about energy in Rhode Island. Farley, who spoke yesterday at the University of Rhode Island's Coastal Institute, is executive director of The Energy Council of Rhode Island, or TEC-RI, a private nonprofit consortium of businesses and manufacturers.
