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Arts center sparks creativity, complaints

Off the main entrance looms the work of famous Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. A student's hiking journey is memorialized on the walls upstairs. And in the basement, a virtual chef can make you a pizza modeled after the globe. Every once in a while, he is shot dead.


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Biologists, economists unite over fisheries

Since her first visit to Mexico's Gulf of California in 1996, Heather Leslie, assistant professor of environmental studies, has seen the fish stock decline first-hand. The gulf, which supplies more than half of Mexico's seafood and three-fourths of its shrimp, is changing rapidly.


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Masturbator provokes anxiety on John Street

Corrections appended. They do not know his name, but some students have had disturbingly close encounters with him. He often comes up in conversation and has become the subject of jokes and songs. The man, an infamous naked masturbator, has been spotted in the yards of at least three off-campus student ...


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Lagos urges higher taxes for Latin America

Former Chilean president and Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos addressed a packed Joukowsky Forum last night about the "two epochal changes" facing Latin America ­­— income distribution inequalities and a rapidly growing middle class — as it emerges relatively unscathed from the 2008 ...


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Nanomaterials studies advance cancer research

Behind the purple doors of a sixth-floor Barus and Holley Lab, Thomas Webster, associate professor of engineering, works small but thinks big. His work with nanomaterials, tiny devices implanted into the human body, has led to a potential breakthrough in cancer research.


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Landline users not ready to be put on hold

Only 200 students have activated their free voicemail boxes this year, though around 4,000 are eligible to do so, said Kathy D'Aguanno, director of finance and administration for Computing and Information Services. Individual voicemail accounts are provided to each student living on campus through their ...


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Police fight to contain partying students

Over a dozen police officers and four ambulances arrived at a University of Rhode Island fraternity party in South Kingston Thursday night when 500 people surrounded a fight that spread into the street.


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Drive-in: More food trucks hit College Hill streets

Students tired of eating dinner at the Sharpe Refectory or in need a late-night snack are more likely than ever to find a food truck nearby to fill their stomachs. In addition to staples such as Mama Kim's, the campus now hosts a number of new trucks whose options are not limited to food. Mijos, which ...


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R.I. undocumented students' tuition changed

Following many hours of heated public debate Monday night, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education voted unanimously to allow undocumented students in Rhode Island to pay in-state tuition to attend public colleges and universities. The change will go into effect for the 2012 fall semester. ...


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Average statewide SAT scores drop

Average SAT scores for public school seniors in Rhode Island — and across the country — dropped this year, but the lower scores are not a reflection of intelligence, experts are saying.


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Achebe joins Africana writers in historic panel

African music percolated with excited chatter as a crowd waited to hear Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe kick off the Department of Africana Studies 2011-12 Conversations in Africana Writing Series Monday. Achebe and other authors were featured in a panel titled "Voice and Memory in the Poetic ...



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