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IN EARLY 2020, the University of Rhode Island opened Brookside Hall, pictured, a $94 million new residence hall on campus. URI on Wednesday announced it plans to build several new residence halls to provide more than 1,100 additional beds for undergraduate and graduate students living on campus. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI to build new additional on-campus residence halls

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – More on-campus student housing is coming to the University of Rhode Island. The university announced Wednesday that it plans to construct several...
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY students have a yoga session on campus during the spring. Colleges are now starting to focus on mental health and socialization recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

Mental health, socialization recovery now a focus on college campuses post-COVID

PROVIDENCE – Buying textbooks, moving boxes of personal items into dorms, getting to know roommates and classmates, and administrators formally welcoming back students and...
LOCAL COLLEGES are currently strongly recommending students and employees to get COVID-19 booster shots, and currently vetting as to whether or not to mandate them on campus. / AP FILE PHOTO/MARY ALTAFFER

Local colleges taking wait-and-see approach on mandating booster vaccines

PROVIDENCE – In late summer, just before students returned to local college campuses for the new academic year, the schools made it clear that...

URI, UMass Dartmouth latest local colleges to develop COVID-19 data hubs

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Two local state colleges have recently created their own COVID-19 data hubs to inform their campus communities of the current situations...
HELPING HAND: Brown University graduate student Kyle Zhang has helped to coordinate an initiative to raise funds to purchase medical supplies that will be sent to China to assist hospitals that are dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. universities take steps to ease coronavirus fears

The epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China is thousands of miles away from Rhode Island, but its impact is being felt locally, particularly...
DIALOGUING: Robert Samuels, director of the University of Rhode Island counseling center, talks with Ashley O’Hearn, a graduate student trainee at the center. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Students’ mental health a concern for colleges

Leaving home for what may be the first time and settling into an apartment or dormitory without parents or siblings can be exhilarating for...
University of Rhode Island

URI Health Services maintains full accreditation

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island recently announced that the university’s Dr. Pauline B. Wood Health Services earned The Joint Commission’s Gold...
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