Women’s tennis team earns all-academic honors

Calendar of Events

• Teach-in for justice and mercy: Slavery in Colonial Rhode Island
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 10:00am

  Enslaved African Americans in colonial Rhode Island lived and worked, and even sometimes prayed and played, next to their white masters, yet they had few if any basic human and civil rights....
• MLK's sermons and speeches
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

  Our Lady of Mercy Chapel

  Visit the chapel to hear select sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. and spend some time listening to his most challenging and encouraging words. Be inspired in the work of justice and...
• Community read and discussion: Just Mercy
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 4:00pm

  Join the Inclusive Reading Club for a discussion of Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy,” an unforgettable true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us and a clarion call to end mass...
• eSports open house
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 4:00pm to 8:00pm

  Gerety Hall garden level

  Staff members from the Office of Information Technology will be on hand to introduce students to the state-of-the-art gaming equipment and provide assistance with the technology featured at the...
• Lecture and dialogue: Racial and Economic Disparities in a Pandemic
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 7:00pm

  Join Ana Novais, deputy director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, for a lecture and dialogue around racial and economic disparities as they relate to the coronavirus pandemic. Novais...
• Orientation Leader information session
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 7:00pm

  Orientation leaders are positive role models that help new students transition to the University community. As one of the first points of contact for new students, Orientation leaders are...
• Vigil for nonviolence
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 5:30pm

  Our Lady of Mercy Chapel

  Join the Mercy Center for Spiritual Life in remembering the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. as we seek to bend the arch of the moral universe towards justice. “Nonviolence is a...
• Teach-in for justice and mercy: Environmental Justice
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 5:15pm

  Dr. Craig Condella, professor and chairman in the Department of Philosophy, will open his course Environmental Justice to the wider campus and local community as part of the MLK Week teach-in...
• Teach-in for justice and mercy: Ethical and Legal Issues in Sports
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 3:45pm

  Jody Mooradian, director of athletics and adjunct professor in the Department of Business and Economics, will open her course Ethical and Legal Issues in Sports to the wider campus and local...
• Teach-in for justice and mercy: Roots of Blues
  Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 2:15pm

  Dr. Donald St. Jean, associate professor in the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance, will open his course Roots of Blues to the wider campus and local community as part of the MLK Week teach-...