Advancing Neurodiversity and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
April 2, 2025, All Day Virtual Event
The 2025 World Autism Awareness Day Observance, under the theme “Advancing Neurodiversity and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, highlights the intersection between neurodiversity and global sustainability efforts, showcasing how inclusive policies and practices can drive positive change for autistic individuals worldwide and contribute to the achievement of the SDGs.
Democracy and Populist Rage in Recent American History
April 3, 2025 4-5 p.m., Higgins Welcome Center, Hope Room or Online Livestream
This is the fourth spring semester event by the Center for the Humanities and their year long lecture series, Sustaining Democracy, and the 2025 Annual Humanities Festival. Jefferson Cowie’s work in social and political history focuses on how class, inequality, and labor shape American politics and culture. The Nation magazine described him as “one of our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience.” His most recent book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, won the Pulitzer Prize for History and tells the tale of generations of local fights against the federal government that prop up a particular version of American freedom: the freedom to oppress others.
Take Back the Night-Presentation and Luminary Lighting
April 9, 2025, 5-7 p.m., URI Memorial Union Building, Entrance Ramp
TBTN events raise awareness, empower survivors, and reinforce a community’s commitment to ending sexual violence. Join the URI Women’s Center and URI VPAS for the URI TBTN event in the Memorial Union for a speaker presentation, a luminary lighting, information, resources, giveaways and light refreshments. Let’s support survivors.
2025 Inclusive Excellence Awards
April 10, 2025 5-8 p.m., Memorial Union Ballroom
The Inclusive Excellence Awards honor undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the University who have been committed to demonstrating and promoting inclusion at URI in the areas of community leadership, inclusive teaching, and service.
Find more events, trainings, and gatherings on and off campus on the CBE Google calendar!