Category: News

Flashback in Friartown: A History of PC’s Housing Over the Years

by Max Waite ’21 News Staff Since its doors opened in 1917, Providence College has undergone incredible changes across the board, which has made it stand out as one of the top colleges in the competitive northeast region.  In particular, Friartown’s residence halls have all undergone changes, as more buildings have either been upgraded or […]

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Lions, and Friars, and Bears, Oh My!: BOP Hosts ProvapaZOO for PC Community

by Hannah Langley ’21 News Co-Editor For nearly ten years, Providence College’s Board of Programmers (BOP) has hosted a day full of fun and activities in early September known as Provapalooza. This year, BOP’s social committee decided to change things up by hosting ProvapaZOO, which had the same feel and spirit of the original event, […]

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Never Too Early to Consider Careers: Business Professors Give Advice on Prepping for Career EXPO

by Matthew Mazzella ’20 News Staff Sept. 25 marks the annual Providence College Career EXPO, held for students to network with recruiters looking to add talented Friars to their businesses. This is a highly anticipated event on campus, as students look to take the next step in their careers by making lasting impact on recruiters […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: Devastating Destruction Caused by Hurricane Dorian

by Maura Campbell ’22 News Staff In the weeks before its landfall, Hurricane Dorian had been predicted to cause large amounts of damage to the Bahamas and areas of the southeastern United States.  Its nature as a slow-moving hurricane created the potential for huge destruction, as it was predicted to remain in certain areas for […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: EEE Outbreak Wreaks Havoc in New England

by Kyle Burgess ’21 News Co-Editor In an email addressed to the Providence College community on Sept. 3, Vice President for Student Affairs Kristine Goodwin relayed an announcement from the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) confirming the first human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis within the state in nearly a decade.  While more commonly […]

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Beginning to See the Light(houses): PC Rings in New Academic School Year with Convocation Ceremony

Kyle Burgess ’21 News Co-Editor An assembly of students and faculty gathered in Peterson Recreation Center on Monday, August 26 to celebrate the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year during the annual Providence College Academic Convocation.  The students, many of them first-year undergraduates who had just undergone a full weekend of freshman orientation activities, looked […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: World Reacts to Recent Burnings in the Amazon Rainforest

Thomas Edwards ’20 News Staff For nearly a month, the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest in the world, has had several thousand wildfires burning through it.  Wildfires are generally common in the Amazon during the dry season, which usually runs from August through mid-November. However, according to the data from Brazil’s National Space Research Institute […]

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Science After-Hours: Friars Conduct Summer Resarch Projects on PC Campus

Alexandra Huzyk ’20 News Staff Throughout the summer of 2019, a variety of different science departments at Providence College conducted multiple research projects.  A few areas of concentration included molecular and evolutionary biology, genetics, neurobiology, population and conservation biology, cancer cell metabolism, stem cell biology, and computational organic chemistry. In the biology department, Alexis Rabbitt […]

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Featured Friar: Dan Clark ’20

Brian Garvey ’20 News Staff Dan Clark ’20 is making the most of everything the Providence College campus has to offer.  Originally from Central New York, Clark always thought he would be heading up to SUNY Buffalo after high school. In fact, the only other school that he applied to was PC. After one visit […]

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In Memoriam: Paul Shanley

by Hannah Langley ’21 News Editor On Monday, August 19, 2019 Paul Shanley, twin brother of Fr. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., passed away at the age of 61 after a several month-long battle with a rare form of bone cancer. Shanley, a graduate of Roger Williams University, earned his B.S. in criminal justice and Master’s […]

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