{"id":101082,"date":"2025-03-18T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=101082"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:03:47","slug":"sights-and-sounds-milestone-celebration-honors-uri-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/sights-and-sounds-milestone-celebration-honors-uri-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sights and sounds: Milestone celebration honors URI employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card   right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/uri-honors-employees-years-of-service-with-milestone-celebration\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/Employee-2-scaled.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>URI Employee Milestone Celebration<\/h2><p>The University of Rhode Island recently honored 150 staff and faculty members for their years of URI service at the second annual Employee Milestone Celebration in the Memorial Union Ballroom.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">view the gallery<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 18, 2025 \u2013\u00a0URI President Marc Parlange, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Wolfe, Vice President for Human Resources Becky Hill and\u2014of course\u2014Rhody the Ram were among those who gathered recently for a celebration to honor staff and faculty members for their years of service to the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the community came from far and wide for URI&#8217;s second annual Employee Milestone Celebration in the Memorial Union Ballroom to say thank you to 150 faculty and staff members for making the university such an incredible place to study, teach, research and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You all are what makes URI so special,&#8221; said Parlange. &#8220;I am so proud of each and every one of you. Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oVWerqs84Ng\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Employee Milestone Celebration Honors URI Employees\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oVWerqs84Ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 18, 2025 \u2013\u00a0URI President Marc Parlange, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Wolfe, Vice President for Human Resources Becky Hill and\u2014of course\u2014Rhody the Ram were among those who gathered recently for a celebration to honor staff and faculty members for their years of service to the University. Members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":101014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101097,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101082\/revisions\/101097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}