SAFETY CLASSES: A 'Herculean effort' underway at URI to prepare for safest possible September reopening

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Four campuses in four different parts of the state. Three-hundred-twenty-one buildings totaling 5.4 million square feet of space. Roughly 20,000 people a day expected. Most spread across a main campus of 1,200 acres. Such is the magnitude of the task facing the University of Rhode Island employees charged with ensuring safety as the school readies to reopen, a half year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Like other schools at all levels around the state, URI shifted to distance learning in March...