Nutrition professor to help develop national healthy eating guidelines

Alison Tovar will serve on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation panel to develop healthy eating behaviors among children URI College of Health Sciences Professor Alison Tovar will help create national guidelines for developing healthy eating behaviors among young children after she was invited to serve on the Healthy Eating Research panel, a national program of the […]

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Older adults may be next wave of college students

URI professor serves on AARP roundtable to create framework for intergenerational education Higher education isn’t only for those at the cusp of their careers, trying to establish themselves in a particular profession. Increasingly, older adults finished with their careers are interested returning to the classroom, and a university of Rhode Island professor recently served on […]

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URI team’s paper on American Indian adolescent opioid misuse to be published nationally

Manuscript by psychology department research team to run in national journal ‘Drug and Alcohol Dependence’ American Indian adolescents are more likely to misuse heroin and other opioids, and are five times more likely to die from the misuse than non-American Indians, necessitating new forms of interventions to help prevent opioid misuse among the American Indian […]

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Apple orchard trip about more than fun for URI preschoolers

Child Development Center students pick 140 pounds of fruit to support Rhody Outpost, food-insecure residents Preschoolers in the URI Child Development Centers had fun on the farm while helping food insecure members of the community and learning the value of community service. The URI students recently visited the apple orchard at URI’s East Farm and […]

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Child Development Center students get down in the mud for educational play

CDC installs mud kitchen for sensory, cognitive development, thanks to $1,000 grant Young students in the URI Child Development Centers can “get elbow deep in mud” while developing sensory perception, motor skills, math skills and more, thanks to a new mud kitchen in the facility’s playground, funded by a $1,000 grant from the Local Initiatives […]

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Student’s research reveals prevalence of opioid misuse on campus

Psychology major Emily Shepard’s study wins award at research showcase About 13 percent of college students acknowledge having misused opioids at some point in their lives, having begun taking the prescription medication either for pain management or for recreation, a URI College of Health Sciences student’s recent study has found. Psychology major Emily Shepard combined […]

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URI researchers study how children with autism learn language

Professors at the University of Rhode Island’s new Collaborative Cognitive Neuroscience Lab are partnering with Connecticut’s Haskins Laboratories to better understand how children with autism spectrum disorder learn language. Specifically, researchers will study how children with autism integrate visual information with what they hear compared to their typically developing peers and how that affects their […]

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