College of Health Sciences launches program in Wakefield The College of Health Sciences has launched an early-intervention program to instill lifelong healthy habits in children, ages 6 to 11, aiming to prevent obesity in adolescent children. Rhode Island Food, Fitness and Fun, a family-based program , launched an 8-week session for families in and around […]

Susan Kaplan ‘has tremendous passion for helping others’ The URI College of Health Sciences honored the career of an alumna who has made a tremendous impact on health care with one of the College’s highest honors during the Distinguished Achievement Awards ceremony on Oct. 5. Susan Hamer Kaplan ’78, M.S. ’80, is a speech and […]

Registration open for November session; Approved PD available The University of Rhode Island Child Development Centers and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies continue to improve the education and care of Rhode Island’s youngest residents as it prepares for another session of its Early Childhood Institute, dedicated to the professional development of early […]

Know Pain or No Gain: A Practitioner’s Playbook for a Biopsychosocial Approach to Musculoskeletal Pain

URI is participating in APTA’s DPT Education Virtual Fair on September 17th, 2019.

The Physical Therapy Department will be hosting an Open House on September 11th, 2019 from 4:30pm-6:30pm.

Professor Phillip Clark leads $3.75 million project to train health care workforce A University of Rhode Island professor has been awarded a $3.75 million federal grant to improve health services for older adults. And it couldn’t come at a more crucial time as Rhode Island has the highest percentage of adults 85 and older in […]

The preschoolers at the URI Child Development Center learned about hydroponics recently thanks to a visit and generous donation from Dr. Soni Pradhanang, from URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences. The children planted lettuce seeds and hope to harvest lettuce for school snacks in the fall. Hands-on, project-based learning experiences, such as gardening, […]

Love it or hate it, most people are familiar with their BMI (body mass index) score. Yet experts agree that the BMI is lacking when it comes to providing an accurate overall picture of health and fitness.

Professors at the University of Rhode Island’s new Collaborative Cognitive Neuroscience Lab are partnering with research scientists, Julia Irwin, Ph.D., and Nicole Landi, Ph.D., at Haskins Laboratories to better understand how children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) learn language.