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.

The Project is a landmark effort, developed by researchers at URI to highlight how health and well-being are influenced by where we live and work. It provides population and health data to Rhode Island researchers, policymakers, educators, and all current and future Rhode Island residents.

University of Rhode Island junior Lotte Black, a kinesiology major, finished fourth out of 12 runners at the NCAA Championship in the 1500 meter final on Saturday. Black broke the record she previously set two days ago, crossing the finish line in 4:13.02. It is her ninth school record she has broken in her junior campaign. […]

The Human Development and Family Studies professor passed away recently at age 95 George T. Fitzelle Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of HDF, died on March 4, 2019 at the age of 95. George was a World War II veteran, having served in the U.S. Army as a combat infantryman in Europe. After the war, he attended […]