“Brainstorming” is not a strong enough word to describe the intense activity that defined HealthHacks RI 2016, the health and wellness hack-a-thon held at the University of Rhode Island earlier this month. “Brain-typhooning” might be a better description, given the energy and creativity in evidence at URI’s Makerspace—a new resource of high-tech tools for collaborative thinking […]

Michelle Flippin, an assistant professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders, recently received a $10,000 grant from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation to examine how fathers care for children with autism spectrum disorder.

URI Psychology major Kyle Nacci’s interests led him to found a campus group called Big Thinkers, which concentrates on helping students discover their purpose. The group evolved into Thrive Academy, and has now spread to eight other schools.

URI physical therapy and engineering students delivered early Christmas presents to children with limited mobility: motorized toy cars altered to fit their needs.

Professor Phillip Clark has been touting an integrated approach to health care since the 1980s. It seems that now, everyone else is finally getting on board.

Kinesiology lecturer Karie Orendorff leads a summer program where students spend 10 days teaching math, reading, writing, and physical education to children, ages 3 to 12, in Tanzania’s Ekenywa Valley region.

As many as 35 percent of college-age students who don’t have ADHD take stimulants and other ADHD medications, thinking it will improve their academic performance. It’s a dangerous practice that worries psychology professor Lisa Weyandt, author of three books on ADHD and recipient of several research awards.

Every week, about 20 people living with Parkinson’s disease spend an hour with Leslie Mahler, Associate Professor of Communicative Disorders, and her graduate students in a clinical support group aimed at helping the patients overcome the speech disorders that typically result from the disease.

There’s been an enormous climate change in recent years — a shift in social climate affecting the lives and well being of all people, especially those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. This changing climate is the backdrop for Professor Annemarie Vaccaro’s work.

News media around the world have really bitten into URI Professor Kathleen Melanson’s ideas about the connection between speed and obesity. The speed of eating that is.