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.

When the history of modern psychology is written, James Prochaska‘s name will top the list of those who shaped how we think about change itself, especially how we change the unhealthy behaviors of large populations.

Determined to stop the epidemic of childhood obesity, kinesiology professor Emily Clapham is leading a fitness transformation and taking the “new” physical education to the next generation of PE teachers.

Jennifer Audette, assistant professor of physical therapy, has created a program in Guatemala that helps children and teenagers with physical and cognitive challenges, and exposes her students to a different culture.

Paula Kleniewski has been passionate about golf since she was seven years old. So when she became a doctor of physical therapy student at URI, she found a creative way to make her favorite sport part of her studies.