Money Skills for Life: Teaching college students financial basics

URI Department of Human Development and Family Studies offers courses in personal finance When considering finance courses at the university level, one usually envisions complex classes on banking, corporate finance, investments, the stock market and hedge funds. Balancing a checkbook, filing personal income taxes, examining costs and benefits of student loans or calculating retirement needs […]

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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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URI Wellness Conference to feature James Prochaska, behavior change pioneer, and international population health experts

KINGSTON, R.I., May 24, 2018 —The University of Rhode Island will mark important milestones in the institution’s contributions to physical and mental health with a two-day event in September featuring world-renowned Professor of Psychology James Prochaska as well as other leading experts in population health and behavior change.

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Nutrition, Kinesiology major to deliver Health Sciences commencement address

Annie Clarkin, a Cranston native, will speak at college graduation ceremony May 19 Urging her classmates to “be the contributors of change,” Kinesiology and Nutrition double-major Annie Clarkin will deliver the College of Health Sciences commencement address during graduation weekend on May 19. Clarkin was chosen partly to honor the selfless dedication she has shown […]

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