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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The University of Rhode Island College of Health Sciences aims to improve the overall health of the campus community and beyond.
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Project aims to improve diet quality of preschool children
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Students from all three colleges in the Academic Health Collaborative got some hands-on training while senior citizens from the community gained some valuable health information during the Senior Health and Wellness Program at Independence Square Tuesday.
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Adapted exercise sessions for people with disabilities or exceptionalities are not new, but the University of Rhode Island Xtreme Inclusion program has raised the bar across several measures.
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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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Fatima Tobar didn’t wait for opportunity to come knocking; she knocked first. As a freshman, she entered the Providence office of the URI Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (URI SNAP-Ed) and asked if she could volunteer doing community outreach.
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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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As classes come to an end, the URI College of Health Sciences wrapped up the school year April 30 with the annual College faculty and staff awards during a ceremony at the 95 Club on Upper College Road. Dean Gary Liguori and Associate Deans Deb Riebe and Brian Quilliam joined the college’s department heads in […]
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