Congratulations! HDF Professors, Jing Xiao and Nilton Porto’s paper “Consumer Financial Education and Financial Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Financial Capability” has been selected to win the NEFE Award for the 2016 ACCI conference. The award will be presented at the conference.
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Child Development Center – Full RIDE CECE
The Child Development Center has received their official certificates of FULL RIDE CECE approval for both classrooms. With the necessary playground repairs completed and verified, and supporting documentation reviewed, they have now transitioned from our provisional/full approval designation to fully approved.
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KINGSTON, R.I., Oct. 30, 2015 – It all started with a leaf floating in a puddle. The boy was enchanted by it, and that joy enchanted Sue Warford. She tossed aside her ambition to become a child psychologist and settled instead on nurturing that wonder in a classroom. Read More
Continue reading "Playground at URI Child Development Center dedicated to former director, Sue Warford"Professor Nilton Porto is featured in WalletHub’s study about Auto Financing.
On a scale of 1 (an emphatic no) to 10 (an emphatic yes), is this a good time of year to buy a car? I would give it an 8 for two reasons. First, this is the time that dealers are starting to receive next year’s inventory and want to sell the current year models. […]
Continue reading "Professor Nilton Porto is featured in WalletHub’s study about Auto Financing."Professor Brasher has an op-ed for the Providence Journal on marriage changing with the times
In his Aug. 8 Commentary piece (“Altering the marriage ‘ecosystem’), Mark Regnerus claims the legalization of same-sex marriage will “alter the marriage ecosystem.” The result? Children suffer, the birth rate falls, and government infiltrates family life. Regnerus makes several unfounded assumptions about the meaning and purpose of marriage and family. We want to offer […]
Continue reading "Professor Brasher has an op-ed for the Providence Journal on marriage changing with the times"Dr. Hyunjin Kim’s paper selected as Best Paper for 2014 by ATEA
Taylor & Francis / ATEA Best Paper Award 2014 committee selected Dr. Hyunjin Kim’s paper published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (APJTE: SSCI journal) titled: Pre-service teachers’ motivation, sense of teaching efficacy, and expectation of reality shock as the best paper of 2014. The award was recognized during the ATEA Annual Conference in Darwin (July 7-10, 2015) in Australia.
Continue reading "Dr. Hyunjin Kim’s paper selected as Best Paper for 2014 by ATEA"Assistant Professor Skye Leedahl chosen as a Presidential Faculty Fellow by the Rhode Island Campus Compact
Assistant Professor Skye Leedahl was chosen as a Presidential Faculty Fellow by the Rhode Island Campus Compact. Dr. Leedahl holds a joint appointment in Human Development & Family Science and Political Science. A consortium of all 11 institutes of Higher Education, The RI Campus Compact works to increase the engagement of students, faculty and staff […]
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Not long ago, Tina Wambolt was drinking 24 beers a day and so depressed she could barely get off the sofa, much less leave her house. Next month, the 40-year-old West Warwick resident will graduate from the University of Rhode Island’s Providence campus with a bachelor’s degree in human development and family science, with a […]
Continue reading "Tina Wambolt – Human Development & Family Science"Susan Warford, CDC Director is the 2015 APAW Woman of the Year
Sue Warford is the 2015 APAW Woman of the Year. APAW is a professional association at the University of Rhode Island and each year selects an outstanding woman through a nomination process. The award is given in recognition of a woman’s commitment to “effect and ensure that professional woman at URI are accorded, just and […]
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HDF professor and expert in outcomes research, Dr. Jacqueline Sparks, was recently a keynote presenter at the conference of Psycho-Therapeutic Alternatives to Medication held in Baton Rouge, LA. Science writer and author, Robert Whitaker was the other keynote speaker at the conference. He is author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and […]
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