On May 20th, 2017,  105 Health Studies majors were awarded their Bachelor of Science in Health Studies degrees!  The celebration took place at the Ryan Center and was followed by the graduation ceremony on Mat 22. Congratulations to all our new graduates. We are so proud of your accomplishments! Keep in touch!

Aleia Gardner, the recipient of the Health Studies Excellence Award, is a dedicated scholar with an outstanding academic record.  She has excelled in all her class and graduated with a  near perfect GPA. Aleia is committed to a career to reduce health disparities and improve health care access, especially among individual with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias.  Aleia will be attending […]

Meredith Lemek, a Health Studies major from Richmond, RI, was one of several seniors awarded the Outstanding Contributions to Psychology – Senior Award from the Department of Psychology.

They conducted a cross-sectional study and calculated frequencies and descriptives to describe the study sample and then ran Pearson’s correlations and built hierarchical multiple regressions models to examine associations among mental illness, alcohol use, and sleep quality

The URI volunteers partnered with Habitat for Humanity and other local organizations to build houses destroyed by flooding, work in a food bank, plant trees, and more. This trip was Maya’s third year of being part of an alternative spring break trip with the URI Service Corps, She has previously traveled to New Mexico and South Carolina.

Portia explained that ” the public health impacts could as soon as we built a new stove that emitted little smoke right next to the old one which produced vast amounts of smoke”