Faculty, staff and graduate students from a broad range of disciplines at the University of Rhode Island are taking on one of society’s most vexing health challenges: how to prevent or slow the onset of dementia through changes in diet and exercise.
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CoreMechanics engages URI to research viability of musculoskeletal wellness device
Imagine donning a vest every day that could strengthen your core, improve your posture and align your joints — allowing you to maintain your health or recover from an injury. CoreMechanics LLC of Narragansett envisions just such a device and has called on experts from three colleges at the University of Rhode Island to help make it […]
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Shampoo makes our hair smell good, but at a price. Sweet-smelling tresses bring polluted waterways.
Continue reading "Commencement 2017: URI graduate excels in research of pollutants in lakes, oceans"University of Rhode Island, W. Kingston Elementary School pioneer research into the effects of movement on learning
The second-graders at West Kingston Elementary School are models of scholarly focus, reading silently and intently. At the same time, they wobble in their seats, pedal their legs under their desks or sway on balance boards.
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A senior nursing student from the University of Rhode Island has been awarded a pediatric oncology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital through The Susan D. Flynn Oncology Nursing Fellowship Program.
Continue reading "URI nursing student selected for prestigious Flynn Fellowship"URI professor awarded $3 million USAID grant to study coral reef fisheries in Indonesia
Food security is a serious concern in Indonesia, where delicate coral reef ecosystems provide fish and livelihood for over three million fishermen. But their catch is declining with many fisheries being overexploited and management of the fishery needs improvement.
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When University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley and many other university officials congregated outside Autumn Guillotte’s history class on Monday afternoon, she had no idea that she was soon to be the center of attention. The faculty and administrators were there to announce that Guillotte had been awarded a $30,000 Truman Scholarship, one […]
Continue reading "URI student awarded prestigious Truman Scholarship, receives $30,000 for graduate study"Three URI grad students win research grants from The Nature Conservancy
Three doctoral students at the University of Rhode Island have been selected to receive research grants from The Nature Conservancy and URI’s Coastal Institute for research projects that advance the conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems.
Continue reading "Three URI grad students win research grants from The Nature Conservancy"URI professor launches online journal about sexual exploitation, violence, slavery
Sexual exploitation and violence are rampant throughout the world, and academics are rightly pushing the issue into the public eye through their research and articles.
Continue reading "URI professor launches online journal about sexual exploitation, violence, slavery"Two URI graduate students awarded research fellowships from National Science Foundation
Two University of Rhode Island doctoral students have been awarded prestigious fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowships Program.
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