Health
Mighty Pack Program: On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need
A graduate student project develops into a countywide program to grow and fill backpacks with healthy foods.
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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Professor Says Money Really Cannot Buy Happiness
If money doesn't make us happy, what does? A ¹ú²úÂ×Àí professor has a suggestion.
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Cancer Connects Two Pilots, a Decade Apart and a Mile High
Matthew Dougard and Niki Kukwa never met, but they made a connection high above the clouds, drawn together by the will to fight and a passion to fly.
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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Exercise Science Professor Develops Treatment Bike for Parkinson’s Patients
Physical therapy is usually a component of treatment for patients of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative and motor system disorders. Now, a ¹ú²úÂ×Àí professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Services has designed a piece of equipment that serves that purpose…
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Public Relations Major Addresses Congressional Leaders ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Improving Foster Care System For Children
For the second time in as many years, Keri Richmond took her call for improving the foster care system to the nation's leaders in Washington D.C. The senior public relations major recently participated in Foster Youth Shadow Day as part of Foster …
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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Partners With the Jed Foundation to Assess and Enhance University’s Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Programming
¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Division of Student Affairs has partnered with the Jed Foundation Health Matters Campus Program, which is designed to help colleges and universities assess and enhance mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention programming. During the four-year partnershi…
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Life-Changing Event Inspires ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases
In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…
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¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Public Health Receives National Accreditation
¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Public Health has received accreditation from the Board of Councilors of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The five-year span is the maximum term the college could have achieved as a first-time applicant. To earn the accreditation, the college m…
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Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Education, Health and Human Services
Mark Kretovics, Ph.D., associate professor of higher education administration and student personnel at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí and a resident of Kent, Ohio, has been named interim dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2015. Todd Diacon, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s seni…
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Preventing Falls: ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Symposium Examines How to Keep Older Adults Healthy
Margaret P. Calkins, Ph.D., an architectural researcher at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, is particularly attuned to the needs of older adults whose eyesight or balance may be poor or who may live with dementia. Calkins, who has consulted for many healthcare institutions and elderly housing communities, joi…
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