Oct. 28, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Vince Lara-Cinisomo in the AHS office of communications spoke recently with Jon Gunderson and other members of the DRES Accessible IT Group. VINCE LARA: Jon, what does the DRES Accessibility IT Group do? JON GUNDERSON: Our mission on campus is to help the university understand the accessibility of the […]
Month: October 2021
Aguiñaga looks at the benefits of dance
Oct. 21, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Participants in ‘BAILAMOS’ intervention improved fitness, social support and quality of life Can dancing slow cognitive decline and improve health of middle-aged and older Latinos? That’s something that KCH Assistant Professor Susan Aguiñaga is seeking to find out. Aguiñaga has a new publication entitled, “BAILAMOS With mHealth Technology! Improving […]
It’s not a Stretch to see future opportunities for this robot
Oct. 18, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Kinesiology and Community Health Professor Wendy Rogers is no stranger to robots. She began working with robots more than two decades ago at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was a professor in the School of Psychology, and director of the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory. It was […]
Husain sees use of brain imaging as vital to studying hearing disorders
Oct. 18, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The main objective is to establish an international center of excellence for hearing research that transforms the field by using artificial intelligence and Big Data to translate research into practical clinical solutions Department of Speech and Hearing Science Professor Fatima Husain received $125,000 in seed grant funding from the […]
McKechnie Family LIFE Home opening a milestone for Wendy Rogers
Oct. 08, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The McKechnie Family LIFE Home is a cutting-edge research center focused on innovations in home environments Even for someone as accomplished as Kinesiology and Community Health Professor Wendy Rogers, the night of Oct. 7 represented a milestone. Rogers has so many appointments and affiliations—she is a Khan Professor of […]