February 28, 2022 | AHS Staff The College of Applied Health Sciences has awarded eleven faculty, staff, and students college awards for excellence. Three individuals received campus-level awards. All recipients will be honored at the Spring College Meeting in May. AHS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award: FacultyCampus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate TeachingAssociate Professor Andiara […]
Month: February 2022
MS-HT’s Class of 2021: Tia King
March 11, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The first graduates of the Master of Science in Health Technology program in the College of Applied Health Sciences all landed jobs within four months. We spoke to some of them about why they picked MS-HT, how MS-HT helped them decide on their career, and what they most enjoyed […]
MS-HT’s Class of 2021: Marlene Robles Granda
Feb. 11, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The first graduates of the Master of Science in Health Technology program in the College of Applied Health Sciences all landed jobs within four months. We spoke to some of them about why they picked MS-HT, how MS-HT helped them decide on their career, and what they most enjoyed […]
Students show creativity in robot competition
Feb. 11, 2022 | Anna Flanagan Students in the Grainger College of Engineering, Gies College of Business, and College of Applied Health Sciences emerged victorious in the Stretch Robot Pitch Competition sponsored by TechSAge in collaboration with Hello Robot and P&G. A collaboration between the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, […]
Community Health student encourages Illinois governor to continue education investment
Feb. 09, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Community Health senior urges Governor Pritzker to sustain education funding Community Health senior Hadiya Jagroop’s grandmother once told her, “Education is the key to success.” But when the Guyana-born Jagroop moved to Oakwood, Ill., when she was 10, she knew “right away acquiring the dream was not going to […]
Carmen Rossi’s latest gift gives students a chance to forge bonds
Feb. 07, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Carmen Rossi has pledged $250,000 over a five-year period to the RST Domestic Site Tour Fund Lawyer, entrepreneur and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate Carmen Rossi has long been a believer in the importance of charitable works. Rossi, who earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees at Illinois—the master’s in […]
Alumni Spotlight—Megan Gaseor
Feb. 15, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Alumni of the College of Applied Health Sciences have myriad career options thanks to the tremendous diversity of programs. We periodically will put the spotlight on an alum to find out what they’re doing now, what experiences they had and what AHS means to them. This week, we talk […]