April 29, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The Undergraduate Research Symposium returned to the Illini Union this year. Sixty-five students representing all five undergraduate majors in the College of Applied Health Sciences made presentations about their work at the campus-wide 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium. It was the largest contingent of AHS students to take part in […]
Month: April 2022
Nutrition has many meanings for MPH student Drake Materre
June 01, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Drake Materre credits his mother for his introduction to (and interest in) nutrition Master of Public Health student Drake Materre is a man of many interests: education, politics, music, organizing, religion. But the one probably closest to his heart is nutrition. Except when Materre thinks about nutrition, it means […]
Geiger wants to address rural urban disparity
May 02, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo In some rural counties of Illinois, nearly half of sampled homes with private wells had dangerous lead levels When KCH Assistant Professor Sarah Geiger received a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to study private water wells, her primary focus was finding a way […]
SHS World Voice Day shows importance of interaction between voice and acoustic environment
April 25, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo This study demonstrates that singers also tend to adjust their vocal production when in different spaces Faculty from the Dept. of Speech and Hearing Science were involved in the planning and execution of World Voice Day, a symposium designed to build awareness of the human voice. Researchers from SHS—including […]
The future is filled with hope, Chittenden Symposium speakers say
April 18, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The focus of the Chittenden Symposium was on human factors in health technology, with the goal of advancing a research agenda. But according to Kinesiology and Community Health Professor Wendy Rogers, the roadmap needs to first be drawn. Rogers was part of the final presentation on April 13 of […]
2022 AHS Distinguished Lecturer Series—Dr. Ingrid E. Schneider
April 13, 2022 | AHS Staff Watch Ingrid Schneider’s talk on COVID-constrained leisure. Dr. Ingrid E. Schneider, Ph.D.Professor, University of Minnesota“Wrangling the waves: Coping with COVID-Constrained Leisure and its Impacts on Leisure-Time Physical Activity”Recorded Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Related news
Distinguished Lecturer: Green Spaces are Essential to Good Health
April 07, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Research has shown that leisure time physical activity in outdoor spaces has more positive health benefits than physical activity done indoors. Fully one-third of the U.S. population, however, has no access to green spaces, nor to the associated health benefits. These were among the findings shared during the 2022 […]
Student Profile: Ariel Freehill
April 03, 2022 | AHS Staff What kept you busy outside of your coursework? I love doing projects, so I spent a lot of time doing those. I was able to even refurbish a 100-year-old round dining room table, and I love how it turned out. I also enjoyed having lazy days with my husband and my dog when I […]