Aug. 14, 2025 | AHS Staff Seven AHS faculty received promotions for the 2025-26 academic year Seven faculty at the College of Applied Health Sciences received promotions prior to the 2025-26 Academic Year. Here are their new faculty titles. Professor Nicholas Burd, Health and Kinesiology Andiara Schwingel, Health and Kinesiology Associate Professor Susan Aguiñaga, Health […]
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HK professors work with Chicago Lighthouse on a home-based exercise program for low-vision and blind adults
Dec. 18, 2023 | Bruce Adams Kinesiology faculty partner with Chicago’s service organization for the blind How can accessible, home-based exercise programs be created for low-vision and blind adults? A team from the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the College of Applied Health Sciences will begin collaboration with the Chicago Lighthouse in the […]
KCH researchers get grant to help Community Health Workers
Dec. 06, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Community Health Workers, or CHWs, are an underrecognized layer of the health care system For Department of Kinesiology and Community Health researchers Andiara Schwingel and Susan Aguiñaga, the concept of helping place Community Health Workers has a personal meaning. Schwingel, a KCH associate professor, and Aguiñaga, an assistant professor […]
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 […]