April 01, 2024 | Ethan Simmons Stephanie Voss’s research at the College of Applied Health Sciences looks at how might yoga be used to manage lasting pain To doctoral candidate Stephanie Voss, chronic pain treatment and yoga have more in common than we think. Voss, now in her third year of a kinesiology Ph.D program […]
Month: May 2025
RST Ph.D. student helps student-athletes find belonging, in and out of his research
Dec. 10, 2024 | Ethan Simmons Solomon Siskind is investigating what it’s like to be a Black student-athlete at a predominantly white institution and how being part of a racial affinity group affects their life on campush Solomon Siskind is living a double life at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—two lives that are finely intertwined. […]
AHS program trains—and pays for—skilled speech-language pathologists
Sept. 25, 2024 | Ethan Simmons A team of Applied Health Sciences professors obtained a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education to educate 10 speech-language pathologists Between stuttering, language delays and articulation problems, Marjorie Campbell saw the gamut of communication disorders while shadowing a […]
First-generation student week was about honoring the trailblazers
Nov. 11, 2024 | Ethan Simmons For First-Generation Student Week in 2024, we highlighted stories from students at the College of Applied Health Sciences RIHANNA SHEGOG Kinesiology first-year student Rihanna Shegog grew up between Bradley and Shawneetown, Illinois—essentially, at both ends of the state. It wasn’t until a college fair her senior year of high […]