Sept. 13, 2021 | 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 […]
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Alumni Spotlight—Christian Perez
Feb. 29, 2020 | 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 […]
Alumni Spotlight—Charles Burton
April 23, 2020 | 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 […]
A Few Minutes With … Joe Cross
Feb. 06, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo College of Applied Health Sciences media relations specialist Vince Lara speaks with Joe Cross, a former Illinois basketball player who went on to get his PhD in education policy, organization and leadership at Illinois, about his new role as an academic skills specialist at AHS. Related news
Carla Santos named fellow of The Academy of Leisure Sciences
Jan. 08, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Recreation, Sport and Tourism department head Carla A. Santos was named a fellow of The Academy of Leisure Sciences. Santos is one of two fellows named to TALS for the 2020 voting class, along with Dr. Brijesh Thapa of the University of Florida. The Academy of Leisure Sciences, or […]
Day one of Sapora Symposium about Grange
Nov. 21, 2019 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Red Grange legacy celebrated; RST students urged toward professional passion The first day of the 16th annual Sapora Symposium was intended to be a tribute to Red Grange, the former Illini football star who put college football and the NFL on the map in the 1920s. And while Grange […]
Podcast: A Few Minutes With … Nick Burd
Nov. 11, 2019 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Kinesiology and Community Health associate professor Nick Burd speaks with AHS media relations specialist Vince Lara about his research on potatoes as an exercise fuel and that physical activity and nutritional guidelines are inextricably linked. Related news
AHS celebrates outstanding alumni
Oct. 18, 2019 | Anna Flanagan A bilingual speech-language pathologist who has helped train and place bilingual clinicians throughout the United States and a woman who began her career at Illinois as a graduate student and ended it as the director of the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services were honored for their achievements […]
AHS to launch first-of-its-kind degree
Dec. 12, 2019 | Anna Flanagan Following the approval this week of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, AHS will welcome its first cohort of students into the new Master of Science in Health Technology (MS-HT) degree program in the fall of 2020. The degree, designed to advance applied health technology design and implementation, resulted […]
A Celebration of Excellence
May 06, 2019 | Anna Flanagan Dr. Amy Woods, the first James K. and Karen S. McKechnie Professor in the College of Applied Health Sciences, says a pivotal event in her childhood set her on her career path. When Dr. Amy Woods was in third grade, school was a place where you were expected to […]