Jan. 04, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo AHS media relations specialist Vince Lara speaks with Jacob Allen, an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, to discuss his research on how diet, exercise and stress influence the gut microbia community. Editor’s note: To reach Vince Lara-Cinisomo, email vinlara@illinois.edu. Related news
July 10, 2022 | Anna Flanagan A CFY pairs a first-year practitioner with an experienced practitioner in a mentoring relationship designed to ease the transition between student and independent provider of clinical services When students take on their first professional position after completing their master’s degrees in speech and hearing science with a focus on […]
June 27, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Spanish was spoken in her childhood home Amanda Oversen’s interest in linguistics has a very clear inspiration: her mom. Oversen, a Speech and Hearing Science major who graduated in December 2021, was recently awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain. Her goal is to become a bilingual speech-language […]
June 20, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo As much as the trip is about learning the logistics and operations of iconic RST sites, it is also an epic road trip RST 180 has a rather dry course title: Professional Applications. But for the students who take the class, it is anything but. RST 180, which returned […]
June 08, 2022 | Anna Flanagan Dr. Fatima Husain, professor of speech and hearing science, has been named the 2022 King J. and Marjorie R. McCristal Distinguished Scholar in the College of Applied Health Sciences, the most prestigious recognition of scholarly achievement given by the College. The award presentation and McCristal Lecture will take place […]
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 to Kelsey Beccue, an RST alum […]
May 02, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Carson Smith says he wants to help people age A funny thing happened to Carson Smith on his way to a career as a physician’s assistant. He “fell in love with health technology.” Smith graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Health in the College of Applied […]
May 16, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo RST 180 packs 20 field trips into one, two-week-long bus ride RST 180, a class that takes students on a tour of some of the country’s best-known sports and tourism sites, returns in 2022 after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. But this year’s iteration has some new wrinkles: […]
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 […]
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 […]