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 […]
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Stodolska, Shinew get grant to combat systemic racism in access to nature
Nov. 15, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Parks and recreation services play critical roles in making neighborhoods and cities livable, the researchers said Two researchers from the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism in the College of Applied Health Sciences are among the recipients for this first year of Call to Action funding from the Office […]
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 […]
It’s not a Stretch to see future opportunities for this robot
Oct. 18, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Kinesiology and Community Health Professor Wendy Rogers is no stranger to robots. She began working with robots more than two decades ago at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was a professor in the School of Psychology, and director of the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory. It was […]
Husain sees use of brain imaging as vital to studying hearing disorders
Oct. 18, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The main objective is to establish an international center of excellence for hearing research that transforms the field by using artificial intelligence and Big Data to translate research into practical clinical solutions Department of Speech and Hearing Science Professor Fatima Husain received $125,000 in seed grant funding from the […]
McKechnie Family LIFE Home opening a milestone for Wendy Rogers
Oct. 08, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The McKechnie Family LIFE Home is a cutting-edge research center focused on innovations in home environments Even for someone as accomplished as Kinesiology and Community Health Professor Wendy Rogers, the night of Oct. 7 represented a milestone. Rogers has so many appointments and affiliations—she is a Khan Professor of […]
Illinois alum finds ‘Amazing way to give back’ through caregiving, internship
Sept. 20, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The idea of caregiving has long been a way of life for two AHS alumni Denise Brown and Katherine Lim attended the University of Illinois more than three decades apart, but they have plenty in common. Both Brown, an Illinois alum, and Lim, a senior in the Department of […]
Khan’s R01 grant aimed at measuring lutein effect on cognitive function
Sept. 15, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Whether you’re a parent or Popeye, you’ve been extolling the virtues of spinach for decades. Now, one of AHS’ researchers is prepared to study the effects of the leafy green vegetable. KCH Associate Professor Naiman Khan has received an R01 grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Child Health […]
RST student aspires to future in baseball front office
August 16, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Diego Acosta, a senior in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism in the College of Applied Health Sciences, is aware of the well-worn axiom, “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” The Skokie, Ill., native worked this summer […]
Exploring Extended High-Frequency Hearing
Aug. 10, 2021 | Anna Flanagan If hearing above 8 kHz is not important, why is the human auditory system capable of hearing up to 20 kHz? Can you imagine having a conversation that included none of the following consonant sounds: s, sh, f, and ph? Known as voiceless fricatives, much of their energy occurs […]