July 20, 2023 | Ethan Simmons A scholarship formed by recent Illini wheelchair basketball players supports today’s athletes In the heat of an Illinois men’s wheelchair basketball season, intense morning practices roll into sociable team meals and lively late-night gaming sessions. The hours spent between busy student-athlete schedules—on buses and dorm rooms—are where teammates became […]
Author: Vince Lara-Cinisomo
Students bring volunteer force to ‘Medfest’
May 22, 2024 | Ethan Simmons MedFest was set up to provide free medical screenings for Special Olympics athletes. The stage was set at Wintrust Sports Complex in the Village of Bedford Park—a suburb of Chicago—when nearly 600 Special Olympics athletes from across the state began to stream in. With the help of a substantial […]
Student Spotlight: Anjali Patel forging her path
May 31, 2023 | Ethan Simmons Like the millions of other high school seniors who applied for college during the COVID-19 pandemic, Anjali Patel made her choice of campus sight unseen. Hailing from Memphis, Tenn., she hadn’t set foot near the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign when she was accepted to the College of Applied Health […]
Joe DeLuce: ‘You interview for your next job everyday’
May 21, 2023 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Joe DeLuce, a Recreation, Sport and Tourism graduate [M.S., 2001] and former visiting instructor, retired in December 2022 after 43 years in the park management industry, including his final 25 at the Champaign Park District, where he was executive director at the time of his retirement. DeLuce is not […]
Message from Department Head Carla Santos
May 21, 2023 | Carla Santos Dear alumni and friends, It is difficult to believe that another academic year is coming to an end. It has been an eventful year in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism. I’m excited to share some of those events with you in this issue of RST E-News. Professor […]
How Veterans’ cannabis use can impact their care
May 23, 2023 | Ethan Simmons While cannabis use is increasing for military Veterans, most aren’t getting it from medical sources By ETHAN SIMMONS Twenty-one states have legalized recreational cannabis, and 88 percent of American adults are in favor of legalizing the use of marijuana for medical and recreational use, according to a recent Pew […]
Student Spotlight: Charlie Nudelman, a trained ear
May 10, 2023 | Ethan Simmons Nudelman was raised by a speech language pathologist: His mother What comes to mind when you hear “professional voice-user?” Perhaps the image of an opera singer or a sports announcer pops in your head. Ask Department of Speech and Hearing Science doctoral candidate Charles Nudelman, and he’ll conjure dozens […]
Illinois’ McCammon selected for inaugural Team USA wheelchair competition
March 27, 2023 | AHS Staff Morgan McCammon of the University of Illinois has been selected to participate in the inaugural Team USA vs. College All-Star competition taking place at the NCAA Women’s Final Four, as announced Monday by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee and National Wheelchair Basketball Association. McCammon will compete for […]
Department of Speech and Hearing Science rose from a humble start
March 09, 2023 | Bruce Adams In 2023, SHS celebrated its 50th anniversary. The articles below highlight the key people and research that shaped SHS into the strong program it is today. As humble beginnings go, it would be difficult to top that of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at the University of […]
Zou helps tourism industries build sustainable financing
March 06, 2023 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo In the final year of her doctoral studies, Zou took a class that connected marketing and the financing of park, recreation, and tourism services Growing up in Guangzhou, China, Suiwen “Sharon” Zou quickly learned the importance of marketing a business. Zou’s parents are entrepreneurs and they run their own […]