Sept. 22, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Adam Bleakney and colleagues are pioneering a transformative wheelchair technology designed to increase independence, reduce injury risk, and reframe how society perceives mobility disability. As coach of the Illinois wheelchair track team, Adam Bleakney knows about the chronic overuse of shoulders and elbows by his athletes. But as a […]
Category: College of Applied Health Sciences
Wellness Ambassador Lauryn Praet talks about COVID and campus
Oct. 03, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Wellness ambassadors support the University of Illinois’ COVID-19 educational compliance efforts by providing health resources to the university community. The College of Applied Health Sciences is proud to boast several students who are participating in the Wellness Ambassador program. Periodically, we’ll speak with a student about what they have encountered […]
Wellness Ambassador Rachel Brokenshire talks about COVID and campus
Sept. 22, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Wellness ambassadors support the University of Illinois’ COVID-19 educational compliance efforts by providing health resources to the university community. The College of Applied Health Sciences is proud to boast several students who are participating in the Wellness Ambassador program. Periodically, we’ll speak with a student about what they have encountered […]
Alumni Spotlight—Skylar Peters
June 15, 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 […]
Expert Q&A: KCH’s Jeff Woods on COVID-19 and epidemiology questions
July 01, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The College of Applied Health Sciences has experts in many areas that have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Periodically we will ask these experts about how their areas of expertise have been impacted and what we can expect in a post-COVID-19 world. Today, we ask KCH professor Jeff […]
Alumni Spotlight—Grace Merrett
June 09, 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 […]
Illini students making masks for people with spinal cord injuries
May 22, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The students collaborated on a grant application to make protective masks for people with spinal cord injuries The COVID-19 pandemic has caused people to pause plans, change directions and pivot to new careers. For two Illinois students, it means becoming inventors and distributors. Joey Peters, a Ph.D. candidate in […]
Alumni Spotlight: Lynn Bielski
June 01, 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 […]
AHS researchers get grant to study social engagement over video technology
May 12, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Never has there been a more important time to help older adults stay connected. A grant awarded to two University of Illinois researchers aims to advance that goal. Kinesiology and Community Health professor Wendy Rogers and Speech and Hearing Science associate professor Raksha Mudar are the principal investigators of […]
AHS well represented in Undergrad Research Symposium
May 7, 2020 | Anna Flanagan See the research projects our undergraduates presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium The signature event of Undergraduate Research Week, the Undergraduate Research Symposium has been held on the University of Illinois campus since 2008. The number of undergraduate students participating has grown from a few hundred in its inaugural year […]