May 21, 2025 Hello, Health and Kinesiology family, Welcome to the spring 2025 edition of our newsletter! This marks our first spring semester under our new department name, officially changed last August. We have exciting updates to share and plenty to celebrate. Inside, you’ll learn about the importance of specialized faculty, how digital-voice assistants support […]
Category: Interdisciplinary Health
AHS students present diverse projects for Undergrad Research Week
May 01, 2024 | Ethan Simmons Students, faculty and staff got a taste of the findings from AHS’ budding student researchers during the AHS Undergraduate Research Expo For a freshman at the College of Applied Health Sciences, Saiesha Bollapragada’s research portfolio is impressive. At last week’s Undergraduate Research Symposium, the I-Health major got to present […]
Kraay: NPIs, Boosters work to battle COVID-19
Oct. 22, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Alicia Kraay’s study shows getting vaccine boosters and using non-pharmaceutical interventions can reduce cumulative deaths from COVID-19. In a recent publication, Kinesiology and Community Health assistant professor Alicia Kraay and her collaborators write that combining boosters and non-pharmaceutical interventions results in a 30 percent decrease in cumulative deaths due to COVID-19, […]
Department Head Message from Kim Graber
Oct. 22, 2022 | Kim Graber Welcome to the fall issue of KCH E-News! The 2022-23 academic year is off to a great start. We enrolled 396 first-year and transfer students in August, and added seven tenure-track and specialized professors to our faculty. Although the return of students to campus led to a spike in […]
Illinois part of team receiving $14.7M grant to study emerging tech for older adults
Oct. 22, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The University of Illinois is part of a consortium that has been awarded a five-year, $14.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (National Institutes of Health) for the Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE). University of Illinois Professor Wendy Rogers—of the Dept. […]
SPICE-Healthcare: Dietary assessments for culturally diverse older adults
March 07, 2024 | Ethan Simmons SPICE-Healthcare is meant to assist the growing population of older adults from culturally diverse backgrounds who are enrolling in long-term care services A cross-campus team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, led by Kinesiology and Community Health Assistant Professor Mina Raj, has received two grants to test […]
I-Health student ‘fell in love with health technology’
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 […]
I-Health student Cecilia Kattan discusses her internship
July 26, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Students in the College of Applied Health Sciences have the opportunity to do their internships in a variety of fields. Today, we speak with Cecilia Kattan, a student in the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences program in KCH, about her internship. Q: Where did you complete your internship and what was […]
I-Health senior Falguni Deshpande discusses COVID and the class of 2021
May 28, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Students are attending college in a unique environment, and that includes students in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois. The AHS communications staff spoke with AHS seniors about online classes, truncated courses and how COVID-19 changed their expectations. Today, we speak with Falguni Deshpande, […]
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 […]