Jan. 15, 2024 | Anna Flanagan In its 2020-2025 strategic plan, the College of Applied Health Sciences makes a commitment to improving the access and affordability of its programs and reducing barriers that have historically limited individual opportunity. For international students, the prospect of pursuing degrees in the United States can be both alluring and […]
Category: Kinesiology
AHS honors four outstanding alumni
Jan. 15, 2024 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo In 2023, the College of Applied Health Sciences chose four AHS graduates to receive alumni awards. These awards serve as a testament to the unwavering dedication and great contributions of our graduates. Young Alumni AwardMichael LeachRecreation, Sport and Tourism Michael Leach was appointed as the first-ever chief diversity and […]
Graber honored as Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor in Applied Health Sciences
April 29, 2025 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Anyone who has been fortunate enough to work with Kim Graber should be thankful she wasn’t a very good cook. Graber, the head of the Department of Health and Kinesiology in the College of Applied Health Sciences, was appointed as the Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor in AHS on April 22. In […]
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. […]
The Martens pledge support to KCH grad students
May 20, 2024 | Ethan Simmons Giving back to the institution that helped launch their careers makes all the sense to Julie and Rainer Martens University of Illinois alums Rainer and Julie Martens are retired, but they can hardly stay still. From their current home base of Ormond Beach, Florida, the pair have stayed busy […]
Health Technology program undergoes leadership change from Rogers to Mejia
Sept. 10, 2024 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Wendy Rogers said she always planned to get the Health Tech program established and build a strong foundation before passing it on Health and Kinesiology Professor Wendy Rogers, the founding director of the Health Technology Education Program in 2017, stepped aside in the summer of 2024 and Shannon Mejía, […]
KCH becomes Health and Kinesiology
May 20, 2024 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s College of Applied Health Sciences is proud to announce a significant milestone in its ongoing commitment to advancing health sciences education and research. Effective Aug. 16, the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health will officially change its name to the Department of Health […]
For Health and Kinesiology’s Askow, a heavy lift is no burden
July 09, 2024 | Darina Lubenov To anyone who knows Andy Askow, the marrying of his personal interests and research interests is no surprise. The Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Health and Kinesiology is a six-time national powerlifting champion. He’s also planning to defend his dissertation in the fall and graduate from the College of […]