April 17, 2025 | Jonathan King Hoda Elshorbagy’s journey from rural Egypt to central Illinois was an unlikely story, a path littered with numerous obstacles. By JONATHAN KING In her home in southern Egypt, Hoda Elshorbagy glanced at the TV, then turned to her father with clear-eyed conviction and said, “One day, I’m going to […]
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Alumni Spotlight: Haley Bauman
Oct. 23, 2023 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Haley Bauman graduated from the University of Illinois in August 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in recreation, sport and tourism. She told us about her internship program this summer. This past summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to complete a 10-week internship as an activities field support agent for […]
Get to Know: Miki Sato, RST assistant professor
March 07, 2024 | Ethan Simmons Get to Know: Miki Sato, assistant professor in Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the College of Applied Health Sciences Miki Sato joined the College of Applied Health Sciences in 2020, after six years at James Madison University. How would you describe your primary research interests? My primary line […]
Yogi, OT, teacher, researcher: Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate explores yoga for pain management
April 01, 2024 | Ethan Simmons The question that guides her research: How might yoga be used to manage chronic pain? To doctoral candidate Stephanie Voss, chronic pain treatment and yoga have more in common than we think. Voss, now in her third year of a kinesiology Ph.D program at the University of Illinois, first […]
Serving the profession through mentorship
July 10, 2022 | Anna Flanagan A CFY pairs a first-year practitioner with an experienced practitioner in a mentoring relationship designed to ease the transition between student and independent provider of clinical services When students take on their first professional position after completing their master’s degrees in speech and hearing science with a focus on […]
Oversen’s road to a Fulbright grant was paved by family
June 27, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Spanish was spoken in her childhood home Amanda Oversen’s interest in linguistics has a very clear inspiration: her mom. Oversen, a Speech and Hearing Science major who graduated in December 2021, was recently awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain. Her goal is to become a bilingual speech-language […]
Chez Center hosts program to ready veterans for higher ed
Aug. 1, 2024 | Ethan Simmons While Adam Sherman Jr. sat for the two-hour bus ride from Chicago O’Hare Airport to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, a pit was forming in his stomach. He’d spent six years in the Navy, stationed in Japan and California for three years apiece, sometimes working out at sea […]
Skating career led to kinesiology studies for Weinstein
April 08, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo It was a circuitous route to the University of Illinois for Lindsay Weinstein At one time in her life, Lindsay Weinstein thought admitting she needed a physical therapist meant she was “weak.” Now she is studying to be one. The four-time national medalist figure skater is now a kinesiology […]
SHS rising senior Jenna Pryor talks about her internship
July 06, 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 Jenna Pryor, who is a rising senior in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, about her internship. Q: What was your experience with The […]
SHS alum Anjali Forber-Pratt named director of NIDILRR
May 24, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Forber-Pratt’s research is focused on disability identity, inclusion, disability sport, and work related to disability activism Anjali Forber-Pratt, who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Speech and Hearing Science in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois, has been named as director […]