May 16, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo RST 180 packs 20 field trips into one, two-week-long bus ride RST 180, a class that takes students on a tour of some of the country’s best-known sports and tourism sites, returns in 2022 after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. But this year’s iteration has some new wrinkles: […]
Category: Recreation, Sport, and Tourism
2022 AHS Distinguished Lecturer Series—Dr. Ingrid E. Schneider
April 13, 2022 | AHS Staff Watch Ingrid Schneider’s talk on COVID-constrained leisure. Dr. Ingrid E. Schneider, Ph.D.Professor, University of Minnesota“Wrangling the waves: Coping with COVID-Constrained Leisure and its Impacts on Leisure-Time Physical Activity”Recorded Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Related news
Distinguished Lecturer: Green Spaces are Essential to Good Health
April 07, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Research has shown that leisure time physical activity in outdoor spaces has more positive health benefits than physical activity done indoors. Fully one-third of the U.S. population, however, has no access to green spaces, nor to the associated health benefits. These were among the findings shared during the 2022 […]
Carmen Rossi’s latest gift gives students a chance to forge bonds
Feb. 07, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Carmen Rossi has pledged $250,000 over a five-year period to the RST Domestic Site Tour Fund Lawyer, entrepreneur and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate Carmen Rossi has long been a believer in the importance of charitable works. Rossi, who earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees at Illinois—the master’s in […]
Alumni Spotlight—Megan Gaseor
Feb. 15, 2022 | 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 […]
RST capstone a chance to learn about change, compassion
Jan. 31, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo The course examines the core basics from idea generation through initial planning stages, according to the course description, and then through execution As a faculty member, you can hope that your course will make a lasting impact on students, and you hope they’ll learn from it. But the lofty, […]
Alumni Spotlight—Sarah Beth Reno
Dec. 17, 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 […]
Alumni Spotlight—Steve Staples
Dec. 10, 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 […]
Alumni Spotlight—Edward Harvey
Nov. 22, 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 […]
Stodolska, Shinew get grant to combat systemic racism in access to nature
Nov. 15, 2021 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Parks and recreation services play critical roles in making neighborhoods and cities livable, the researchers said Two researchers from the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism in the College of Applied Health Sciences are among the recipients for this first year of Call to Action funding from the Office […]