May 13, 2025 | Adelyn Mui A new initiative is taking aim at a key barrier facing low-income homeowners: weatherization deferrals. Weatherization is the process of making the home more energy-efficient, which can lower energy bills and improve overall home comfort. The project, titled “Reducing Deferrals by Integrating Healthy Homes with Weatherization,” is looking to […]
Tag: College of Applied Health Sciences
AHS program trains—and pays for—skilled speech-language pathologists
Sept. 25, 2024 | Ethan Simmons A team of Applied Health Sciences professors obtained a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education to educate 10 speech-language pathologists Between stuttering, language delays and articulation problems, Marjorie Campbell saw the gamut of communication disorders while shadowing a […]
Improving clinical practice and quality of life
May 21, 2024 | Anna Flanagan Laura Mattie and Marie Channel are collaborating on a study funded by the National Institutes of Health INCLUDE Project, which supports research related to the health and quality of life of individuals with Down syndrome Speech and Hearing Science Associate Professors Marie Moore Channell and Laura Mattie have long […]
SHS student follows her love of languages to Brazil
June 05, 2024 | Darina Lubenov Sylvia Techmanski’s favorite subject in high school was Spanish, but it wasn’t until a spring break trip to Puerto Rico that she realized her love for languages could take her farther than that. Now a student in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science and in the Department of […]
Illini 4000 hits home for SHS student
May 28, 2024 | Sam Rink Illini 4000, started as a theoretical conversation between two Illinois students in 2007 and has since become a massive annual fundraising drive that has raised more than $1.3 million since the first ride more than 15 years ago. When Izzy Perpich committed to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in […]
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 […]
How Black distance runners shaped the sport from the shadows
May 22, 2024 | Ethan Simmons While Black American athletes such as basketball’s Bill Russell, baseball’s Jackie Robinson and tennis’s Althea Gibson received significant coverage in the newspapers of the day, ‘marathoning was on the margins’ The world of competitive long-distance running took off in the 1970s. But stories of the sport’s Black architects and […]
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 […]