Health
ºÚÁÏÉç Entrepreneur Wins Burton D. Morgan PITCH U Competition
ºÚÁÏÉç’s Shanice Cheatham is one step closer to helping health care workers stop the spread of disease in underdeveloped countries. Cheatham took first place and won $4500 in the PITCH U elevator competition at the University of Akron, with the generous support of the Burton D. Morgan…
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The Connection Between Belly and Brain
Losing inches around your waist could help improve your memory.
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Mighty Pack Program: On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need
A graduate student project develops into a countywide program to grow and fill backpacks with healthy foods.
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ºÚÁÏÉç Professor Says Money Really Cannot Buy Happiness
If money doesn't make us happy, what does? A ºÚÁÏÉç professor has a suggestion.
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Cancer Connects Two Pilots, a Decade Apart and a Mile High
Matthew Dougard and Niki Kukwa never met, but they made a connection high above the clouds, drawn together by the will to fight and a passion to fly.
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ºÚÁÏÉç Exercise Science Professor Develops Treatment Bike for Parkinson’s Patients
Physical therapy is usually a component of treatment for patients of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative and motor system disorders. Now, a ºÚÁÏÉç professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Services has designed a piece of equipment that serves that purpose…
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Public Relations Major Addresses Congressional Leaders ºÚÁÏÉç Improving Foster Care System For Children
For the second time in as many years, Keri Richmond took her call for improving the foster care system to the nation's leaders in Washington D.C. The senior public relations major recently participated in Foster Youth Shadow Day as part of Foster …
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ºÚÁÏÉç Partners With the Jed Foundation to Assess and Enhance University’s Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Programming
ºÚÁÏÉç’s Division of Student Affairs has partnered with the Jed Foundation Health Matters Campus Program, which is designed to help colleges and universities assess and enhance mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention programming. During the four-year partnershi…
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Life-Changing Event Inspires ºÚÁÏÉç Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases
In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from ºÚÁÏÉç in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at ºÚÁÏÉç, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…
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ºÚÁÏÉç’s College of Public Health Receives National Accreditation
ºÚÁÏÉç’s College of Public Health has received accreditation from the Board of Councilors of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The five-year span is the maximum term the college could have achieved as a first-time applicant. To earn the accreditation, the college m…
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