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Senior Jake Addessi’s spring break memories include feeding the poor and helping to renovate a building damaged in a hurricane. Addessi has taken part in Alternative Spring Break trips for four straight years.

Spring Forward: ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Health Services Major Devotes Spring Break Trips to Helping Others for Four Years and Counting

Senior Jake Addessi has spent all of his undergraduate spring breaks in places like New Orleans and Chicago. Yet, unlike his peers, none of the getaways were for fun in the sun. Instead, Addessi was taking part in Alternative Spring Breaks to help others in need.

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Selects James Hannon as the New Dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services

James Hannon, Ph.D., will become the new dean of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2017. Hannon currently serves as professor and assistant dean of Academic Affairs and Research for the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at West V…

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University students Nilin Rao (left) and Craig Verdin (right), and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D. (center), have invented an insole to help people with ulcerations on their feet.

New Podiatric Product Developed by ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Students and Professor Can Be Used by People With Diabetes and Athletes

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University students Nilin Rao, Ph.D., and Craig Verdin, and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D., are the co-founders of TheraPod Medical LLC, a wound-care company that is looking to transform the field of podiatric medicine. Rao, a fourth-year podiatric stud…

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University students Nilin Rao (left) and Craig Verdin (right), and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D. (center), have invented an insole to help people with ulcerations on their feet.

New Podiatric Product Developed by ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Students and Professor Can Be Used by People With Diabetes and Athletes

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University students Nilin Rao, Ph.D., and Craig Verdin, and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D., are the co-founders of TheraPod Medical LLC, a wound-care company that is looking to transform the field of podiatric medicine. Rao, a fourth-year podiatric stud…

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Kevin J. Spence (third from left), a ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University higher education administration doctoral student, is pictured with instructors of the University of Cienfuegos’ Pedagogical Institute, which prepares graduates for careers in education.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Graduate Student Explores Educational Opportunities With Cuba

Kevin J. Spence, a ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University higher education administration doctoral student, visited Cienfuegos, Cuba, to help bridge ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s College of Education, Health and Human Services’ past to the present. In October, Spence discussed the Visiting Scholar program at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s Gerald H…

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Jacob Barkley (left), associate professor of exercise science in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, oversees research activities with several students in a classroom in the MAC Center Annex.

Scholar Gets Students, ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì on the Move

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s Scholar of the Month for December would prefer that you read this standing up, or even doing some calisthenics. Go on, get moving. Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., is an associate professor of exercise science in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. During hi…

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University students Nilin Rao (left) and Craig Verdin (right), and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D. (center), have invented an insole to help people with ulcerations on their feet.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Students and Professor Invent Insole for Diabetic Patients

Product also can help athletes recover from blisters and calluses that can impede their performance ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University students Nilin Rao, Ph.D., and Craig Verdin, and Exercise Science and Physiology Professor Ellen Glickman, Ph.D., are the co-founders of TheraPod Medical LLC, a wound-care com…

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì researchers study the effects of cellphone use on walking speed.

Want to Get the Most Cardio Out of Your Walk? Focus on Your Feet, Not Your Phone

We all know that we are supposed to exercise to reduce the risk of heart disease. But let’s face it, sometimes the only workout we get is walking from our office to the breakroom, and to the parking lot to drive home. So how then do we get the most out of those short walks? ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University res…

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì master’s student Sarah Burns shows off a tomato from the garden behind Nixson Hall.

On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need

Sarah Burns, a second-year master’s student in the Nutrition and Dietetics program at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University, shows off a tomato that she and others in the program helped to grow over the last few months. Under the direction of Nutrition and Dietetics faculty member Natalie Caine-Bish, Ph.D., Burns a…

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University students studying middle childhood education pose in front of their artwork in their Teaching and Learning class in White Hall.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Celebrates Status as First University in Ohio to Offer International Certificate in Middle Childhood Education

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University’s Middle Childhood Education program is the first in the state of Ohio to offer an undergraduate program authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization: the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program Certificate in Teaching and Learning. The Internatio…

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