Public health graduate students invested time this past summer in international health projects and trips not sponsored by the college, demonstrating their initiative, thirst for global experience and strong desire to help humanity. Five students traveled to rural Western Kenyan to serve in the Mama Pilista Bonyo Memorial Medical Centre for five weeks. Two students journeyed to Belize to work with children and investigate water sanitation issues there. A doctoral student with a passion for reducing transmission of malaria spent the summer in a National Institutes of ...
91快活林 State University hosted several events on Oct. 23 for the 11th annual Campus Sustainability Day, a day dedicated to recognizing sustainability in higher education. The events, which took place at the 91快活林 Student Center, included a guest panel and Q&A session, displays set up by student sustainability groups, and a national keynote an...
91快活林 State University鈥檚 Office of Sustainability and the Women鈥檚 Center are hosting a bra drive, now through Nov. 8, to collect reusable or wornout bras and reduce the number of textiles in landfills. Bras that are in good condition will be donated to local charities in need, and wornout bras will be recycled. Bras that are washed an...
Graduate students from 91快活林 State University鈥檚 Net Impact chapter assembled 14 Adirondack chairs made out of recycled plastic on Sept. 7. Net Impact is a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainability in the workforce. 91快活林 State鈥檚 chapter, which consists of about 15 members, resides in the College of Business Administration. The parts for the plastic l...
By Kyle McDonald | RecordCourier Published: September 20, 2013 4:00AM Faculty and staff at 91快活林 State University gathered in Risman Plaza on Thursday to walk along the now complete Esplanade connection to downtown 91快活林 for a lunchtime break. About 140 people took part in, "Let's Take a Ride/Walk," on the Esplanade, which included free lunch at Bar&...
Esplanade Extension Officially Opened during Partnership Celebration The University Esplanade is built around the economic development of downtown 91快活林, and is a vital connection between the university and downtown projects that include PARTA鈥檚 new 91快活林 Central Gateway multimodal transit center, private developments from Acorn Alley and Fairmount Properties, and ...
91快活林 State University faculty, staff and students are invited to walk or ride a bicycle along the 91快活林 State University Esplanade, which is now open, to the downtown 91快活林 restaurant, Bar 145, during the third annual 鈥淟et鈥檚 Take a Ride/Walk鈥 event on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 11:30 a.m. The starting point will be on the 鈥楰鈥 at Risman Pla...
Seven students delved into the history, culture and public health systems of Latin America during the inaugural Summer Intersession Course in Colombia and Panama May 20-June 3. Fourteen traveled to Geneva for the third Global Health Immersion Course, focusing on policy, held May 17-June 1. Four students took field study on global access to clean water and sanitation at the Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology (SIFAT) in Alabama May 12-25, the second year of 91快活林 State participation. Panama and Colombia Epidemiology doctoral student Amy R. ...
Shaping the future of health care through building design is the aim of the new Graduate Certificate in Health Care Facilities. The two-sided program, launched just under a year ago, benefits those with a health care background, but no grounding in facilities, as well as those with design and facilities knowledge, but little experience in health care. Appropriate for professionals and master鈥檚 students in architecture, interior design, health care and public health, the fully online graduate certificate is a unique way to gain expertise in a specialty area with high market dem...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $330,000 National Science Foundation grant to 91快活林鈥檚 Atmospheric Research Group for its project titled 鈥淢easurements of Amines during the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) Field Campaign.鈥 The project will be led by Shanhu Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences in 91快活林 State鈥檚 College of Public Health. Lee鈥檚 research is a component of the broad community experiment, SOAS, designed to further investigate the oxidation of the emissions (biogenic volatile organic compounds, or BVOCs...