“It is so rewarding to feel as though I’ve made a difference, even if small, in my patients’ lives,” says Oregon State University Dietetic Internship intern Paige Becker, who is the recipient of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Scholarship. “This is my favorite aspect of the internship thus far.”
While more than half of four-year colleges and universities in the United States have dropped physical education requirements, Oregon State University is taking extra steps to ensure its students are getting – and staying – physically active.
Across international boundaries and vastly different cultures, women face the threat of sexual violence and issues of gender equality and empowerment. Meghan Fitzgerald has seen it firsthand. More importantly, she is doing something about it.
Kinesiology student McKenzie Redberg, a former Corvallis High School standout is playing for the Oregon State women’s soccer team, fulfilling a dream that was deferred, but not denied, by a four-year tour as a medic in the United States Air Force.
Toner is majoring in Psychology and Human Development and Family Sciences, and hopes to work in child psychology and family development, with a focus on children with Down syndrome. “My parents broke up when I was eight, and I know how kids feel when their family life is not the best,” she said. “I want to help and volunteer with those kids as much as I can,” if she doesn’t play professionally.
“I’ve always been a fit guy and always wanted to know how I can get myself stronger, fitter, faster,” Bright Ugwoegbu said. “Kinesiology seemed like the field of study for me.”