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Video: Kinesiology student uses love of exercise to inspire others

Jacob Taskinen has taken his love for exercise to the next level by sharing his passion with others through fitness training. He currently teaches body pump, body blitz and core classes at Dixon Recreation Center at Oregon State University.

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Video: MPH student helps improve women’s health in Uganda

With a passion for international health, Lauren Baur traveled to Uganda this past summer to complete an internship as part of her Master of Public Health degree. She worked for TERREWODE, a women’s rights and women’s health organization that’s working to address maternal and child health issues in Uganda.

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Meet Emily Ho – Endowed Director of the Moore Center

As the new endowed director for the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition and Preventive Health, Emily Ho hopes to make the center a hub for nutrition research and its application. She’s already leaving a lasting impression with those she teaches, mentors and speaks to in public presentations.

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Smoke-free OSU to improve public health

In a move that directly aligns with the mission of the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University administrators implemented a new smoke-free policy on the Corvallis campus, effective Sept. 1.

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College mourns the loss of Alexis Walker

Friend, colleague and CPHHS family member Alexis Walker died Sunday, July 8, 2012 after years long battle with lymphoma.

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Walker honored with mentoring award

Alexis Walker is the latest recipient of the Felix Berardo Scholarship Award for Mentoring from the National Council on Family Relations.