Undergraduate kinesiology student Ashley Haller found out about Oregon State’s campus-wide startup competition just a few weeks before it began. She had never heard of it, but when approached about participating, she didn’t hesitate.
People with rare diseases are at high risk for experiencing poor quality of life, including increased levels of anxiety, depression, pain, fatigue and limited ability to participate in society, a new study from an Oregon State University shows.
Adding a daily 20 to 30 minute self-regulation intervention to a kindergarten readiness program significantly boosted children’s self-regulation and early academic skills, College of Public Health and Human Sciences researcher Megan McClelland has found.
College of Public Health and Human Sciences Dean Javier Nieto was recently featured as an expert in the Boston University School of Public Health’s annual report. The project features 24 public health deans and directors, past and present, from schools and programs across the country and asks them to provide insight into today’s public health challenges and opportunities.
“There hasn’t been one moment or experience that has inspired my career path. Overall, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to follow my passions and curiosities. Being housed within kinesiology has allowed me to apply what we know about movement science to what we know about youth development in an effort to merge these two fields in my work.”
Oregon State baseball’s Jack Anderson and gymnastics’ Taylor Ricci – both Kinesiology majors in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences – are the recipients of the 2016-17 Pac-12 Conference’s Leadership Awards.