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The Connection Between Belly and Brain

Shape Magazine shares Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ professor's research connecting weight loss with improved memory.

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Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Entrepreneur Wins Burton D. Morgan PITCH U Competition

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University’s Shanice Cheatham is one step closer to helping health care workers stop the spread of disease in underdeveloped countries. Cheatham took first place and won $4500 in the PITCH U elevator competition at the University of Akron, with the generous support of the Burton D. Morgan…

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The Connection Between Belly and Brain

Losing inches around your waist could help improve your memory.

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Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ master’s student Sarah Burns shows off a tomato from the garden behind Nixson Hall.

Mighty Pack Program: On-Campus Garden Helps Provide Vegetables to Local Students in Need

A graduate student project develops into a countywide program to grow and fill backpacks with healthy foods.

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Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Professor Says Money Really Cannot Buy Happiness

If money doesn't make us happy, what does? A Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ professor has a suggestion.

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Cancer Connects Two Pilots, a Decade Apart and a Mile High

Matthew Dougard and Niki Kukwa never met, but they made a connection high above the clouds, drawn together by the will to fight and a passion to fly.

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Angela Ridgel, Ph.D., an associate professor of exercise science at Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University and an avid cyclist, has designed a bicycle specially tailored to Parkinson’s patients.

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Exercise Science Professor Develops Treatment Bike for Parkinson’s Patients

Physical therapy is usually a component of treatment for patients of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative and motor system disorders. Now, a Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Services has designed a piece of equipment that serves that purpose…

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Public Relations Major Addresses Congressional Leaders Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Improving Foster Care System For Children

For the second time in as many years, Keri Richmond took her call for improving the foster care system to the nation's leaders in Washington D.C.   The senior public relations major recently participated in Foster Youth Shadow Day as part of Foster …

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Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Partners With the Jed Foundation to Assess and Enhance University’s Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Programming

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University’s Division of Student Affairs has partnered with the Jed Foundation Health Matters Campus Program, which is designed to help colleges and universities assess and enhance mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention programming.   During the four-year partnershi…

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Shanice Cheatham worked with Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…

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