Dec. 2, 2021
Margie Sable receives national award
Congratulations to Margie Sable, who received the Insley Evans Public Health Social Work award at the American Public Health Association conference. The award recognizes her outstanding service in the field. Dr. Sable, professor emerita, directed the School of Social Work from 2008–16. Dr. Sable completed her MSW at Washington University, and earned an MPH and DrPH from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. Her research interests included maternal and child health; adolescent pregnancy, psychosocial barriers to prenatal care and family planning; domestic violence; and perinatal substance abuse.
Nov. 15, 2021
Botswana Toney Blackburn named 2021 Faculty Alumni Award winner by Mizzou Alumni Association
Oct. 12, 2021
Multidisciplinary team receives poster award
Oct. 12, 2021 At the Boston University Speech Motor Control Symposium, Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences associate professor (pictured); Katie Threlkeld, Health & Rehabilitation Science PhD student; and Mojgan Golzy, School of Medicine; received an award for their dysarthric speech research poster. The $250 prize will be donated to the SLHS student travel fund. …
Oct. 10, 2021
Health Sciences student crowned Homecoming King
Oct. 10, 2021 Congratulations to Dylan Hood, who was crowned 2021 Homecoming king! Dylan is a Health Science major, Health Professions ambassador, Bryant Scholar, and Theta Chi fraternity member from Wardsville, Missouri. He was crowned by the 2020 Homecoming king, Omobude Eke, BHS ’21. From left: Dylan Hood and his supervisor Cheri Ghan, and fellow SHP ambassadors Hunter Puckett and Jason Nayar. …
Oct. 7, 2021
Alumna Claire Willard receives Excellence in Mentoring Award
Sept. 25, 2021 Coming from Clinton, Mo. — a town of less than 10,000 people — to Mizzou was a big adjustment at first for Claire Willard (CSD ’04). But after her freshman year, she made two friends who would ultimately influence her choice of what to major in, putting her on the trajectory of becoming a speech-language pathologist. Now, Willard serves as the Coordinator of Speech-Language Services for Columbia Public Schools, where part of her role includes helping the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences place master’s students in their school-setting outplacements. …
Sep. 15, 2021
International student receives awards for COVID-19 research
By Shanley Silvey Ifeolu David Congratulations to Ifeolu David, a PhD student in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, for receiving the Mary Elizabeth Guntermuth Award for Community Engagement and Graduate Professional Council (GPC) Excellence in Research Award this spring. Enid Schatz, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health, nominated David for the Guntermuth Award. David, who completed his MPH at Mizzou in 2019, assisted Dr. Schatz with a campus-wide study to assess the prevalence of COVID-19 on campus in Fall 2020. This large-scale study aimed to collect blood from up to 300 people a week, throughout the fall semester,…
Aug. 27, 2021
Anastasia Harris named Outstanding Young Alumna
The School of Health Professions is pleased to announce Anastasia Harris as one of our 2021 Outstanding Young Alumni award winners. This award recognizes alumni who demonstrate success in their chosen careers and qualities of innovation and creativity. Harris is a devoted Mizzou Tiger who is currently using her Health Sciences degree to jumpstart her career in Chicago. Anastasia Harris, MPH, CHES Degree: BHS ’15 (Health Science) with a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, MPH Job title: Data Management Strategy and Governance Advisor Employer: Cigna/ Evernorth Current city: Chicago Working with data…
June 15, 2021
Spring 2021 Dean’s List
June 15, 2021 Congratulations to all students who made the Spring 2021 Dean’s List! Each school and college at the University of Missouri determines its own dean’s list eligibility for undergraduate students. Students who had privacy holds in MyZou are excluded from public lists. To qualify for the dean’s list in the School of Health Professions, a student must earn a 3.3 GPA in a minimum of 12 graded (A-F) credit hours. Dean’s list honors only apply to Fall and Spring semesters. Courses graded S/U or Hearer do not count toward the required 12 graded hours. Self-paced courses must be…
June 7, 2021
Kuruvilla-Dugdale named to Communication Disorders Review Committee
June 7, 2021 By Kelsey Pritchett Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, has been nominated to and will serve on the Communication Disorders Review Committee for the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). This 21-member committee advises on programs and activities, grant applications, awards and special projects focused on deafness and other communication disorders. Dr. Kuruvilla-Dugdale has served for the past three years as the ad hoc reviewer for NIDCD on two different review committees. Her work involves reviewing training, early-career research grants and loan repayment grants. “It’s an honor…
June 7, 2021
Faculty receive Campus Writing Program award
June 7, 2021 By Kelsey Pritchett The Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences is pleased to share that Elizabeth Kelley, assistant professor, has been chosen for a 2021 Writing Intensive Teaching Excellence Award from the MU Campus Writing Program. This award’s purpose is to recognize outstanding writing-intensive teaching that helps achieve the goal of “writing to learn and learning to write” across disciplines. Dr. Kelley was nominated by Stacy Wagovich, department chair, for SLHS 3020: Normal Language Development. This carefully constructed course has a range of assignments that allow students to develop their writing skills, using formal to…