Nov. 16, 2022
Health Sciences Extension professor receives APLU public service award
Jo Britt-Rankin, Health Sciences Extension professor, received the 2022 Ellen Swallow Richards Public Service Award.
Nov. 14, 2022
Public health professor and PhD student win international engagement award
Nov. 12, 2022
Safe driving for seniors: OT students, educators inspect mature drivers’ cars
Nov. 8, 2022
Celebrating first-generation college students
One in five health professions students is the first in their family to attend college. Several of our faculty were also first-generation students and can remember what it was like. Their experiences shape their teaching philosophy and they have some advice and insights for current first-gen students. Bill Janes What advice do you have for current first-gen Mizzou students?Don’t be afraid to ask for help or admit when you need it. It can be intimidating to admit when you don’t know what’s going on or what some new term means –especially when it seems like everyone else…
Nov. 2, 2022
Meet the first Clinical Laboratory Science master’s graduate, Brenna Ildza
Ildza, an MU alumna, will graduate from the online Clinical Laboratory Science master's program in December.
Oct. 31, 2022
Social work student follows mom’s footsteps
By Kate Lickert Social work has changed over the years, but one thing has remained constant: social workers’ desire to help, care for and support those in need. Carmen Dieken, a current social work student, shares a special bond with the program and her mother. Dieken was 12 years old when her mom, Robin Hochgrebe, graduated with her MSW from the University of Missouri. Watching her mom help others through organizations such as Love Columbia and Burrell Behavior Health inspired Dieken to follow her mother’s footsteps into social work. “I want to help people,” Dieken said.
Oct. 31, 2022
Public Health students gain hands-on experience with Missouri Eliminate Tobacco Use initiative
By Gracie Hedenberg The Missouri Eliminate Tobacco Use Initiative is a student-staffed effort to reduce tobacco use in Missouri, including on MU’s campus. Students Mikayla Kitchen, an undergraduate Public Health student, and Cameron Reitan, a Master of Public Health student, are both members of the MO ETU team, which provides hands-on public health experience before they enter the field. Eliminate Tobacco Use (ETU) is an initiative that began at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and within the University of Texas System. For the Missouri initiative, funded by the Missouri Foundation for Health, students…
Oct. 25, 2022
From internship to full-time job: Health Science alumna finds meaning with nonclinical career
Elizabeth LaDriere, BHS '21, landed a full-time job with the same company she interned with the summer before her senior year.
Oct. 25, 2022
SLHS student Morgan Linneweh gets valuable research experience in Neurogenic Communication Disorders Lab
By Gracie Hedenberg If there is one thing Morgan Linneweh, a junior and student researcher in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, would tell her freshman self, it would be to embrace her mistakes because that’s how to learn. And Linneweh has learned a lot since she first stepped foot into Dr. Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale’s Neurogenic Communication Disorders Laboratory her freshman year, including research terminology, how to analyze data from lip, tongue and jaw sensors, and the connections she can make within MU. For about six hours a week, Linneweh works in her lab reviewing charts, analyzing speech errors…
Oct. 25, 2022
Remer, Mermelstein receive Social Work centennial impact awards
The School of Social Work celebrated 100+ years of social work education at Mizzou with a special Homecoming tailgate Oct. 22. At the event, School of Social Work director Aaron Thompson, recognized two individuals for their significant contributions to the field of social work. Joanne Mermelstein Centennial Impact: Faculty Award Joanne Mermelstein, MS ’61, advocated for the MU School of Social Work in several ways as a professor, interim director (1988) and director of the Master of Social Work Program. Dr. Mermelstein was a champion and pioneer in rural social work, helping to develop programs and supports…