Human Health Sciences

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Some of the professors could barely hold back their tears. Then again, others didn't hold back at all. 

That was the vibe at the 2022 College of Health Sciences Student Awards ceremony Tuesday. 

It was a feel-good, end-of-year celebration of achievement held in the Worsham Cinema in the Gatton Student Center.

Human Health Sciences

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Latoya Walker was born in Jamaica, grew up in New York, but found her home in the Bluegrass of Kentucky.

Human Health Sciences

‘This is where you need to be’

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Don’t look now, but it’s not just the basketball teams that are making historic runs this athletic season.

It’s time to pay a little attention to your Gymnastics Wildcats, too.

Ranked No. 9 in the country, this team is on a roll in the month of March, as they took out No. 5 LSU and No. 12 Michigan State before they will perform in their conference championships this weekend.

Human Health Sciences

Here’s 5 questions with … SEC Champion Emma King

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

When Emma King was in the fifth grade, she told her father that she wanted to play basketball for the University of Kentucky.

Human Health Sciences

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

An Olympian. A national champion. An NCAA Woman of the Year.

Today, on National Girls and Women in Sport Day, we introduce you to some of the most accomplished female athletes in the College of Health Sciences.

Human Health Sciences

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Human Health Sciences

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

From first-generation college student to an exploratory major, then to Human Health Sciences and Medical Laboratory Science, Anyia Jones found her way through college with the help of her professors and classmates.

And now she will be a featured speaker Thursday when she and more than 30 of her classmates are honored at the College of Health Sciences’ MLS Pinning Ceremony & Reception.

Human Health Sciences

By Ellee Sidebottom
CHS Contributor

Jaley Caudill and Wes Wattenberger have been awarded the 2021 National Health Services Corps (NHSC) Scholarship for their passion and dedication for providing rural healthcare.

Human Health Sciences

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

These students are nothing bundt the best.

At least, that’s what the bundt cakes, which can be found in their sacks of goodies, tell the 52 Physician Assistant Studies students who will be receiving their official Black Bags Tuesday.

Human Health Sciences

by Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Rachel Fields says she believes in divine intervention.

How else then, can she explain how, as a basketball player in her junior season of high school, she tore her ACL — but it led to her deciding what she wanted to do with the rest of her life?

It sounds amazing, but that’s exactly what happened.

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