By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
Shelby Baez knew she wanted a career in athletic training when she was in high school. But originally, she thought she was going to contribute to Good Morning America.
As a four-sport athlete growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., (that’s basketball, softball, volleyball and cross country, if you’re curious) she originally thought she may be a journalist, then go to law school and be a political correspondent for GMA.
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
“I’ve been puzzling my whole life. But I'm from Northern Minnesota, so you spend a lot of time in the winter inside with not much to do — unless you want to read or puzzle …”
When Dr. Kirby Mayer was young, he saw the way physical therapists helped his grandmother, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s.
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
Two young investigators from the College of Health Sciences have recently received highly competitive K-award funding from the National Institutes of Health for their research, reports Esther Dupont-Versteegden, PhD and professor in Physical Therapy, as well as Director for the Center for Muscle Biology.
The two investigators are: Kirby Mayer, DPT, PhD and Yuan Wen, MD, PhD.
On Thursday, May 18, the College of Health Sciences came out for an end of the year celebration at the Longship Club at Kroger Field.
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
Casey Carter grew up an only child in a single-parent home just off the University of South Carolina’s campus in Columbia, S.C.
by Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
A College of Health Sciences’ alumna was recently honored with one of the country’s most prestigious awards for young researchers.
By Sara Pisoni
CHS Contributor
For professors in the College of Health Sciences, they have a luxury some others could only hope for.
They are utilizing their undergraduate students to help with their research.
By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director
Jamie Suhr came all the way from the West Coast to spend his first day in Physical Therapy school in the College of Health Sciences Monday.
Suhr, a 29-year-old native of Boise, Idaho, attended his first class — physiology — and he came away impressed.