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Â鶹ÊÓƵ employee Mark van ‘t Hooft presents at a lunch and learn to celebrate and recognize his achievements and commitment to the university’s wellness program.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ employee Mark van ‘t Hooft, Ph.D., took to the Netherlands for four days this summer and walked 125 miles in the largest multiday marching event in the world.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ employees pause to listen to Michael Bruder, executive director of facilities planning and design, during a Walk and Talk to learn about campus construction.  The Walk and Talk is one of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s wellness initiatives for employees.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ has achieved silver-level recognition from the American Heart Association for taking significant steps to build a culture of health in the workplace.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ employees participate in the Lunchtime Rejuvenation Yoga session – a regular wellness offering on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The 12-week On the Move University Challenge begins Oct. 2 and provides Â鶹ÊÓƵ faculty and staff with a blue and golden opportunity to move more, sit less and become the Most Active University in the nation!

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A Weighty Concern

How can we halt the health hazard of childhood obesity? Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers weigh in on their latest findings. By Michael Blanding / Â鶹ÊÓƵ Magazine

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Photo by Melissa Olson

As the heroin epidemic continues to make headlines and devastate communities across the country, Â鶹ÊÓƵ sophomore public relations major Emelia Sherin found a way to help people better understand what’s going on, who is affected—and what we can do about it.

By Emelia Sherin, as told to Jan Senn / Â鶹ÊÓƵ Magazine

Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers use indents and boarders on plates to study how optical illusions help people choose smaller portions.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers build optical illusions into plates to see how they can help us choose smaller portions and ultimately lose weight. 

Ideastream talks with Â鶹ÊÓƵ Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress and infant mortality.

Ideastream® talks with Â鶹ÊÓƵ Psychology Professor Angela Neal-Barnett about the relationship between racial stress in black women and ways to reduce the stress before it affects pregnancy.

WKYC-TV talks with Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers about the Acting White Accusation.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Professor Angela Neal-Barnett shares her Acting White Accusation research with WKYC-TV and Anxiety.org.

 

Emelia Sherin, a public relations major in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Communication and Information, has written a play “Independent: The Heroin Project.â€

The New York Times highlights a Â鶹ÊÓƵ student who turned the heroin epidemic into a theatrical performance â€œIndependent: The Heroin Project.â€