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Imagine getting lost in your own home or neighborhood. Imagine feeling disoriented, unsure of where you are or how you got there. For individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders or trauma – and more Americans than ever are diagnosed with these conditions each year – this “spatial disorientation” can be a daily occurrence and...
Sharon Moskowitz, an NIU graduate student, and Matt Wilson, assistant professor in the NIU School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders.
According to a 2013 report released by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, the reported number of individuals aged 19 and younger treated in U.S. emergency departments for concussions and other non-fatal, sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries increased from 150,000 in 2001 to 250,000 in 2009. The report also revealed sports associated...
NIU’s College of Health and Human Sciences will host a Graduate Colloquium from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, on “Obesity Across the Lifespan.” The colloquium will take place in Room 100 of Cole Hall. Presenters: Adolfo Ariza, research associate professor of pediatrics Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine “Infant Weight Gain and Obesity...
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The Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education’s FIT Program is an exercise program for NIU employees, family members, retirees and residents of the surrounding community. FIT membership is now being offered for $43 – prorated for the remainder of the semester. Membership in FIT includes access to cardio- and weight-training facilities in both Anderson Hall...
NIU’s campus Health & Wellness Fair, sponsored by the NIU Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and supported by the NIU administration, celebrates its 25th anniversary Wednesday, March 30. The fair takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Students, employees, retirees and community members are invited...
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Want to win prizes for working out and losing weight? Want to kick off the new year with the support necessary to improve health and fitness? Join NIU’s FIT Program during its Mid-Winter Meltdown. The Mid-Winter Meltdown is an exercise, nutrition and weight loss program available to NIU faculty, staff and the NIU community through...
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Spending too much time at your desk? Campus Recreation has the answer! Campus Recreation, dedicated to encouraging healthy, active lifestyles, challenges faculty and staff this year to take 30 minutes out of their day to add steps to their pedometer. Why walk? The American College of Sports Medicine recommends healthy adults fit in about 10,000...
Shumei Yun, chronic disease epidemiologist with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, will visit NIU at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, to talk on the state of childhood obesity. The lecture, which takes place in McMurry Hall 106, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the NIU PI Academy...
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DeKalb County Public Health Administrator Jane Lux and NIU Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Eric Weldy emailed NIU students, faculty and staff with an update on reported cases of mumps at the university. To our students, faculty and staff, The DeKalb County Health Department and Northern Illinois University Health Services wish to update...
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Collaboration is the name of the game in modern health research. Faculty in the School of Nursing and Health Studies (NUHS) are not only playing that game on a national level but they’re also winning. Over the last year, federal funding agencies have awarded nearly $20 million to four such collaborative projects, two led by...
Sanyu A. Mojola
Sanyu A. Mojola will speak Tuesday, Oct. 20, at NIU on “Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS.” The presentation, which begins at 6 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center, is free and open to the public. Mojola, a professor of sociology at the...
Nurses from the 1940s
NIU’s Regional History Center will host a reception Thursday, Oct. 15, in conjunction with its current “The Doctor Will See You Now: The History of Medical Science in Northern Illinois Communities” exhibition. In celebration of American Archives Month, the exhibit focuses on education, practice and public and mental health in northern Illinois from 1845 until...
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