BY STEPHANIE ROTONDO What does a dietitian eat the night before the Boston Marathon? “Usually pizza,” says Ming Cheung (CAS ’08, SAR ’14). On April 20, the Framingham, Mass. native runs his eighth marathon – his fourth in Boston – to support Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Needham (BIDN). After graduating from Sargent College with a Master […]
(4/17/15) AT/DPT Nick Wendel (SAR ’13, ’15) trained and coached BU freshman Rachel Harrison for her first marathon. Harrison is running the Marathon for Goodwill’s Youth Initiative. View Full Article.
Joan Salge Blake quoted in A Woman’s Health. Expert quote: “Americans are not getting enough fruits and vegetables in their diet which means they’re falling short of fiber and potassium, among other nutrients, and they’re having trouble managing weight.” View full article
In a new study, Clinical Professor of Health Sciences Eileen O’Keefe, SAR alumnus Jeremy Meltzer (SAR ’13, SPH ’14), and colleagues from Boston University Sargent College and Slone Epidemiology Center, report major changes in cancer mortality in African Americans and Caucasians during the first decade of the 21st century. The researchers analyzed representative nation-wide data from […]
Dr. Sudha Arunachalam, assistant professor in the department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and director of the BU Child Language Lab, has received the prestigious 2015 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship Award. Arunachalam will use the grant to fund travel to South Korea where she’ll extend her research with American and Korean toddlers, […]
(4/13/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “There’s no literature to suggest that you can by cutting certain foods out of your diet reset your hormones.” View Full Article and Video.
(4/9/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake looks at a new French law to protect fashion models. View Full Article.
(4/7/15) Anna Kasdan from the Aphasia Research Lab presented her TEDxBU talk: “Music Moves You” on Saturday, April 4. View Full Article.
(4/4/15) Larry Kohn, director of development at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, quoted. Expert quote: “You can’t tell this illness to go away. It comes back in people; it’s not a linear progression, like a lot of physical maladies are. But [through support groups], you can learn to manage the illness instead of having the illness […]
(4/2/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake interviewed. Watch Video.
(3/30/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake looks at new research. View Full Article.
(3/24/15) A new study from Professor Swathi Kiran and the Aphasia Research Lab shows iPads can help people with aphasia make a comeback. View full article.
(3/23/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake breaks down the benefits of coconut oil. View Full Article.
(3/19/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “What people are saying is, ‘I know I should be eating better. I feel bad about that, but I either don’t want to do it or I don’t have the motivation. I’m going to get a multivitamin and that’s going to make me feel a […]
(3/16/15) Clinical Professor Karen Jacobs quoted: “We’re offering ways that we can lighten the load — it’s not just the weight of the backpack that’s the issue. It’s how the child is carrying the backpack…Just having legislation to have a backpack not weigh more than 10 percent of a child’s body weight isn’t really looking […]