The Sargent Service Learning Program offers our students a unique opportunity to participate in faculty led service-learning experiences which promote health education, empower communities, and cultivate educated compassionate global citizens. Students will have the opportunity to leverage their classroom knowledge to assist health care providers and community health workers in delivering basic healthcare needs to […]
Department of Health Sciences Presents: Addressing Non-communicable Diseases in Vulnerable Populations: Diabetes Education in Belize and Mental Health Needs of HIV+ Women in Alabama Shelley Brown, MPHClinical Instructor in Health SciencesBoston University Wednesday, December 4th 12:00PM-1:00PM SAR 220, 635 Commonwealth Avenue Host: Dr. Eileen O’Keefe Lunch will be provided
(11/26/13) Featured Boston.com blogger Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake discusses ways to safely make Thanksgiving stuffing. View full article.
(11/26/13) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake offers her point of view on a plan to cook less, give more this Thanksgiving. View full article.
Can Acoustic Measures of Speech Predict Expert Diagnosis of Acquired Apraxia of Speech? Kirrie Ballard, Ph.D.Associate Professor in Speech PathologyThe University of Sydney The Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Research Colloquium Series Monday, December 2nd 5:00pm SAR 220, 635 Commonwealth Avenue
(11/21/13) Featured Boston.com blogger Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake discusses ways to reduce calories and give back this Thanksgiving. View full article.
As you know, the annual May luncheon and awards ceremony has been a longstanding tradition for Sargent College. It is our goal to make the celebration a memorable experience, a chance to reflect on Sargent’s rich history while integrating the traditions of the University as a whole. At the recommendation of the Sargent College Alumni […]
(11/18/13) Featured Boston.com blogger, Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake discusses the health benefits of white foods. View full article.
(11/19/13) University officials recently appointed a diverse group of faculty and staff to find a successor to Gloria Waters, former dean of Sargent College, who stepped down last June to assume her new role as BU vice president and associate provost for research. View full article.
(11/18/13) Assistant Professor Sudha Arunachalam quoted. Expert quote: “Arunachalam said that the only information provided was linguistic and that their goal was to determine whether 2-year-olds, on hearing new verbs in informative sentences, could use their syntactic content alone to map the novel verbs to meaning, even though no social or visual information was available.” […]
(11/17/13) Assistant Professor Sudha Arunachalam quoted. Expert quote: “The only information provided was linguistic. Our goal was to determine whether 2-year-olds, on hearing new verbs in informative sentences, could use their syntactic content alone to map the novel verbs to meaning, even though no social or visual information was available.” View full article.
(11/16/13) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “‘The pure act of eating and digesting increases your resting metabolic rate—the number of calories your body burns just to support basic functions like thinking, breathing, and talking’, says Joan Salge Blake, clinical associate professor of nutrition at Boston University and the author of Nutrition […]
(11/15/13) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “So the FDA says OK, if you want to use those terms . . . low sodium would be no more than 140mg, and reduced sodium will have 25% less than the original.” View video.
(11/13/13) BU’s health and medical education programs have been named among the top 100 worldwide in the 2013–2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The influential survey ranked BU 22nd for clinical, preclinical, and health programs, an advancement from 29th place last year. View full article.
Evidence Toddlers May Benefit from Overhearing Contexts Language acquisition has traditionally been considered a social, interactive process. However, new research from Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College reveals that toddlers are able to acquire the meanings of words even in “socially impoverished contexts” where social or visual information is absent. Sudha […]