3/19/13: WCVB “Chronicle”, Shape up strategies for spring – Fad diets
Clinical Associate Professor of Nutrition Joan Salge Blake comments on fad diets. View Video
Category: Alumni
3/18/13: The Daily Free Press, Student group sells challah for charity
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior Jamie Levin established Boston University’s chapter of Challah for Hunger, which is a national organization present on many college campuses that bakes challah to sell and donates the proceeds to charity. Read the rest of this entry
3/16/13: Patriot Ledger, WENDY MURPHY: Gabby Giffords teaches us all to speak
As Former Congresswomen, Gabby Giffords continues to speak out about gun violence, Jerome Kaplan, speech language pathologist and clinician at the BU Aphasia Resource Center, discusses how it is easy for “people who don’t understand aphasia to see someone who can’t get the words out and assume they’re deaf or unintelligent”… Read the rest of […]
3/15/13: Boston.com, The Health Benefits of Beer
Clinical Associate Professor, Joan Salge Blake, promotes emerging research that reveals beer has some unique nutritional and health benefits… Read the rest of this entry
3/14/13: BU Today, BU Researchers, Nation’s Health Journalists Confer
A number of BU Faculty, including Sargent College’s assistant professor Theresa Ellis, have the chance to weigh in with the nation’s leading health care reporters on how the media can better cover the latest issues in their fields. Read the rest of this entry
3/13/13: WFXT, FDA warns of dangerous weight loss scams
Clinical Associate Professor, Joan Salge Blake, discusses advertising frauds related to weight loss products… View Video
3/12/13: Huffington Post, Nap Benefits: 6 Reasons To Snooze On National Napping Day
William Anthony, BU professor and director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, encourages “folks to take a nap wherever they may be, at home, at the workplace or on vacation, and to make it a regular part of their healthy lifestyle”… Read the rest of this entry
3/11/13: WBZ-TV, Stop pain with an office makeover
Karen Jacobs, Ed.D. of the Department of Occupational Therapy, shares some simple tips on how to rearrange your desk to eliminate neck and back pain… View Video
Cancer Survivor and Extreme Sports Enthusiast Jothy Rosenberg to Deliver Fifth Annual Meredith E. Drench Lecture
Talk entitled “Who Says I Can’t” to focus on the Psychosocial Aspects of Rehabilitation Entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, and extreme sports enthusiast Jothy Rosenberg, PhD, will deliver the 2013 Meredith E. Drench Lecture at Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College on April 11, 2013. His talk, titled after his book of […]
3/11/13: MSN.com, Protect your wallet — by taking a nap
Take advantage of National Napping Day, invented by Dr. William Anthony, a BU professor and director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. There are many reasons why a little extra sleep can pay off… Read the rest of this entry
3/28/13: Professional Development Symposium
All Sargent students are invited to our Professional Development Symposium on Thursday March 28, 5-8 p.m. on the 2nd Floor of Sargent College.There will be variety of career development opportunities throughout the evening including: Mock interviews with feedback provided (for employment, med, or grad school) – First Come, First Serve* Resume Review with feedback – […]
3/8/13: BU Today, Helping Women in India without Leaving Boston
Using Skype, email, and two intrepid research assistants, Eileen O’Keefe, a Sargent College clinical associate professor and director of the health science program, has been leading the India Research and Outreach Initiative for nearly two years… Read the rest of this entry
3/25/13: “Assessing the Affordable Care Act: Potential Effects on Access and Services among Persons with Disabilities”
Please mark your calendars and join us for the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation’s March seminar. The guest presenter is John Gettens, PhD, Disability, Health, and Employment Policy Group, Center for Health Policy and Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Wednesday, March 25th 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Large Conference Room […]
3/6/13: Daily Free Press, Allocations Board Funding Changes Draw Student Criticism
Sargent students, Anjali Taneja (SAR ’13), Katie Noel (SAR ’13), and Grace Hannawi (SAR ’13), voice concerns on both sides of new philanthropic policy to be instituted. Read the rest of this entry
3/6/13: ScienceNOW, Solving the ‘Cocktail Party Problem’
Jason Bohland, director of Boston University’s Quantitative Neuroscience Laboratory, featured in ScienceNOW. Read the rest of this entry