(2/26/20, The Healthy) Expert Quote: For proper form, start a squat with your feet shoulder-width apart, toes pointing forward, knees behind your toes, and your head up. “When you lower your body, pretend you’re sitting in a chair, and keep your knees aligned over the second or third toes, but not beyond” – Karen Jacobs, […]
(2/28/20, BU Today) The Undergraduate Academic Advising Awards are given each year to advisors “who have engaged students in the collaborative process of advising and have had a significant impact on students’ academic careers.” Clinical associate professor of occupational therapy Nancy Lowenstein, who has been an advisor ever since coming to BU in 1999, knows […]
Students and faculty from our DPT and PhD programs presented their research at the American Physical Therapy Association’s 2020 Combined Sections Meeting in February.
(2/20/2020, WGBH) Expert Quote: “It’s not so much that it’s hard to say, it’s that it’s hard to know how to say it, the way it’s spelled,” said Boston University Professor of Phonetics Tyler Perrachione. “The ‘u’ makes a lot of different sounds, the ‘g’, you usually think of as a ‘guh’ so when we […]
Professor Helen Barbas and Graduate Program in Neuroscience student Mary Kate Joyce have created a detailed map of the neural pathways leading to and from area 25 in a nonhuman primate, a complex region known as the “sadness center” of the brain. “The pattern of connection is very important,” says Barbas. Read the article.
(12/18/19, BU Today) In a windowless room in the basement of Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, the day has finally arrived. It’s the Big Dissection. Two cadavers lie on gurneys in the back of the room under sharp fluorescent lights. Over the course of the semester so far, the graduate students have dissected […]
Wendy Coster, Professor and Chair in the Department of Occupational Therapy, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Presidents’ Commendation Award from The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) and The American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF). The rarely given accolade was established jointly by the governing Boards of both AOTA and AOTF to honor […]
(10/29/19, BU Today) “…even before a woman gets pregnant, there are opportunities for clinicians to reduce the health risks associated with future pregnancies. That’s the idea behind the Gabby Preconception Care System, a computer program designed to help make women healthier before pregnancy begins by improving access to preconception care, providing relevant information, and building […]
(11/18/19, The New York Times) Expert Quote: “Nationally, a growing number of programs called assertive community treatment provide the kinds of services offered in psychiatric hospitals but within a home setting, which works for ’a certain percentage’ of those with severe mental illness. ” – Dr. Kim T. Mueser Read the article
(11/19/19, BU Today) Thanksgiving can mean a table piled high with turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pies and more. In this Wellness Wednesday podcast, Clinical Associate Professor of Nutrition Joan Salge Blake talks to BU Today about how to make smart choices at the Thanksgiving table. Take a listen.
(11/25/19, U.S. News) Expert Quote: “The time of day that you eat your dinner may have an impact on how your body stores the excess calories from your feast. Research is suggesting that eating a higher percentage of your daily calories closer to the time you go to sleep may increase your body fat…Rather than […]
(11/25/19, Gizmodo) Expert Quote: “There is no one single disease that we will all be dying from in the future and what we are most at risk of will depend heavily on geography. While we have made great progress in controlling some of our biggest past killers, such as polio and the plague, there are […]
(11/18/19, The Boston Globe) Expert Quote: “’Milk’ used to refer to cow’s milk. But these days, milk is as likely to come from a plant as a cow. As milk choices proliferate, it’s important to know that not all milks offer equal health benefits.” – Clinical Professor Joan Salge Blake Read the article
Professorship Spans Two Continents and Three Generations Speech-language and hearing scientist Swathi Kiran has been named the inaugural James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation at Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation: Sargent College. Spanning two continents and three generations, the professorship was established by a $2.5 million gift from James and […]
Occupational Therapy Professors Ellen Cohn, Wendy Coster, and Gael Orsmond received the Community Partner Award from MAB Community Services/Ivy Street School. Beverly Brown, a member of the Ivy Street School board of directors and the director of development, industry at Boston University School of Public Health, presented the award. In her introduction, Brown praised the […]