Fall 2020 Compliance Essentials
Are you aware of our new Fall 2020 University compliance items? Below is a quick checklist with essentials to get you in the know and ready for fall.
Category: Students
Postdoc Awarded NIDILRR Switzer Fellowship to Study Inclusion, LGBTQIA+ Adults with Autism
Postdoctoral Associate Elizabeth Schmidt was awarded a Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) for her project “Understanding Sexuality and Community Participation in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.” Switzer Research Fellowships support highly qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, to conduct high quality research on the rehabilitation of individuals […]
Message from Dean Moore: “We Stand in Solidarity”
Dear Sargent Community, In these most troubled days, we awaken under the weight of a virus that restricts almost every aspect of our daily lives, and, as Americans have on every morning for the last 400 years, to a culture founded upon, and imbued with, systemic racism. Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and jarring images […]
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences PhD Candidate Defne Abur Awarded NIH Grant
Defne Abur, a Sargent College PhD candidate in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences and graduate student fellow at BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH/NIDCD) for her work “motor phenotypes of Parkinson’s disease (postural instability […]
Occupational Therapy Student Named Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has named doctor of occupational therapy student Marial Williams a 2020 Graduate Summer Fellow. Williams will study the intersections of music and public health in relation to communicable diseases. Beginning May 2, Pardee’s Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to […]
Student POV: “What Will We Choose to Value in Light of COVID-19?”
(4/21/2020, BU Today) “Despite the unprecedented nature of the current COVID-19 relief packages, more still needs to be done to address the issues caused by the pandemic. Instead of addressing the social determinants of health and preparing for the next public health crisis, the bill works only to mitigate the impact of this crisis. Therefore, […]
To the Sargent College Class of 2020…
To the Sargent College graduating class of 2020, a huge congratulations from our faculty and staff in this video produced by the Sargent College Student Government! “On behalf of all of our Sargent Student Government officers, we want to congratulate the Class of 2020 on four years of hard work and dedication. Though this is […]
Post-Professional OTD Student Publishes on Ventricular Assist Devices, OTs Role
Post-professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy student Natasha Chandra used her Practicum in Social Policy & Disability to highlight occupational therapy’s important role in helping patients with Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs). VADs are a surgically implanted heart pump with internal and external equipment to assist the heart in pumping blood throughout the body. During Chandra’s practicum, […]
Student Puts her Passion for Sewing to Use, Making Masks for Healthcare Workers
(4/11/20, BU Today) Laura Stursberg (Sargent’21) is putting her considerable sewing skills to work helping in the battle against COVID-19. When BU moved all spring classes to remote learning, she returned to her family home. She began seeing local news stories about healthcare workers being forced to store their one-time-use disposable surgical masks in paper bags […]
Boston Globe: BU Group Looking for Hand Sanitizer Donations to Help Homeless
(3/27/20, Boston Globe) A new BU student club, Healthcare Improvement, is collecting hand sanitizer to donate to two programs for those without shelter: Boston Health Care for the Homeless and the Boston Rescue Mission. “When the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, we realized there would be populations and communities that would be disproportionately affected. We […]
SpotOn! Podcast: Meditate Through College and Beyond
This SpotOn! podcast hosted by Clinical Associate Professor of Nutrition Joan Salge Blake episode welcomes Sargent student Molly Pelletier and Dr. Ilana Licht for a discussion on how to incorporate meditation into your daily life. Listen to the episode.
Students and Faculty Present at APTA CSM Conference
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.
Daily Free Press: PhD Students Present at APTA Conference
(2/18/20, Daily Free Press) Students in Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences presented their research at the American Physical Therapy Association’s 2020 Combined Sections Meeting, a national conference that ran from Wednesday through Saturday.E llie Ottman and Jenna Zajec, both first year PhD students at Sargent, traveled to Denver, Colorado for the […]
BU Today: An Afternoon Inside Sargent’s Cadaver Lab
(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 […]
OT Researchers Work to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Maternal Health
(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 […]