Feature Stories
Oregon State University has received a grant of nearly $5 million to develop an obesity prevention and healthy lifestyle program for teenagers.
For more than 10 years, Public Health Assistant Professor Molly Kile has traveled to Bangladesh to research the human health effects of arsenic exposure from drinking contaminated water.
Surrounded by her family, Lois Phillips, taken to a restaurant in Portland under the guise of supporting a family member, was surprised with her official OSU diploma amid cheers and a few tears.
Celia Austin '76 returned to campus for Homecoming festivities and found herself surrounded by students and faculty who were eager to share their stories and hear her passion for cancer research and the ways she uses her education in her successful career and home life.
At the college, there is perhaps no stronger demonstration of synergy than what exists in a nearly four-year effort to become the first and only accredited college of public health and human sciences in Oregon.
Turner works alongside Endowed Director of the CHAR Karen Hooker as associate director, using a multidisciplinary approach to the study of aging. She's been studying American Indian aging issues for 13 years.
Lifetime Fitness for Health (HHS 231) directors are taking a new approach to the course and are redesigning it to better meet students’ needs by shifting from simply distributing knowledge about fitness and nutrition to facilitating behavior change in students’ lives.
Associate Professor Donna Champeau is a supporter, a source of inspiration and an advocate for Oregon State University’s public health graduate programs and their students’ success.
Are you the kind of person who jumps into action when someone is in need of help? Well, the CPHHS has a class – and degree – just for you! Students in the CPHHS’s Athletic Training Program learn to become first responders on and off the field.
Jacob Taskinen has taken his love for exercise to the next level by sharing his passion with others through fitness training. He teaches body pump, body blitz and core classes at Dixon Recreation Center at Oregon State University.
