Good News

Louisa Ramirez Forney, a nutrition-dietetics student graduating this June, recently received the Oregon Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award.

Hailey Zhou recently received the Oregon Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Hailey is currently in Oregon State University's dietetic internship program.

Kathleen “Kae” McCarty, PhD ’22, is being recognized as a Changemaker by the OSUAA for the impact she’s made on her field. Kae is a first-generation college graduate and has an innate passion for disability justice and health equity. 

Professor Chunhuei Chi is featured in a MoneyGeek article that looks into the variations in healthcare quality in different states. These questions focus on the causes of uneven health care quality, cost, and access across different states, and explore potential solutions and strategies to address these disparities.

Professor Chunhuei Chi is featured in a MoneyGeek article that looks into the nature of health insurance. These questions explore how health insurance providers function in various contexts, including serving rural communities, addressing administrative costs, impacting consumer options within the market, and influencing marketplace exchanges.

Public health alumna Diana Govier, faculty epidemiologist Yumie Takata, and Professor Denise Hynes, along with a team of collaborators, recently published Risk of Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in JAMA Network Open.

For IMPACT participants who may feel overwhelmed during gym activities, the new sensory room offers a quiet space to self-regulate with individualized sensory input. This has proven effective, as participants who have used the space have shown a significant improvement in their ability to engage and participate in the planned IMPACT sessions.

A group of Oregon State athletic training students successfully defended their quiz bowl championship at the annual NWATA meeting and symposium in Boise, Idaho on April 6.

On April 3, over 100 people gathered in person and online for OSU's Science Pub to hear an exciting presentation by Kinesiology Associate Professor Sean Newsom. His talk, titled "Promoting metabolic health via inhibition: Discovering new benefits of existing medications," took the audience on a fascinating journey through exercise physiology research.

Kara McElvaine, a human development and family sciences doctoral student, received the Thurgood Marshall Graduate Fellowship for the 2024-24 academic year. This fellowship, awarded by the Graduate School, is only offered to four graduate students across Oregon State University and will support Kara as she completes her dissertation, DEIB Interventions and White Racial Identity Development: Exploring Approaches for Advancing Equity in a New Jersey School District. Congratulations, Kara!

Allison Myers, associate dean for extension and engagement, was recently recognized at Moda Fantasy Day with the Portland Trail Blazers. Her years of partnership promoting health in Oregon and beyond deserve celebration. You're a natural trailblazer, Allison!

Professor Molly Kyle is one OSU researcher who will benefit from $667,500 in federal funds to develop toolkits and resources to boost wildfire smoke resiliency in Oregon. The EPA grant will bring together OSU's public health and engineering experts, as well as Smokewise Ashland, to develop practical smoke plans for schools. These plans are expected to empower them to prepare, react and recover from the impacts of wildfire smoke. Molly is currently leading a team developing and testing smoke plans for an Ashland Head Start program.