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04 May NDSU health services students engage in real world opportunities

Posted at 16:32h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

When NDSU health services students placed Public Health 101 in their class schedules, they had no idea how the world would change, offering them real world education in real time. Andrea Huseth-Zosel and Stefanie Meyer co-teach the Introduction to Public Health course. The ongoing pandemic presented...

04 May College of Health Professions professor receives NDSU Mentoring Excellence Award

Posted at 16:29h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

Mark Strand, professor in the College of Health Professions, has been selected to receive NDSU’s Mentoring Excellence Award, which was established with the NDSU Foundation by an anonymous donor. Strand’s appointment is split between the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Department of Public Health. He advises...

30 Apr NDSU College of Health Professions announces faculty leadership roles

Posted at 20:27h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

NDSU’s College of Health Professions and School of Pharmacy have advanced three faculty members to leadership positions. Daniel Friesner was promoted to senior associate dean of the College of Health Professions, effective July 1. He will serve in the role upon Cynthia Naughton's retirement on June...

30 Apr More NDSU students to be trained COVID-19 contact tracers

Posted at 20:25h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

Another 100 NDSU students will be trained over several weeks to assist with contact tracing for the COVID-19 pandemic in North Dakota as businesses and other organizations plan to re-open. In addition to the initial NDSU graduate students in public health trained on how to help...

30 Apr NDSU alumnus co-writes children’s book on coping with the pandemic

Posted at 20:22h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

NDSU alumnus Tristan Pollock and his family decided a group project was a perfect way to pass the time during the pandemic. Using their collective talents, they have produced a children’s book titled “Stay At Home, Dog!” “We created ‘Stay at Home, Dog!’ to help families...

29 Apr NDSU faculty member quoted in online credit card story

Posted at 19:38h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

Fariz Huseynov, associate professor of finance, was featured in a recent WalletHub.com article. The article, titled “Best Credit Card Rates,” was written by John Kiernan, credit card editor. Huseynov was asked these questions: • Why are even the best credit card rates still so high? • What’s the best...

29 Apr Inspiring Teacher: Jim Deal, NDSU professor of human development and family science

Posted at 19:36h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

Jim Deal is a leading authority on delivering online education, and that’s vital as social distancing guidelines continue. Deal has a wealth of experience in distance learning. He has been active in the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance, a consortium of universities that provide online...

28 Apr NDSU educators focus on students during COVID-19 remote teaching

Posted at 19:12h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

As NDSU instructors transitioned online, their experiences had a similar theme – focus on the well-being of the students they teach. For example, Department of Plant Sciences faculty are doing their part to help students succeed by providing the best learning environment they can during this...

24 Apr NDSU faculty honored with communication award

Posted at 20:20h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

Daniel Kenzie, assistant professor of practice in the School of Pharmacy, and Mary McCall, assistant professor of English, received the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Technical and Scientific Communication Award for an article published in Technical Communication Quarterly. The article is titled “Teaching Writing for...

23 Apr NDSU student encourages volunteer letter writing to ease isolation of elders

Posted at 20:23h in Campus Happenings by hhotzler

Allison Bushaw, a first-year pharmacy student at NDSU, heard about a need during the coronavirus pandemic and couldn’t get it out of her mind. The NDSU College of Health Professions Ambassador learned from a family member working at a local senior living center how difficult the...

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