CHHS News

by: Darian Benson, WFYI Indianapolis Beth Wahler, director of the School of Social Work at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, works with public libraries across the country to understand their needs and suggests ways social workers may be able to help. Wahler said she has consistently found libraries to be central to their communities. […]

Professor Kathleen Jordan has been elected to the Board of Commissioners for the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB). AANPCB is an independent, nonprofit certifying body that provides programs to assess the professional competence of individuals wishing to enter, continue, or advance in the nurse practitioner (NP) profession. There are approximately 160,000 advanced […]

He couldn’t form a full sentence until he was 12. Now the UNC Charlotte alum helps cancer patients through exercise. The prostate cancer had returned when John McGuire met Chris Fitzmaurice ’09, ’12 M.S. It’s a stubborn disease that can hide away for years, then come back when you thought you had it beat. After […]

In America, the sports industry is estimated to be worth more than $500 billion. It’s also big business in Charlotte, where professional, collegiate and amateur sports and recreation inject more than $2 billion into the economy. As data analysis has become essential to professional and college sports, UNC Charlotte has emerged as a leader in […]

Catrine Tudor-Locke, dean of the UNC Charlotte College of Health and Human Services, has been selected as a member of the external advisory board of the Hanger Institute for Clinical Research & Education (Hanger Institute) in support of its efforts to advance the clinical practice of orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) and improve patient outcomes. The […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Kinesiology is now the Department of Applied Physiology, Health, and Clinical Sciences. The change comes at the end of a long research campaign aimed at settling on terminology that would enhance the possibilities for new programs, recruitment, enrollment potential and overall growth. “There’s inherently nothing wrong with the term ‘kinesiology,’” […]

UNC Charlotte will soon be able to build sustainable trauma-focused, resilience-oriented campus suicide prevention policies, programs and networks thanks to the three-year Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The grant totals about $300,000 over three years and will start on Sept. 30. “This was […]

Professor Judith Bacchus Cornelius PhD, MS, RN has been selected to be a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Induction into the Academy is a significant milestone in a nurse leader’s career in which their accomplishments are honored by their colleagues within and outside the profession. Fellows are selected based on their contributions and […]

David Bellar, chair of the UNC Charlotte Department of Kinesiology, has been named an inaugural editor of the Journal of Health and Physical Literacy. The Journal is affiliated with the newly launched National Academy of Health and Physical Literacy, which seeks to advance health and physical literacy for all individuals. “Dr. Bellar is an outstanding […]

Groups across the country are joining in recognition of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month and bringing awareness to the unique struggles that racial and ethnic minority communities face regarding mental illness. During National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Office of Minority Health is focusing on promoting tools […]