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Kari Brossard Stoos, associate professor and associate chair of the Department of Health Sciences and Public Health, will be teaching three new health courses in Spring 2025 called Introduction to One Health, Let’s Talk about Periods and Antibiotic Resistance: The Creeping Pandemic. Brossard Stoos said these courses are an effort to educate health care leaders-in-the-making about the World Health Organization’s objectives and provide a space for students to discuss pressing global health care concerns. 

Q&A: Professor promotes conversations about global health concerns through new courses

By Prakriti Panwar, News Editor • December 4, 2024
Kari Brossard Stoos, associate professor and associate chair of the Department of Health Sciences and Public Health, is helping train future health professionals at Ithaca College by offering health courses that focus on concentrated topics about primary global health issues. 
Donald Simpson, special assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at the University of Louisiana Monroe, visited the college and engaged with faculty members Feb. 15.

Final dean candidate encourages more holistic admissions in presentation to HSHP faculty

By Vivian Rose, Assistant News Editor • February 16, 2024
Donald Simpson, special assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at the University of Louisiana Monroe, located in Monroe, Louisiana, was the third and final candidate for the dean search for the School of Human Health Sciences and Human Performance at Ithaca College.
Kristin Landis-Piwowar visited the campus community Feb. 12 to engage with students, staff and faculty of the college. She was the first candidate for the position to present and visit the college.

First HSHP Dean candidate presents ideas on equity strategies and interdisciplinary studies

By Vivian Rose, Assistant News Editor • February 13, 2024
Kristin Landis-Piwowar, associate provost for academic affairs at Oakland University located in Rochester, Michigan, was the first candidate for the Dean of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance to visit the Ithaca College campus and engage with the community. She presented Feb. 12 in the Klingenstein Lounge, with 17 campus community members in attendance, both faculty and staff.
Susan Salahshor, assistant professor and director of the physician assistant (PA) program, discussed how the role of practicing physician assistants has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

School of HSHP hosts discussion series about COVID-19 impact

By Luke Haworth, Contributing Writer • November 24, 2020
The Ithaca College School of Health Sciences and Human Performance (HSHP) is holding a series called “Conversations on COVID”.
In November, a group of students delivered health promotion lessons to youth at the Salamanca City Youth Center. They pose with snack bags they packed for the children.

Q&A: Professor brings students to teach health at NY youth center

December 3, 2019
The City of Salamanca is unique because it is one of the only U.S. cities located almost entirely within the Seneca Nation Territory.
The last students to complete the sport studies major, members of the classes of 2016–18, pose in front of the Dillingham Fountains in Fall 2015. The sport studies major is now only offered as a minor, and additionally Ithaca College faculty and administrators announced a proposal to split up the Department of Sport Management and Media April 29 during a town hall meeting.

Ithaca College to relocate sport management and media majors

By Danielle Allentuck, Sports Editor • May 2, 2016
During a meeting April 29, Ithaca College faculty and administrators announced a proposal to split up the Department of Sport Management and Media in an attempt to better organize the programs. However, students have criticized the decision, saying they feel they were not included in the process.
Stephen Mosher, coordinator of the Sport Studies minor program, teaches his Social Aspects of Sport class in 2014.

Open Letter: Sport Studies program should be reinstated

By Elijah Breton • April 27, 2016
I want to share with you the hypocrisies, inconsistencies, and lack of judgment the administration has displayed in eliminating Sport Studies.

HSHP faculty recommends no confidence vote

By Evan Popp, Staff Writer • November 5, 2015
School of Health Sciences and Human Performance faculty members have voted in support of asking Faculty Council to conduct an all-faculty vote of no confidence in President Tom Rochon.
Mara Baldwin, director of the Handwerker Gallery, and Carla Golden, professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, participate at the Oct. 27 meeting in the Athletics and Events Center.

H&S and Park School faculty recommend no confidence vote

By Grace Elletson and Kyle Arnold • November 4, 2015
In the wake of faculty discussions about initiating a vote of no confidence in President Tom Rochon, two out of five schools have voted for recommending Faculty Council conduct a vote, while one has voted against holding such a vote.
Stephen Mosher, coordinator of the Sport Studies major and minor programs, teaches his Social Aspects of Sport class April 27 in Hill 75.

Sport Studies major to discontinue after fall semester

By Taylor Zambrano, Assistant News Editor • September 2, 2014
This semester will mark the last time a student will have the chance to claim a sport studies major at Ithaca College.

HSHP Dean named interim provost

May 13, 2014
Linda Petrosino ’77, M.S. ’78, dean of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, has been named interim provost and vice president for educational affairs.
Sixth-year physical therapy students practice on each other during the Prosthetics and Orthotics lab class on April 25 at the Rochester Center.

Rochester Center sees last physical therapy students

By Kayla Dwyer, Assistant News Editor • April 30, 2014
The Ithaca College physical therapy graduate program will see its last cohort of students conclude their collegiate careers at the Rochester Center.
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