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The Marathon Training Class recently had students competing in two marathons. On Saturday, November 21^st , nine students traveled to Overland Park, KS to compete in the Gobbler Grind Marathon. Two students completed the full 26.2 mile race while 7 students completed the 13.1 miles. On Saturday, December 4^th,  16 students traveled to Memphis, TN to participate in the Memphis St Jude Marathon. Ten students ran the full marathon and 6 ran the half. Anastasia Crites, a sophomore communications major from St. Louis, MO, placed first in the 15-19 age group.  Click here to see more pictures from both marathons.

Evan Rioux was chosen to join the Apple Wellness team as the one Wellness Intern in Cupertino, California for the Fall of 2010. While she gained over 500 hours of experience in the preventative care setting, she focused her attention on daily physicals, health assessments, fitness consultations, and graded exercise tests that were offered to the thousands of Apple employees. Congratulations to Evan on the completion of this outstanding experience.

Missouri Foundation for Health awarded a Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative (TPCI) grant to Dr. Carol Cox of Truman State University in the amount of $145,411. Dr. Cox plans to use grant funding to reduce faculty, staff and student tobacco use through cessation programs, policy change and education.

Missouri Foundation for Health’s TPCI is a multi-year effort to reduce tobacco use in the state through a variety of funding strategies.  MFH grant funding supports nonprofit organizations that work to improve the health of thousands of Missourians. Established in 2000, MFH is the largest nongovernmental funder of community health activities in Missouri.  MFH is in its eighth year of grantmaking, having issued more than $390 million in grants and awards to date.  It is dedicated to improving the health of unserved and underserved residents in 84 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis.

Students in HLTH 150 Nutrition in Health and Wellness helped to unload a semi-trailer load of food for the Salvation Army Food Pantry on October 25, 2010.  They formed assembly lines to unload the trailer and pack the perishable (meats, cheese, apples, potatoes) and non-perishable (rice, pasta, canned vegetables) foods in the food pantry.  This effort was part of their assigned nutrition service-learning activities for the community.

Dr. Jennifer Hurst competed in the 2010 Larry Hanneman Memorial Olympic Weight Lifting  Tournament on October 16^th in St. Joseph, MO.  She achieved personal records in both the Snatch (67 kilograms) and Clean & Jerk (89 kilograms), successfully totaling 156 kilograms and qualifying for the 2010 American Open.  The American Open will be held in Cincinnati, OH on December 10-12, 2010.

Katie Martin (left), Exercise Science major, and Kristen Siegler (right), Health Science major, were recently chosen by the Health and Exercise Sciences as Truman’s student of the year for the Missouri Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (MOAHPERD).  Katie Martin was chosen as the Future Professional Major of the Year for Exercise Science.  Kristen Siegler was chosen as the Future Professional Major of the Year for Health Science.  As the recipients of this honor, Katie and Kristen will be acknowledged at the MOAHPERD awards banquet on Saturday, November 13 at the Lodge of the Four Seasons in Lake Ozark, MO.  Congratulations to Katie and Kristen on this outstanding award!

On October 14, 2010, 32 Health Science students who are members of the Student Public Health Association (SPHA) attended the national conference of the American School Health Association (ASHA).  They are pictured in the Crown Center Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, MO.  To attend, they raised money for bus transportation by selling purple HES t-shirts, and served as student monitors for the ASHA council luncheon workshops.  While at the conference, they heard the keynote speaker, Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education discuss bullying and harassment  in his “Creating ‘Truly Safe’ Schools” presentation.

Aaron Decker, 2004 graduate in Exercise Science, was recently named Head Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Coach/HHP Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Prior to taking the position at UWRF, Decker served as an assistant coach at Trinity Christian College (NAIA), Head Coach of Track and Field at North Park University (NCAA) in Chicago, and also taught graduate courses in biomechanics and exercise physiology at Northern Illinois University.

Aurora Powell (left) and Katy Modlin (right) have recently been selected as Still Scholars.  Aurora and Katy are both Junior Health Science majors. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!

The Still Scholars, Pre-Osteopathic Program is designed to provide admission opportunities to outstanding students of Truman State University who have as their goal to become Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine. The program is conducted under joint collaboration of Truman State University and A.T. Still University (ATSU), Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCOM).

Under this program, Truman State University students apply to the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine at the end of their sophomore year. A maximum of five students will be awarded reserved admissions to KCOM at the beginning of their junior year at Truman State University. Students complete their junior and senior year earning a BA/BS degree prior to matriculating to KCOM.  The advantage for those students accepted at the end of their sophomore year is to have a reserved seat in KCOM’s entering class upon graduation from Truman State University.

The annual Mother-Son Stampede, a family-strengthening event based on the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets/Positive Youth Development Model, was held on September 30th at the Truman State University Farm. Coordinated by the Heartland Task Force/C2000 Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition with program planning and implementation assistance from Truman’s Eta Sigma Gamma National Professional Health Science Honorary, boys and their moms actively participated in hayrides, archery, obstacle course, soccer, cider press, pumpkin patch, cowboy lasso, bb gun shooting, educational/Asset booth as well as enjoying dinner and s’mores around the campfire. The activities and booths were staffed by HES volunteers including: Liz Jorn, Evonne Bird and Melody Jennings ES 190 classes and the  Cardinal Key Honor Society (Service Sorority).