CNHS NewsletterFall 2018

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Dean Greenwood's Note

Colleagues,

I am happy to formally announce the new Mission Statement and Mottoof the College of Natural and Health Sciences, which is now posted on theCNHS website at: http://www.ut.edu/naturalandhealthsciences/mission/The mission statement was approved without dissent at the OctoberCNHS meeting. Thank you to all who were involved in the discoveryprocess last year, and to those who helped write, critique, edit, and rewritethe final products. I look forward to using the mission statement to informour strategic thinking throughout the year.

CNHS Mission Statement: The College of Natural and Health Sciences(CNHS) offers a rigorous, high-quality curriculum to prepare a diversepopulation of students for the rapid advances in science, healthcare andsport studies. The faculty and staff provide a transformative educationembedded in a culture of respect and positivity, which prepares studentsfor the challenges and opportunities they will encounter. Throughpartnerships, collaborations and connections, our faculty, staff andstudents engage in research, clinical practice and scholarship, interactiveand experiential inquiry, and internship learning opportunities thatcultivate success.

Motto : Connect – Transform – Succeed

Cordially,

Faculty Presentations

Professor Jeffrey Fasick engaged many UT studentsand professors in his honors presentation entitled "TheUrban Whale: Science and Conservation of the NorthAtlantic Right Whale".

On October 26th, Professor Johnna Yealy (PAProgram Dept. Chair) and Professor Todd Doran (PAProgram Director of PA Admissions/DirectorEvaluation and Assessment) joined Dr. Auth,Department Chair of the Drexel PA Program to lead apresentation the Physician Assistant EducationAssociation’s national annual conference in AnaheimCalifornia. The presentation entitled “The Perfect PAFaculty Workload Allocation: Chasing Unicorns andOther Myths,” was highly attended and generated muchdiscussion. There is a complex balance betweenresources and expectations when calculating PA facultyworkloads. The discussion included the application of aworkload formula to various institutional settings.

In October 2018, the PA faculty participated in the2018 Physician Assistant Education Association’sAnnual Education Forum in Anaheim California.Faculty, Johnna Yealy, Kimberly Mularoni, GregBurns, Marisa Belote and Allison Kaczmarek joinedPA faculty from across the nation to acquire new skills,network with colleagues, collaborate with new partners,and exchange innovative ideas.

Faculty and Student Research

Professor Claudia Aguado-Loi recently published anarticle entitiled Unpacking Hispanic Ethnicity—CancerMortality Differentials Among Hispanic Subgroups inthe United States, 2004–2014. Frontiers in PublicHealth.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00219/abstract

Professor Nauris Tamulevicius presented at theAmerican College of Sports Medicine Annual Meetingand World Congress on Exercise is Medicine, May 29-June 2, 2018, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Co-authors ofpresentation: Tamulevicius N., Wadhi T., Daniels E.A.,

Oviedo G.R., Baeder S. (underlined are UT students).Presented paper entitled: Electromagnetic FieldApplication Effects on Recovery and Power afterSport-Specific Exercise Intervention: Feasibility Study.https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2018&issue=05001&article=02655&type=Fulltext

Professor Nauris Tamulevicius received InternationalPrograms Award to travel to South Africa in May 2018.During his trip he visited five universities and workedon several research projects. At the North WestUniversity (NWU), Potchefstroom, ProfessorTamulevicius visited the program that he created in2015. The program targets low-socioeconomicenvironment and physical activity as preventativemeasure for non-communicable disease. At NWU Dr.Tamulevicius worked on several papers with Prof. S.J.Moss.During this visit, Professor Tamulevicius accepted theservice as an area co-editor for South African Journal forResearch in Sport, Physical education and Recreation(SAJRSPER) for a five years term.At University of Pretoria, University of West Cape,University of Cape Town, and Stellenbosch UniversityDr. Tamulevicius discussed collaborative researchopportunities.Pictured to the right is Emily Daniels (undergrad, class2018) and Tanuj Wadhi (Graduate, class 2018) at theAmerican College of Sports Medicine annual meeting,Minneapolis.

Professor Kristine White attended the 4th Asia PacificCoral Reef Symposium in Cebu City, Philippines, thisJune, where she presented the research she completedwith two recently graduated students, Katherine Duvaland Kevin Travis. The research involved the molecularconfirmation of two invasive amphipod crustaceanspecies in Hawaii, U.S.A., Okinawa, Japan, California,U.S.A., and New Zealand. It also confirmed the likelyintroduction of this species through fouling on the hullsof U.S. military vessels. This research was funded by aDelo grant through UT.The first is a Behind the Science feature interview I didabout some research I was involved in on a mesophoticcoral reef.http://www.mesophotic.org/posts/33

Community Involvement

The Student Members of the American ChemicalSociety, led by seniors Lindsay Truesdale andRachael Kurlander, hosted the Professional PathwaysForum on October 4 in the Music Room. A panel oflocal professionals entertained questions from studentsabout their training, jobs, and their paths to their ownsuccess. The panelists included the HillsboroughCounty Chief Medical Examiner, an industry product

They also held an outreach event at the Glazer’sChildren’s Museum as part of the Halloween Spreewith Tampa Riverwalk. UT undergraduates and USFgraduate students teamed up to demonstrate spookychemistry experiments to celebrate National ChemistryWeek and Halloween.

specialist, a sixth grade Pinellas County teacher, a UTprofessor and a USF professor. Career Services StudentAmbassador, Zachary Walker, was their to provideadvice on utilizing resources that are available tostudents on campus. It was a terrific social settingwhere all guests had a chance to relax, enjoy each other'scompany, and learn something new!

Pedagogical Strategies

HSC 350 Biostatistics Class utilized their data analysisskills to conduct descriptive statistics on data from theNational College Health Assessment. Following theanalysis the students developed infographics to transferand display this data into a graphic visualrepresentation that allows readers to readilycomprehend the data. Pictured to the right are the twosections of Biostatistics students and their infographics.

Professor Tracy Zonek's public health policy classengaged local community member Marshall Deason, aboard-certified real estate lawyer from the firm Older,Lundy & Alvarez, in HSC 440 – Public Health Policyand Social Change class. They had a spirited legislativedebate about prohibiting hookah establishments. SeniorBella Lumia posed as the legislator who sponsored thebill “Hookah Bar Prohibition Act” which wouldprohibit hookah bars and make it a third degree felonyto operate one. Other students role played as legislatorswith various issues such as needing money for re-

election or supporting a rural religious community. Theremaining students posed as lobbyists from theAmerican Cancer Society, American Heart Association,Chamber of Commerce, College and UniversityStudents Association and Hookah Manufacturers andOperators Association.

Alumni News

Cecily Wood graduated from UT in 2012. She startedher Ph. D. work in Microbiology at the University ofMiami, Ohio in August 2013. She is defending herdissertation in December, 2018. She published her firstpaper recently.https://iai.asm.org/content/86/9/e00442-18

During her tenure at UT Cecily was also on the Crewteam and was a cross-fit competitor and has beencompeting in the strong woman competitions whilepursuing her graduate studies.Cecily commented, "I study a human pathogenAcinetobacter baumannii in the lab of Luis Actis. Westudy how the pathogen senses and responds to itssurroundings to modulate it’s physiology, particularlytowards light. As an undergraduate, I thought medical school wasalways the plan. But then I took Professor Kucera'sgenetics course and the micro and immuno coursestaught by Professor Williams and I knew I had to goto graduate school. They have made such an incredibleimpact on my future. I still use them and their coursesas examples when I teach my students. There is not oneweek that goes by when I can’t relate an experience Ihad as a student in their course to something relevantnow as a graduate student and mentor. They wereexcellent role models and are still the most insightful andinfluential people I have met."

Important Dates

Important Dates

UT Master CalendarUT Academic Calendar

Wednesday, November 21- Thanksgiving BreakSaturday, December 8- Last day of Fall ClassesSaturday, December 15- Fall CommencementMonday, December 17- Fall Grades Due

Dean Greenwood's Starbucks out-of-office hoursare 9:30-10:30am each day as noted below.

Wednesday, November 7Thursday, November 29

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