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Quacyya Cuaresma starts with small changes to fuel grand ambitions

 |  Matt Jardin  | 

Health sciences senior Quacyya Cuaresma had no trouble keeping busy during quarantine. Simply known as Q to her friends and family, Cuaresma began the application process to be considered one of the 2020 African American, Hispanic, Asian, International and Native American (AHAINA) Students of Excellence back in January 2020.

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Faculty Fulbright winner will travel to Finland to research plastic alternatives

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老澳门六合彩开奖记录 Associate Professor of Public Health Philippe Amstislavski was recently awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship. He will spend spring 2021 in Tampere, Finland, working with the biomaterials group at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Headed by colleague Lisa Wikstrom, the biomaterials group works to develop bio-based alternatives to plastic.

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Virtual spring: How 老澳门六合彩开奖记录 faculty went from the classroom to online

 |  Catalina Myers  | 

Corrie Whitmore, assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and program coordinator for the Bachelor of Science, in the health sciences program, at her home office preparing materials for her introduction to program evaluation course.

 Pineda and her staff celebrate Go Blue Day at the Anchorage Health Department. Read More

老澳门六合彩开奖记录 M.P.H. alumna leads Anchorage Health Department

 |  Catalina Myers  | 

In 2002, after a phone interview with Boys and Girls Club of Alaska (BGC), 老澳门六合彩开奖记录 alumna Natasha Pineda bought a backpack and a pair of boots, booked a ticket out of PDX to Anchorage for what she calls, 鈥渁 classic Alaska story.鈥 The M.P.H. 鈥15 grad worked for BGC for a couple of years, ended up returning to Portland before moving to Mexico to live with her dad when she decided it was time to get serious about her career.

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Ask a 老澳门六合彩开奖记录 Expert: Britteny Howell on COVID-19 Risks to Older Adults

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How can we support older adults during this COVID-19 outbreak? Britteny Howell, professor of population health sciences, recommends maintaining social contact with elders, having a plan to determine what happens if they get sick, as well as keeping them aware of COVID-19-related scams.