CHPS News
Physical Therapy
UCF Go Baby Go! Builds New Partnership with St. Joseph Children’s Hospital
UCF Go Baby Go! builds more than innovative motorized cars that increase mobility in children, it also builds community by bringing children of all mobility...
Athletic Training
Phillip Croak: Athletic Training Preceptor of the Month for October 2020
Phillip Croak is the Athletic Trainer Preceptor of the Month for October 2020. We are pleased to announce that Phillip Croak, assistant athletic trainer for...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
CSD Grad Students and DPT Students Team Up To Expand Learning in Anatomy Lab
Graduate students in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program teamed up with doctoral students in the Physical Therapy program to learn together in a joint,...
Health Sciences
Pandemic Presents Unique Research Opportunity for Studying Unhealthy Behavior in Kids
In early March, Keith Brazendale began gathering initial data for his research project on the factors and behaviors that contribute to weight gain among children living in rural areas. After completing the first...
Kinesiology
Graduate Kinesiology Student Gets Strength from Law Scholarship
Maxine Furtado is the first recipient of the Jeffrey D. Law Memorial Scholarship for students in the kinesiology M.S. program. Recently, she was able to...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Sign of the Times: Deaf Instructor Teaches Sign Language Online
About half a million people in the United States know American Sign Language, but Bill Cooper, UCF’s only ASL instructor, is changing that – 250 students at a time. Cooper, who...
Health Sciences
New Research Focused on Healthy Eating Habits in Those with Autism Receives Grant from Sprouts Farmers Market
At left, Jennifer Wolf, UCF Associate Director of Development for CHPS, accepts a check from Andrew Linehan, manager for Sprouts Farmers Market. Jeanette Garcia, an assistant professor...
Social Work
UCF professor Kim Gryglewicz is committed to making a difference
A UCF professor said she was motivated to find her calling after a dark period in her family. Kim Gryglewicz lost her first cousin, who...
Kinesiology
Online Jiu Jitsu Teaches Important Lesson for Students Grappling with the Pandemic
When Antonio “Ricardo” Liborio, a world-champion Brazilian jiu-jitsu sixth-degree black belt, introduced the sport to the University of Central Florida in 2018, his goal was...
Physical Therapy
New Course Teaches Physical Therapy Students the Science of Pain
To better address the growing opioid epidemic and evidence of the important role that physical therapists play in caring for patients with pain, UCF’s physical...
