VOLUME 9

Health Matters Matters!

Inside this issue:

http://www.uncw.edu/hahs/

Welcome 1

Wellness Corner 2

Faculty Spotlight 3-4

SHAHS NEWS

Pine Valley Elem 5

Healthy Families Night 5

Athletic Training Class 5

Symposium 6

Paws4People 6

Fire Department 6

Susan G. Komen 7

Biggest Loser 7

Wellness 8

Geriatric team 8

ELITE Cycling 9

4K for Cancer 9

YOGA 10

YWCA 10

Alzheimer’s Walk 10

MOU Signings 11

Senior Challenge 11

SHAHS Events 13

Student letter 14

Kudos & Graduates 14

Pictures 15

Mission/Values 16

With the cold weather not hitting us for a few months this is the perfect opportunity to work on our overall wellness. Here are a few of my wellness tips so that we can all enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

Wellness Tips

*Physical Activity* (minimum requirements each week)

2 hours and 30 minutes (150 minutes) of moderate-intensity aerobic activity - i.e., brisk walking, riding a bike,

water aerobics, playing doubles tennis…

OR

1 hour and 15 minutes (75 minutes) of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity - i.e., jogging or running, swimming

laps, playing singles tennis, playing basketball…

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

*Hydration*

Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate! The Institute of Medicine determined that an adequate intake (AI) for men is roughly 3.7 liters (about 15.6 cups) of total beverages a day. The AI for women is 2.7 liters (about 11.4 cups) of total beverages a day.

Monitor fluid loss by checking the color of your urine. It should be pale yellow and not dark yellow or

cloudy.

Drink water before, during, and after exercise.

Eat at least five cups of fruits and vegetables per day, as they all contain various levels of water. Wilmington

Riverfront Farmers’ Market opens Saturday, April 5, 2014 8:00 am – 1:00 pm. Wrightsville Beach Farmers’

Market opens Monday, May 5, 2014 8:00 am – 1:00 pm

Sources: Institute of Medicine, Live Science

*Sun Protection and Skin Care*

Sun protection is essential to skin cancer prevention – about 90 percent of non-melanoma skin cancers and 65 percent of melanomas are associated with exposure to UV radiation from the sun. The hours between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. CDC recommends the following for protection from UV radiation—

Wear clothing that covers your arms and legs.

Wear a hat with a wide brim to shade your face, head, ears, and neck.

Use sunscreen with sun protective factor (SPF) 15 or higher, and both UVA and UVB protection.

Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Skin Cancer Foundation

Dr. Nancy Hritz had two students that received CSURF Scholarships. John Batchelor and Steven Brewington represented our school with Nancy at the Resort and Commercial Recreation Association at Amelia Island, Florida this past November.

Dr. Steve Elliott was selected as the 2014 University Teacher of the Year by the Physical Education Association (PEA) of the North Carolina Association for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NCAAHPERD), this award reflects exemplary teaching and a commitment to the discipline of physical education. Steve joins another SHAHS faculty member Dr. Sue Combs as recipients of this award!

Congratulations to our own Dr. Lynn Hunt-Long on AAHPERD’s acceptance of her mini session titled Student Athletes’ Perceptions of Sexual Harassment! Lynn presented the first week of April in St. Louis.

Dr. Darwin Dennison was recently selected by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) to co-chair (with Dan Duquette from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse) its Public Health Nutrition, Community of Practice (CoP).

Congratulations to Jorge Figueroa for having his abstract selected for a poster

presentation at the Society for Public Health Education’s (SOPHE) 65th Annual

Meeting, Discovery 2014: New Health Education Strategies, Connections & Ideas.

Dr. John Bennett has accepted a book contract with Human Kinetics Publishers for a third edition of one of his dance books. This publisher is arguably the biggest publisher in the profession worldwide. The book was recently published in Spanish in Spain.

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Spivey, Mr. Jeff Nix, Dr. Candy Ashton, and Ms. Kyria Henry who each received eTEAL funding for applied learning projects in their classes. This funding supports work with the Police Athletic League, Wilmington’s Residential Adolescent Achievement Place (WRAAP), and paws4people which are just three examples of the incredible work our School is doing in the community.

Dr. Robert Boyce and Dr. Wayland Tseh mentored 10 students whose research projects were accepted at the Southeastern American College of Sports Medicine! This is but one example of the outstanding work we do to mentor students and facilitate their learning in highly engaged ways.

Congratulations to Dr. Alexia Franzidis and Dr.Wayland Tseh (second time) for their selection as 2013 Discere Aude Award recipients. The Discere Aude Award recognizes faculty who were nominated for the award directly by students on the Chancellor's Achievement Award List.

Pictured in the middle is Dr. Randall Cottrell, Professor and Program Coordinator for Public Health Studies, receiving the Eta Sigma Gamma Honor Award. To the left of Dr. Cottrell is Dr. Liliana Rojas Guyler who nominated Dr. Cottrell for the award and to the right is Dr. Ranjita Misra, Eta Sigma Gamma Board member who presented the award. The Eta Sigma Gamma Honor Award is presented to individuals who have made major contributions to the health education profession through service, education, and/or research. It is the highest award given by Eta Sigma Gamma. He received the award October 11th at the American School Health Association's National Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Pine Valley Elementary School Visit SHAHS recently had 100 5th grade students from Pine Valley Elementary in our building learning about the various systems of the human body with some of our faculty and students. The Pine Valley teachers were so complimentary of the experience and the 5th graders clearly loved their time.

Healthy Families Night For the 3rd year in a row, Dr. Kerry Whipple’s CHE students have implemented Healthy Families Night at Belville Elementary School. This event is open to all students and parents at Belville Elementary. The event consists of interactive displays promoting all areas of health, obstacle courses, yoga, and a healthy snack. This year about 50 families came out to enjoy the fun.

Athletic Training Class Faculty member Ms. Andrea Bender had to think outside the box to come up with this terrific idea. Her ATR students created their own wounds! Then they practiced the proper techniques for wound care and reviewed tips on preventing blood borne pathogen transmission.

9th Annual State of NC Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium Dr. Boyce, Dr. Tseh and the following students: Matt Hamilton, Ariana Lipp, David Wolff, Angila Berni, Taylor Milleson, Morgan Eudy, and Colby Fordham, attended the conference for their outstanding work on their research studies.

Paws4People highlighted in a Star News Article and on Time Warner Cable News! Paws4People is a program piloted by UNCW and pairs disabled people with service dogs in training. Dogs are trained from puppies all the way up to adulthood. When they finish the program, they go to help those with physical and mental disabilities as well as veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

EXS Students support New Hanover County Fire Department Current/Alumni EXS students and Men Ink Magazine reach out to support the New Hanover County Fire Rescue Department. The main purpose of this community service was to provide baseline data for the newly-designed obstacle course.

Faculty and Staff of SHAHS participated in the Susan G. Komen CHHS Race for the Cure

Biggest Loser Challenge Cape Fear Elementary teachers joined a weight

loss challenge modeled loosely on "The Biggest

Loser" TV show. Many benefited from the

program, which was run by Chris Wirszyla, the

school's physical education teacher and his

intern Jake Doster who is a SHAHS student. Jake

is pictured to the right.

SCUBA Speaker Series The SCUBA Speaker Series hosted hundreds of people from the UNCW campus and local community this past fall. During this event the Shawn Nasseri Scholarship for Outstanding student in Recreation, Sport Leadership and Tourism Management was awarded. This award was created by Mr. Shawn Nasseri, owner of Scuba Now and Principal and Founder of Computer Soft, LLC. Mr. Nasseri feels that tourism is vital to our community and would like to give back to the university by assisting students. The gift is an award of $2500.00. The award is a competitive one based on academic excellence and dedication to their chosen industry.

Creating Happiness & Wellbeing During Summer Session I Dr. Laura Spivey and Dr. Cara Sidman rolled out a new course called Creating

Happiness & Wellbeing!

Geriatric team's leader strives to ease caregivers' burden In 2003, Dianne Phillips at age 59, having just received her post-graduate certificate as a certified gerontologist from UNC Wilmington, Phillips began a career with a geriatric team offering training, guidance and encouragement to those who care for the elderly and adults with geriatric symptoms diagnosed with a mental illness and/or dementia. "These caregivers are often the voice of those who can no longer speak for themselves" says Phillips. "Our trainings focus on creative intervention strategies that enhance their skills by providing them the tools to better recognize and avoid triggers to challenging behaviors.”

UNCW Exercise Science program has collaborated with ELITE Cycling (http://www.elite-it.com/) and conducted an applied research study investigating which cycling training device, rollers or trainers, improved a 10-km time trial. UNCW EXS was allowed to keep the trainers/rollers after the study. ELITE Cycling is a company based in Italy. ELITE Cycling supplied the necessary equipment, 5 POWER FLUID and 5 ARION MAG trainers, to complete the 8-week training study. Dr. Wayland Tseh recruited an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate research assistants in an effort to successfully complete this time-intensive research study.

Tyler Willett a SHAHS recent graduate hit the black asphalt of the back-roads that crisscross the United States and sat more than a month's worth of long days on a bicycle saddle. Willett, a 2009 graduate of West Iredell High School and 2013 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has medical school in his sights. The 23-year-old participated in an event called 4K for Cancer. And while the “K” in endurance activities commonly stands for “kilometers,” in this case it harkens back to the prefix “kilo,” that flows from the Greek word for “thousand.” In other words, Willett and another 120 or so other young people rode their leg-powered bicycles 4,000 miles. The ride took place over the course of 70 days.

Jordan Weber was interviewed for Star

News!

Jordan (far left in red shirt), adjunct

professor teaches yoga to a class of

Physical education students on the lawn

beside Trask Coliseum. The students will

take the skills they learn and integrate

them into the lesson plans for kindergarten

through fifth grade students.

Dr. Denise Battles (from left), Provost and Vice Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Dr. Michael Mills, Dr. Lynn Hunt-Long and Dr. Jorge Figueroa attended the YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Gala as they celebrated 100 years of providing programing education and training to women and their families as well as quality youth programming that promotes health development.

Members of the UNCW Gerontology Honor Society Sigma Phi Omega walked in support of Alzheimer’s North Carolina. A combined team of 27 Gerontology graduate and undergraduate students came together at Hugh MacRae Park to make a difference and contribute $510 to help those dealing with Alzheimer’s in our community. Pictured: Lisa Kurtz, Deidre Armstrong, Brittany Toomey & Sarah Hinton

B.O.S.S magazine covered the CHHS Youth

Health Summit. Under the leadership of Dr.

Lynn Hunt-Long 80 (STAE) Striving to

Achieve Excellence students from Charles P.

Murray Middle School and Roland Grise

Middle School attended the event.

UNCW and ECU

The School of Health and Applied Human Sciences would like to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between UNCW and East Carolina University’s Department of Public Health. The MOU formalizes our Public Health Studies degree program’s relationship with ECU’s MPH program and provides our qualified public health students expedited review of their admissions into ECU’s MPH Program. This collaborative relationship will help develop a stronger public health workforce in eastern North Carolina while also facilitating collaborative research and public health interventions among our respective universities.

UNCW and ACCESS

The School of Health and Applied Human Sciences

would like to announce the signing of a memorandum

of understanding (MOU) between UNCW and

Accessible Coastal Carolina Events Sports & Services

(ACCESS).

ACCESS is a non-profit organization that provides

organized sports and recreational activities for all

persons with disabilities in the Wilmington area.

CHHS is #1 in the 2014 Senior Challenge! The results of the Senior Challenge are in! This year’s Senior Challenge encouraged some friendly competition between the Colleges to identify the top two academic areas with the highest percentage of participation among graduating seniors. Thanks to a $5,000 challenge gift from a recent graduate and her family, those two areas will receive additional funding. Congratulations to the College of Health and Human Services and the College of Arts & Sciences for taking the top two spots. The College of Health and Human Services has a senior participation rate of 21.63%, with the School of Social Work leading the way with a 32.43% senior participation rate. The School of Social Work will be awarded $3,000 of the challenge gift. The College of Arts & Sciences had the second highest senior participation rate of 18.57% and will receive $2,000 of the challenge gift. The School of Health and Applied Human Services is proud to have come in 3rd with 17.4%. Way to go SHAHS Seniors!

Recent Alumni Mixers We are building our Seahawk Nation of SHAHS alumni person by person.

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August 1, 2013

Wrightsville beach marina & yacht club

November 21, 2013

Busy Bee Cafe’ Raleigh, NC

February 22, 2014

CHHS Alumni Breakfast

August 7, 2014 Shell Island Resort, Wrightsville Beach

Youth Summit: Healthful Living

“Dr. Sidman, I am going to miss your class! We need more teachers and professors like you in this world. Your enthusiasm and passion definitely came across to me and gave me the inspiration to better my overall wellness. I am more mindful about EVERYTHING now and am taking small steps to reach multiple goals to become more balanced in my diet and general daily life. I am so excited to see the outcomes! In the spirit of the season, I am thankful for you and the class and my awesome experience! I hope you have a peaceful and very happy holidays!”

CHHS 1st Annual Chili Cook-Off Winner Top Chef Dr. Candi Ashton

Congrats to ALL December 2013 and

May 2014 Graduates!

Every so often you get communication from a student that succinctly and clearly affirms our work. Congratulations to these faculty members who received written Kudos for

their work!

My favorite professor from my time in SHAHS would definitely be Mr. Jeff Nix. I did have Mr. Nix for three recreational classes, but the role in which he made the most impact in my life was as my advisor. He inspired and encouraged me to take an internship that would challenge me not only as a professional, but as a person. At the advice of Mr. Nix, I took an internship in Bloomington, Indiana with an award-winning and upper-echelon recreation department. This came with a move halfway across the country into an area in which I knew no one. The following 4 months provided me with some of the absolute best experiences of my life, and I have Mr. Nix's knowledge and encouragement to thank for that. He has not only been a great professor and mentor to me, but a great friend as well.

I cannot pick between two people as my favorite professors at UNCW. Mr. Honeycutt was the first person I met at UNCW and helped me as a confused freshman! I was able to take his class and learn that "my health is my wealth" and I continue to share that with many people! Dr. Bennett taught me the art of dancing! I love to dance and to see someone else with enthusiasm when music came on, was incredible! Of all my teachers at UNCW, I will NEVER forget them!

Full Time

DEPARTMENT FACULTY

Dr. Chris Lantz

Dr. Steve Elliott

Dr. Kirk Brown

Ms. Andi Bender

Dr. Randy Cottrell

Dr. Jorge Figueroa

Ms. Trish Buerger

Dr. Brandi Crowe

Dr. Kerry Whipple

Dr. Deb Dowd

Mr. Christian Barnes

Dr. Robert Boyce

Ms. Tamlyn Shields

Dr. Lisa Sprod

Dr. Wayland Tseh

Dr. Cara Sidman

Dr. Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock

Dr. C. Sue Combs

Dr. Lynn Hunt Long

Dr. Nancy Hritz

Dr. Alexia Franzidis

Dr. Jim Herstine

Mr. Jeff Nix

Dr. Laura Spivey

Dr. Candy Ashton-Forrester

Dr. Dan Johnson

Dr. Terry Kinney

Ms. Marsha Todd

Dr. Judy Kinney

Ms. Marsha Todd

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Our Vision The School of Health and Applied Human Sciences (SHAHS) will be recognized as the

Atlantic Coastal Region's preeminent school of health and human sciences.

Our Mission The mission of the School of Health and Applied Human Sciences is to promote the

health and wellbeing of all persons through exemplary preparation of Health and

Human Sciences professionals, community engagement, and research. We will realize

this mission through relentless pursuit of strategic plan that affirms our strengths,

targets growth opportunities, and pushes us to excellence. At the foundation of this

plan are a set of core values.

Our Values Teaching. Learning. Excellence

Superlative preparation of future leaders in the health and applied human sciences professions

Stimulating learning environments characterized by pedagogical innovation, integration of cooperative and experiential learning, and promotion of scholarly inquiry and advancement

Inter-professional/interdisciplinary collaboration and collegiality

Powerful community partnerships and civic engagement activities that enhance the health and quality of life of those who reside in Cape Fear Region and beyond