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As Department of Allied Health Sciences Allied Health Ambassadors, students from our division are bringing awareness to the academic challenges, financial strains, and interpersonal conflicts that are often faced by minority students pursuing professional careers. At a DAHS annual event, titled Difference Matters, first-year student Shamni Uthayasoorian spoke on diversity...

Judy Schmidt, EdD, CRC, LPCA, and graduate student Nicola Zollinger are pairing up to promote stronger interprofessional relationships. Collaboration has come from a variety of disciplines, including audiology, education, nursing, occupational therapy, public health, physical therapy, social work, psychology. Already this year, the team has promoted and hosted its inaugural...

PhD student Jenni Shafer hopes her newly discovered research passions will lower barriers in an often-overlooked and under-researched issue facing adults. In June of 2013, Jenni Shafer was kicked in the head by a horse. The four years since that accident have been arduous, yet rewarding: they have brought her...

Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling masters students celebrated graduation on Saturday, May 13, 2017. The Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling celebrated its Master of Science graduates on Saturday, May 13, 2017, in the Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB). The program’s 18 graduates specialized in either psychiatric...

More than a dozen students in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Allied Health Sciences received recognition for their studies across four health care disciplines. On Thursday, April 20, 2017, The UNC Graduate School recognized dozens of students for their accomplishments during the school year, including Jesse Sykes, a second-year...

Two students from the Department of Allied Health Sciences traveled to Robeson County, North Carolina, for an Interprofessional Education (IPE) trip. Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling students Deepti Kumra and Manqing He joined 17 other UNC-Chapel Hill students on a service-learning trip to Robeson County to help with Hurricane...

Two Department of Allied Health Sciences students, Emily Robinson and Rachel Hopkins, have been recognized for their service to the Chapel Hill community. Two students in the Division of Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling in the Department of Allied Health Sciences recently received awards for their service to the...