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Faculty and students from the College of Health and Human Services can provide health education and/or consultation in the following areas:


  • Adolescent health and development
  • CPR training
  • Drug use and abuse education
  • Ethics
  • First aid training
  • Mental health education
  • Minority health
  • Prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse
  • Prevention of violence
  • Rural Health
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • Youth health education
  • Young adults health education
For more information on any of these services contact: lisa.durham@wku.edu



             

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WKU Student receives national nonprofit award
12/04/2008
Bowling Green, Ky – Charlie Harris, a student in WKU’s Nonprofit Administration (American Humanics) minor program, has been selected to receive a national “Next Generation” nonprofit internship award of $4,500. A panel of national nonprofit leaders selected Harris from among students at American Humanics affiliated colleges and universities nationwide.
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Industry as Text: Public Health graduate students visit Trace Die Cast
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On October 20, 2008, 13 graduate students enrolled in Fall 2008 Air Quality Management class undertook a field trip to “Trace Die Cast” in Bowling Green. Dr. Emmanuel Iyiegbuniwe, the course instructor, has incorporated field trips in the form of City as Text” or “Industry as Text” as pedagogical techniques for teaching air quality management and other environmental health sciences to both undergraduate and graduate students. Simply stated, City as Text or Industry as Text is based on the concept of “active learning” or “experiential learning” (Kolb 1984).

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