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UNC Charlotte athletic trainer Adam Jordan uses close relationships and clinical skill to keep players healthy. Campus is quiet and the sun is just beginning to glimmer across the windows of Halton Arena as Adam Jordan flicks on the lights of his basement office. The head athletic trainer for the Charlotte 49ers men’s basketball team […]

A photo of a rusted shovel with a broken handle, aged by years of harsh Appalachian weather and hard work, sat on display in UNC Charlotte’s Atkins Library through much of the month of November. The piece is a creation of senior and gerontology minor Seth Flynn, who submitted it as part of a contest […]

For most students at UNC Charlotte, Belk Gymnasium is a place for extracurricular activities. Renovated in 2015, the 100,000 square-foot facility is known for its basketball courts, swimming pool and multi-purpose fitness rooms. However, for many future exercise physiologists, this facility is an important academic building, home to the Clinical Exercise Physiology Laboratory. The lab […]

Tables lined the salon in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center on a November day as UNC Charlotte’s nationally ranked School of Social Work hosted its Field Education Fair. Students like Tachina Hardy buzzed in and out of the tables, speaking with agents and learning about upcoming internships. Hardy is well aware of the networking opportunities […]

Charlotte youths are smoking fewer cigarettes than ever before, but using electronic cigarettes more, according to a new UNC Charlotte report. While the Youth Drug Survey of middle and high school students from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools found just 3.3 percent of respondents had smoked cigarettes over a 30-day period, nearly 13 percent had consumed e-cigarettes. Researchers […]

Stocking your fridge and putting food on the table may not be a challenge for many of you. But, thousands of families in Charlotte don’t have healthy options because there’s nowhere in their neighborhood to buy fruits or vegetables. According to a map of grocery stores across Charlotte, there is an area in west Charlotte […]

Seth Edwards (MHA ’09) is principal of population health management at Premier, Inc. He has served on the UNC Charlotte Health Administration Advisory Board since January 2016, and is the son of retired UNC Charlotte School of Nursing faculty member Lienne Edwards. The following excerpt appeared in an article announcing Edwards was named a “Up […]

With the launch of the Bachelor of Science in Health Systems Management (HSMT) degree in 2017, the Department of Public Health Sciences marked the first new major at UNC Charlotte in 10 years. Now, just one year after its debut, the program is already one of the most popular on campus, with more than 500 […]

10 Under Ten Award Recipients from The College of Health and Human Services Ciara Castagno ‘10 Ciara Castagno ‘10 used her degree in exercise science from UNC Charlotte to start a personal training business, STAG Human Performance, with her husband, Ret. Army Capt. Christopher Castagno. She has published more than 20 professionally accredited research articles […]

Pilot Mountain, NC, a small town sitting at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is located about 4,200 miles from Landstuhl, Germany. Despite the distance between the city that is home to the America’s largest international military hospital and the rural community he calls home, Luke Merritt knew he wanted to be stationed in […]