Health and Medicine
Why do we yawn?
Christian Agudelo, a neurologist at the University of Miami, provides some insights on why we do and whether it is contagious.
Positive parenting strategies for anxious children
A University of Miami child and adolescent specialist offered a range of strategies, tips, and tools in a recorded webinar to help parents better socialize their distressed child and to develop their self-efficacy.
Student innovators garner a boost of support
Five teams of students each won $100,000 in support funding for their innovations at the second annual USTAAR pitch competition recently.
Recognizing faculty excellence across campus
The annual Provost’s Awards Ceremony honored the work of University of Miami faculty and staff members using innovative techniques in class, as well as through their research and scholarship.
Health and well-being tips from the Middle Ages
A millennium before Tik-Tok and podcasts added an express lane to the self-help industry superhighway, “regimen sanitatis”—the genre of handwritten texts prescribing health and wellness tips—circulated during the late Middle Ages.
Unpacking the youth mental health crisis
Dr. Thomas Insel, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, came to campus to deliver the Provost’s Distinguished Lecture and spoke about how the nation can help lower mental health struggles in youth.
To nap or not to nap?
A University of Miami doctor and expert in sleep surgery explains why napping can interfere with your sleep cycle.
New laboratory hopes to curb heart disease
Several studies are being conducted at the School of Education and Human Development to learn about the vascular health of various groups of people.
Exposing the ‘DIRT’ on dust
In one of the few studies of its kind, a University of Miami doctoral student and others have documented the particle size of household dust found on children’s hands after play activities.
YogaCue: A new kind of yoga for seniors
A study spearheaded by professor Joseph Signorile of the School of Education and Human Development promises to help seniors to improve cognitive abilities.
Do you want to establish new habits?
An ICF Master Certified Coach from the Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching program details ways in which you can do so.
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