Blogs

UD senior and group fitness instructor Michalene McQuide recently showcased her public speaking skills and Flyer pride at the Ohio Recreational Sports Association State Workshop. She shared how UD Campus Recreation builds community, inspiring peers and recreation professionals from across Ohio to strengthen their own programs.

At its most basic, a collective is a group of individuals who work together toward a common goal. The term usuallyexplains a group that doesn’t have a strict hierarchy (more on that later), but that makes decisions, you guessed it,collectively. So, when the Brain Health Collective (BHC) gets together, that’s exactly what they do. They bring in experts (those with lived experience, professionals, families, and friends of individuals who have experienced brain injuries) who all bring their wisdom, experience, and networks to better serve our community.

The faculty, staff and students in the Department of Counselor Education have been busy! Read on to learn about their latest accolades.

Students are getting a firsthand view of the future of health professions training thanks to the new Dave and Norma McCarthy Virtual Reality Lab in memory of Dr. Anne Crecelius.

Healing Hearts provides meaningful service opportunities for students in pre-health tracks. 

If I were to choose one word to describe the now-under-construction Health and Wellbeing Center, it would be holistic. At UD, we educate the whole person — mind, body, heart and spirit.

Austin Schlater was training for the military when a nasty back injury introduced him to physical therapy. Now he’s learning how to help others recover from their injuries as a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Physical Therapy at UD.

Ohio's Great Minds Fellowship Program is simultaneously helping clinical mental health counseling students defray the costs of grad school while addressing mental health workforce shortages.

Assistant clinical professor Rebecca Gonter-Dray was recognized as the 2025 Outstanding Dietetics Educator for the Ohio chapter of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and also for the north central region of the national organization.

Garro is excelling in the classroom and in the field, and she's looking forward to helping people bounce back after an injury.