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This blog features news, events, student work and activities, faculty research, and more from NYIT’s School of Health Professions. Contact mhaar@nyit.edu for more information.
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Grocery Games
Event | Mar 29, 2023
Grocery Games is a fun food and nutrition trivia game involving dashing through the first floor of the Wisser building and choosing healthful food models for your mini-shopping. This event is sponsored by the School of Health Professions Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and the Grizzly Cupboard Food and Resource Pantry.
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Annual Big Give Breaks Record
Feature | Mar 14, 2023
This year marks the Big Give’s fifth anniversary. And the New York Tech community celebrated in a big way, bringing in $415,915 from 939 donors.
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D.P.T. Class of 2025 Receives Their White Coats
Feature | Feb 14, 2023
The School of Health Profession’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2025 gathered in Riland Auditorium to receive their white coats, marking the start of their journey as physical therapists.
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Improving Health, One Posture Check at a Time
Feature | Jan 25, 2023
The School of Health Professions’ Department of Physical Therapy has long been a source of information about how to improve body movement to recover from, and ideally avoid, injury. With its service initiative, Posture Patrol, physical therapy students are working to improve the posture, and health, of the New York Tech community, one member at a time.
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Healthy and Fit for the New Year
Feature | Jan 03, 2023
New York Tech faculty members Mindy Haar, Ph.D., RDN, and Alex Rothstein discuss current nutrition and exercise trends and the direction these keys to health may be headed toward in 2023.
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Alumni Profile: John Karaptis
Profile | Dec 01, 2022
Inspired by his grandfather, John Karaptis (B.S. ’03) pursued a career in medicine. Since graduating with a degree in physician assistant studies, he is now the director of surgical services and digestive disease at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.
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News Byte: Future Nurses Receive White Coats
Feature | Nov 02, 2022
Students in the nursing program’s Class of 2024 received their white coats during a ceremony on October 19.
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A Spooktacular Pumpkin Carving Contest
Feature | Oct 25, 2022
On October 18, the Long Island campus was a ghoulish sight. Students, faculty, and staff in NYITCOM and the School of Health Professions participated in their seventh annual pumpkin carving contest.
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