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OT grad draws on personal experience to fuel research
4/25/25
Vanessa Yanez, a prior PhD candidate who successfully defended her dissertation in the School of Occupational Therapy on the Houston campus, is a recipient of the Bonita Kraft Occupational Therapy Doctoral Student Scholarship, which supports research in mental health and severe mental illness.
Kinesiology team earns second place in NASA-sponsored design challenge
4/22/25
A team of Texas Woman’s kinesiology students researched, designed, fabricated and tested an wearable exercise device that could potentially transform astronauts’ workouts in space flight and took second place overall at a NASA-sponsored statewide design competition.
TWU kinesiology prof helps golfers master their swing
4/4/25
Over the last 16 years, Young-Hoo Kwon, a professor of kinesiology and director of the Biomechanics and Motor Behavior Lab in the School of Health Promotion & Kinesiology at Texas Woman’s, has become one of the world’s leading researchers in golf biomechanics. Through years of capturing data of golf swings with innovative 3D technology and then analyzing it with software that he created when he was a PhD student, Kwon has produced research that filled a gap in the science of golf.
Pre-health career fair to feature more exhibitors
4/2/25
After exceeding expectations in its first year, Texas Woman's pre-health career fair returns to Hubbard Hall on Apr. 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., bringing representatives from a wide range of healthcare post-graduate programs and schools to campus.
Study abroad experience helps student master skills
3/14/25
Texas Woman's graduate student Martha Cruz was one of 15 SLP students that took part in a study abroad trip to Dominica. With a combination of first- and second-year graduate speech-language pathology students as well as master’s students from the distance-education program, the all-female group formed new friendships and strengthened existing ones.