Comprehensive Health & Well-Being

The College of Education and Human Sciences envisions that every person has access to research based, culturally relevant, leading edge health and wellness resources, expertise and services that are well integrated into the community, highly acceptable and used.

Monique Fenner headshot; Barkley Memorial Center photo with red overlay behind

07 Mar 2023    By Kelcey Buck

SECD master’s student receives grant for ability awareness curriculum

Monique Fenner, a student in the orientation and mobility master’s program, was recently awarded a grant to help students without visual impairments better understand and accept their peers with visual impairments.

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Professional headshot of Jasmin Smith on red background.

02 Mar 2023    By Duane Retzlaff | Buffett Early Childhood Institute

Buffett Institute funds grad student’s research into healthy eating habits

Nebraska’s Jasmin Smith, a doctoral student in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, is looking to study mealtime emotional climate in the child care setting.

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Alaya Greene smiles for a photo on East Campus

28 Feb 2023    By Katie Black | University Communication and Marketing

Greene leads inclusive spaces, discussions on campus

Meet Alaya Greene, a nutrition and health sciences major from Georgetown, South Carolina.

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Dena Abbot, wearing a green shirt and tan coat, stands against a wall of windows and brick.

07 Feb 2023    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Study explores paths to religious beliefs among underrepresented communities

A Nebraska research project is exploring pathways to atheism by examining commonly held notions of what causes unbelief among demographic groups that are underrepresented in atheism studies.

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Janos Zempleni smiles for a photo in a scientific lab space.

03 Feb 2023    By Geitner Simmons - IANR Media

USDA funding supports Zempleni research on breastmilk consumption and brain development

University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists will analyze gut microbiome function, looking to see how mice process milk nanoparticles whose biological signaling appears to have important benefits for cognitive development.

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Group of female students

17 Jan 2023    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Online sexual assault resistance program trains first-year female college students

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is among four U.S. and Canadian universities evaluating an online version of a sexual assault resistance program for college undergraduate women.

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sign and exterior of Leverton Hall

12 Jan 2023    By Kelcey Buck | Special Education & Communication Disorders

Study suggests taste cells’ role in immune response may lead to treatment of taste loss

A recent study from a team of researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and other institutions has found that a subset of taste cells called type II taste cells may play a key role in the body’s immune response to harmful oral microbes. These new findings could help treat taste loss caused by infection, aging, obesity and cancer chemotherapy.

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06 Dec 2022    By Chuck Green, CYFS

CYFS releases 2021-22 annual report

The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools has released its annual report for the 2021-22 fiscal year

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Audiologist Stacie Ray checks the ears and hearing aids of 13-year-old Chloie Lechance.

03 Nov 2022    By Kateri Hartman, University Communication and Marketing

Nebraska audiology programs amplify life for deaf and hard-of-hearing

When Jeremy Lachance heard that his 13-year-old daughter needed new hearing aids, he wasn’t sure how he’d pay for it. That’s where HearU Nebraska, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln led hearing aid bank for children, came in.  

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