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Jill Pease

Reunion and Outstanding Alumni Awards

2010 PHHP Alumni Reunion and Outstanding Alumni Awards More than 370 alumni and families attended this year’s PHHP Alumni Reunion, our biggest group ever! Guests enjoyed barbecue and conversation with former classmates and professors. During the Outstanding Alumni Awards ceremony, the college honored eight alumni. Outstanding alumni less…

Dean’s message

Dean’s message Dr. Michael G. Perri, dean A cholera outbreak in Haiti caused by a strain that resembles a South Asian strain of the disease and last year’s international swine flu pandemic, thought to have originated in a Mexico swine herd, are…

Student news

Student news Meryl Alappattu and Virginia Little, doctoral students in the college’s rehabilitation science program, received Promotion of Doctoral Studies Scholarships from the Foundation for Physical Therapy Board of Trustees. The program funds the most highly-qualified doctoral and post-doctoral students preparing for research careers. Alappattu’s scholarship…

In the air we breathe

College researchers are studying the properties and transmission of respiratory pathogens like flu viruses and nanoparticles.

The dreamer and doer

Onyekachukwu “Onyeka” Osakwe hopes to use public health and orthopedics to help the developing world.

Helping hands

At UF’s Physical Therapy Equal Access Clinic, students provide free services to patients unable to afford treatment elsewhere.