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Learning in Year 1
The ultra importance of a child’s development in the first year of life cannot be overstated. From the physical to the cognitive, the social to the emotional, each developmental domain lays groundwork that can set a tone for a lifetime of better health.
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Even Adoptive Parents Get the Blues
Imagine being pregnant for four years. For some adoptive parents, especially in cases with international children, the bureaucratic hoops they negotiate can have them waiting for their child for years. That vast difference from a nine-month pregnancy could contribute to post-adoption depression in new parents.
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Children Continue to Win with 10th PALS Program
During the past 10 years, more than 2,000 children ages 8-14 have spent four weeks in the summer at a day camp on campus learning how to play sports, eat better, balance a checkbook and respect their peers and themselves.
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The Building Blocks of STEM
For senior Christina Citta, one of her biggest accomplishments to date is creating a lesson plan that kept 20 preschoolers attentive and still for an hour. “I thought, ‘If I can do that, I can do anything!’” she says.
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Exercise in Collaboration
One of the first examples of cross-college collaboration came in late in 2010 when Wayne Campbell, professor of nutrition science, started asking colleagues and students within his department if they’d be interested in running or walking the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon.
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In Human Service
Megan Ober (HDFS ’99) is a self-proclaimed poster child for Purdue’s College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS). Not only was she a part of the alumni board for the former College of Consumer and Family Sciences, but she was also an active participant in the transition team with the HHS alumni board. And in a professional career spanning only 12 years, she has transitioned from work in developmental and family studies (her chosen major) to the business world to what now seems like her true calling in nursing.
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3 Emerging Urban Leaders
Not everyone knows at age 18 what she wants to do for the rest of her life. As such, creators of the core curriculum (still in the works) in the College of Health and Human Sciences are hoping that first-year students will be allowed to do a bit of exploring in health-related fields.
