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As a former president of the American School Health Association, Solari Williams was interviewed by National Public Radio and other national media outlets regarding the test. Her three one-year terms as president before her 2024 move to Purdue as well as her decades of research on fitness in schools has made her an expert on the test and its potential effects on today’s K-12 students.

Written by: Tim Brouk, tbrouk@purdue.edu The summer announcement of the return of the Presidential Fitness Test was met with mostly positive reactions from the health sector because getting children moving in school has many benefits. However, the test, which was...

Subin Han, a PhD candidate in the Purdue University School of Health Sciences, developed a novel, patent-pending air sampler that utilizes an inertial impactor to collect harmful viruses and bacteria from the air. This device was designed and fabricated under the guidance of Health Sciences associate professor Jae Hong Park.

Written by: Tim Brouk, tbrouk@purdue.edu Subin Han was one of the millions worldwide who contracted COVID-19. As she recovered in quarantine at her parents’ home in Seoul, South Korea, the young scholar wondered how people could better detect the threat...

Autumn Reynolds, a Purdue University Department of Public Health Master of Public Health student in the 4+1 program has always found ways to merge her interest in health with her passion for working with children. When she encountered the opportunity to join the Military Family Research Institute (MFRI) as an interviewer for Operation Military Experience — a national study that aims to capture the experiences of families who have undergone parental deployment — she found a way to connect these interests with her own personal experience growing up in a military family.

Written By: Rebecca Hoffa, rhoffa@purdue.edu Autumn Reynolds, a Purdue University Department of Public Health Master of Public Health student in the 4+1 program has always found ways to merge her interest in health with her passion for working with children....

As AI agents are becoming more pervasive for both work and personal use, people are increasingly turning to these agents for socioemotional help and support. Purdue Psychological Sciences William C. Byham Professor Louis Tay’s latest work will be a three-year study exploring the impact of AI conversational agents on human well-being, as funded by a $3.5 million John Templeton Foundation grant.

Written by: Tim Brouk, tbrouk@purdue.edu It only took a little more than a decade to make the 2013 science fiction romance film “Her” into a reality. Cinefiles may recall the Joaquin Phoenix vehicle of a lonely man falling in love...

When Angel Prince graduated from Purdue University’s Department of Human Development and Family Science in 2024 as an Outstanding Senior, he had an Orr Fellowship lined up in Indianapolis with a full-time job accompanying it. Now on his final year in the program, Prince is gaining all of the program’s benefits while working as a talent acquisition coordinator at National Construction Workforce (NCW).

Written By: Rebecca Hoffa, rhoffa@purdue.edu When Angel Prince graduated from Purdue University’s Department of Human Development and Family Science in 2024 as an Outstanding Senior, he had an Orr Fellowship lined up in Indianapolis with a full-time job accompanying it....

Evans Appiah Osei overcame major obstacles before thriving in the Purdue University School of Nursing. Studying by lantern light as a child, Osei is now a PhD student that led a session on “Palliative and End of Life Care for Gynecologic Malignancies” at the 2025 Ghanaian Diaspora Nursing Alliance and World Continuing Education Alliance conferences this summer. He spoke in front of about 500 nurse practitioners from all over Africa about his Purdue research experience working with cervical cancer patients toward the end of their lives.

Written by: Tim Brouk, tbrouk@purdue.edu Evans Appiah Osei’s early life was spent on the family farm in Agona-Bipoa, Ghana. There, he watched his grandmothers and aunties harvest plantains, cassava and other crops. He was often in wonder at how much...