By Jon Stemmle A few months ago my father learned that he needed to have heart survey to repair a leaky heart valve. Along with the worry that goes with any surgery, let alone on your heart, my dad also was told he needed to change his diet. Now this… Continue reading
By Jon Stemmle A short time ago, I was honored to be invited to attend the MU Honors Convocation as a mentor. As I looked around the room at the 1,324 honors graduates and respective mentors filling Mizzou Arena, I thought about the amazing futures the people in that room… Continue reading
By Jon Stemmle It’s been a few weeks since the American Telemedicine Association national conference ended, and I’m still sorting out all that I learned. Although we’ve been involved with telehealth through the Heartland Telehealth Resource Center since late 2010, attending the national conference was like a master class in telemedicine practice. The one… Continue reading
It’s been a month since the Photovoice Missouri awards and many of the results of this year-long project are now available online. While we’ve mentioned the Flickr site in a previous post, you can also now find all of the photos from the finalists in a PowerPoint presentation on Slideshare. We’ve also created a… Continue reading
By Alex Denning To explain my experience as a graduate research assistant at the Health Communication Research Center (HCRC) it takes some background and a few stories. So here it goes. I came in to the HCRC as a public health student with no background in journalism or even health… Continue reading
Why are some zip codes healthier than others? Why do some groups in Missouri bear a greater burden of asthma, high blood pressure and diabetes? These and other questions are the focus of “Healthy Lives, Healthy Communities: Building Health Equity in Missouri One Community at a Time,” on April 27,… Continue reading
By Shraddha Sankhe Related Blog Post: Remembering Joye Patterson. Note: This interview took place on Feb. 23 between Joye Patterson and Smith/Patterson Fellow Shraddha Sankhe. As the Smith/Patterson Fellow for 2011-12, I had an opportunity to interview former MU Professor Joye Patterson. Joye taught science writing at the School of Journalism from 1966 to… Continue reading
By Jon Stemmle Earlier today, an email went out to the J-School community announcing the passing of Joye Patterson. I first met Joye in 2008. It was that year that one of Joye’s former students, Russell G. Smith II, established the Smith/Patterson Science Journalism Fellowship and Lecture Series in her honor. As… Continue reading
By Jennifer Coffman Related post: Photovoice Missouri honors best of student work Today, more than ever, teens are overflowing with creativity. What they lack, oftentimes, is an audience. Sometimes they find it through Facebook or the occasional viral Youtube video, but rarely do those audiences contain the types of people who can… Continue reading
HCRC founder Glen T. Cameron will present the keynote speech at the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication on April 20, the opening day of the conference. The theme for this year’s conference is Health Literacy Research and Practice, which fits in with the HCRC’s work on health literacy that stretches back more than five… Continue reading
