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INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine has recognized ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ with a 2014 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, an accolade that reflects ongoing university efforts to celebrate and support students, staff, faculty and alumni of all backgrounds and beliefs.

A federal program of the Health Resources and Services Administration will provide full tuition and a stipend to four ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ graduate students planning to work in medically underserved regions across the United States.

In Saturday remarks to graduates from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Master of Education program, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ President Emeritus J. Fred Young, who founded with his family a company that brings international teachers to the United States, proposed changes to the way Americans view learning and student outcomes.

Students in the 10-month, full-time master's program have varied backgrounds from across the United States.

Graduate students in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Doctor of Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant Studies programs worked July 11 with a nationally recognized artist to paint muscles, tissue and bone onto classmates in a hands-on approach to anatomy.

The assistant professor of physical therapy presented at the World Congress of Biomechanics Conference in July 2014.

The Department of Physical Therapy Education and Department of Computing Sciences were represented at the 2014 Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society Conference in Newark, Delaware, from June 24-27, 2014.

Kristen Riffanacht received the American College of Sports Medicine Biomechanics Interest Group Student Research Award.

The Department of Physical Therapy Education was represented at the 2014 American College of Sports Medicine held in Orlando, Fla. May 27-31.

Master of Education student Lisa Wilson’s proposal has been accepted by the Governor’s Teacher Network as part of the federal Race to the Top funding.