PNW Pridecast: Center for Healthy Living opens its doors

November 16, 2022

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Greetings, Purdue Northwest colleagues!

We’re again with one other episode of the PNW Pridecast, your inner school and workers information podcast. I’m your host, Kale Wilk, Communications Specialist in Advertising and Communications. I’m trying ahead to bringing you extra information and updates as we dive into subjects highlighting the opening of the Heart for Wholesome Dwelling, how school and workers can proactively be concerned with the Profession Heart, and methods to study extra about your Lionhearted Leaders.

Heart for Wholesome Dwelling opens its doorways

The Center for Healthy Living is right here and has began a phased opening for the PNW neighborhood.

Advantages-eligible school and workers can reap the benefits of a variety of well being care companies all at a handy on-campus location. The middle’s workers features a doctor assistant, medical assistant, observe coordinator, and well being coach who’re prepared to offer help with therapy for widespread sicknesses, preventive care, and to advertise general well being.

The middle is positioned simply south of 173rd Avenue on the Hammond campus and west of the Health & Recreation Heart. To study extra details about well being companies and hours of operation, please go to pnw.edu/center-for-healthy-living.

Right here’s Colleen Robison, affiliate director of advantages, with slightly extra:

“The explanation why we’re doing that is to enhance the well being of our inhabitants,” mentioned Robison. “We would like our staff to be wholesome, and a method to try this is to assist them get the sources and the companies they should assist them discover out about sicknesses they could have sooner, and preventive care choices to reap the benefits of in a handy method.

Frequent sicknesses like sinus infections, ear, nostril and throat infections, minor pores and skin situations, and allergic reactions may be taken care of on the heart. Main care choices, comparable to screenings, allergy photographs, and immunizations are additionally obtainable.

Workers taking part within the Wholesome Boiler Incentive program can full physicals on the heart too, which may be seamlessly utilized to at least one’s well being portal.

When you’re trying to make a change or adjustment together with your well being care or way of life, well being teaching may also be an possibility staff can reap the benefits of, comparable to dietitian companies, remedy remedy administration, threat issue counseling, and tobacco cessation. Academic workshops may also be provided sooner or later.

The middle additionally affords complete lab companies for non-emergency medical checks as a Tier 1 Lab, which might present less expensive lab work for workers on college medical plans.

At the moment, benefits-eligible school and workers, together with spouses and dependents on a Purdue well being plan, in addition to Retirees and long-term incapacity former staff on a Purdue Anthem plan, are eligible to make use of the middle.

Companies will develop to non-benefits eligible school and workers and college students in early 2023.

Once more, go to pnw.edu/center-for-healthy-living to browse companies and fee logistics primarily based in your well being care plan.

Profession Heart welcomes school and workers collaborations

The PNW Career Center workers is raring to collaborate with school and workers to attach college students with profession recommendation and employers.

The Profession Heart organizes a number of massive profession festivals and expos through the tutorial 12 months, a few of the widespread ones together with Pleasure Skilled Growth Night time, the STEM Trade Honest, and fall and spring Profession Expos. The middle’s workers may also collaborate with the educational schools to tailor particular occasions for these schools, such because the latest Senior Engineering Design Panel and School of Nursing Meet-and-Greet.

In addition to massive profession and recruiting occasions that welcome in employers to community with college students, alumni, school, and workers, the Profession Heart workers can be keen to schedule appointments with lessons to ship shows and session for college kids in getting ready for his or her subsequent steps of their skilled journey to create worthwhile, productive connections with employers earlier than and after commencement. The workers has facilitated greater than 30 classes with lessons this fall semester.

Joelynn Stephen, interim director of the Profession Heart, says school members typically show to be pivotal skilled figures for college kids who can function pleasant conduits for profitable networking and constructing confidence. 

Right here’s Joelynn with extra:

“We hear from employers loads that in addition they just like the reference to school as a result of that offers them a extra direct line to particular lessons and particular majors.

 “We (profession heart workers) can push and encourage college students, however one thing about their direct school member saying ‘it’s best to actually go speak to so-and-so’ or whichever firm it’s, it tends to work properly in that means once they (college students) are having the encouragement from either side: school and our workers.”

To study extra data, go to pnw.edu/career-center, the place you’ll be able to join with Profession Heart workers, register on digital platform Handshake, and extra.

Lionhearted Leaders on the prowl

They train, they mentor, they impression! For the second 12 months in a row 19 PNW school members are being honored all through the educational 12 months as Lionhearted Leaders.

The Lionhearted Leaders initiative is produced by the Workplace of Educational Affairs to acknowledge excellent school who’ve gone above and past of their tutorial coursework, scholarly analysis, and neighborhood involvement. Every division at PNW has chosen one one who has confirmed distinctive of their efforts as a way to acknowledge their onerous work and contributions to our college.

By visiting pnw.edu/lionhearted-leaders you’ll be able to see all of the honored school members for the 2022-23 12 months and skim their tales, together with their analysis pursuits, what motivates or conjures up them of their work, and some enjoyable information.

As much as three school every month can be launched and shared on-line on the Lionhearted Leaders touchdown web page and on social media by means of April. Please additionally look ahead to ads within the Pioneer pupil newspaper recognizing the school all year long. 

A number of school additionally volunteered to document minute-long movies explaining their analysis. Right here’s Ezra Mutai, assistant professor of Meals and Vitamin, one of many school members acknowledged in October:

“Do you know that seven out of each 10 Individuals are obese or overweight? This sounds grim, however we are able to all have an effect on our chance of dying of continual ailments by consuming more healthy.

My title is Ezra Mutai. Rising up in Kenya, I noticed my household embody natural medication of their each day lives. As a Ph.D. pupil on the College of Nebraska, I turned fascinated with the position energetic meals compounds play in prevention and therapy of continual ailments comparable to weight problems and coronary heart ailments.

This fall, I’m main a analysis research at Purdue Northwest on the big well being advantages of hibiscus tea in decreasing coronary heart illness and hypertension. As a diet professor, I provide weekly neighborhood seminars in LaPorte and Lake counties on the American Coronary heart Affiliation’s Important 8 Suggestions for Wholesome Life.

It’s not straightforward to understand your kin are proper, however my analysis is exhibiting the biochemistry and knowledge behind my household’s sensible practices.”

As soon as once more, to study extra please go to pnw.edu/lionhearted-leaders.

Latest information

We’ve got just a few information highlights we’d moreover wish to share.

CIVS researching blast furnace power consumption discount

Tyamo Okosun, analysis affiliate professor with the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), is main a group researching and designing a multi-component software for blast furnace operation within the steelmaking business through the use of the Rosen Heart for Superior Computing Bell computing cluster at Purdue West Lafayette to refine its fashions.

Okosun says that whereas high-performance computing can considerably speed up the computational fluid dynamics fashions used to foretell blast forces, high-performance computing isn’t quick sufficient to permit for real-time file-tuning by the operators on the plant. To resolve that drawback, the venture group is creating a machine-learning mannequin on physics-based simulation information by working a big database of various working situations on the Bell cluster.

The venture is funded by a $7 million award from the U.S. Dept. of Power and goals to cut back power consumption in blast furnaces and downstream processes by as much as 10 p.c.

Philosophy professor’s e book acknowledged

David Detmer, professor of Philosophy, not too long ago obtained a nod from famend tutorial, linguist, and social critic Noam Chomsky. Former New York Occasions international correspondent Chris Hedges, who hosts “The Chris Hedges Report,” a section on “The Actual Information Community,” not too long ago interviewed Chomsky on a number of subjects.

Chomsky complimented Detmer’s 2018 book (go to minute 14:23 within the video) Zinnophobia: The Battle over Historical past, Schooling, Politics, and Scholarship. Detmer’s e book affords a background on historian and social critic Howard Zinn and an evaluation of his critics.

Advertising and Communications earns awards

PNW’s Workplace of Advertising and Communications not too long ago earned two awards for promoting marketing campaign inventive art work and web site touchdown pages for its Energy Onward promoting marketing campaign. Particular congratulations go to Katie Stompor, director of Digital and Inventive Media and James Seidler, director of Net Companies, because the workplace took residence a Silver Award by the Davey Awards within the Built-in Advertising Marketing campaign class, and the Gold Academic Digital Advertising Award by the Academic Digital Advertising Awards within the digital promoting marketing campaign class.

Because the launch over two years in the past of the Energy Onward model platform, Advertising and Communications has earned a dozen awards for its work.

Additionally from Advertising and Communications, James Seidler took residence a “finest in observe” “Crimson Stapler” award in October for his presentation on the 2022 HighEdWeb convention in Little Rock, Arkansas. Seidler’s speak, “By the Numbers: Constructing a Versatile Reporting Framework with Google Information Studio!”, mentioned methods to use the free Google Information Studio visualization software to create versatile, real-time web site studies for shoppers throughout the college, from Sinai Discussion board to senior management.

Seidler mentioned he’s honored to be acknowledged by HighEdWeb’s neighborhood of net professionals and is grateful to all of the collaborators at PNW who assist make the web site grea

 

That’s all we’ve obtained this time! Don’t neglect, you’ll be able to atone for previous episodes by visiting pnw.edu/pridecast. We’re additionally keen to listen to about your personal inner information, which you’ll be able to share by means of our Qualtrics type obtainable on the Pridecast web site or by emailing us at pnwpridecast@pnw.edu.

That is Kale Wilk signing off, and I’ll join with you once more subsequent month.