College of Health and Human Services

Fall is the time of year when family and friends gather and play touch football in the backyard. Some of the risks of the game–but likely not all of them–can be reduced by thoroughly warming up and stretching beforehand.

Here’s what to do if you or a family member suffers one of these common injuries during this year’s Turkey Bowl.

Ankle sprains

It started with a cardboard box.

The box, which followed the UNC Charlotte School of Nursing from its first home in the Belk Gym to its current home in the College of Health and Human Services, contained precious memorabilia that detailed the program’s 50-year history.

Ann Mabe Newman and Dona Haney co-authored “Miss Bonnie’s Nurses: The First Fifty Years of Nursing at UNC Charlotte,” and they will discuss the work at 10 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, in the Atkins Library, Halton Reading Room.

Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, is a small town at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains; from there, it is about 4,200 miles to Landstuhl, Germany, home to the United States’ largest international military hospital.

Dena Evans, director of the UNC Charlotte School of Nursing, has been selected to participate in a leadership training program offered by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). She is among 30 academic nursing leaders from across the nation who will join the 2018 AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program.

The event is being held at the University of Pennsylvania on Aug. 6-9; Wharton School faculty will present content designed to advance academic administrators to a higher level of leadership.

How one will respond in an emergency is unknown until faced with such a dilemma.  Across UNC Charlotte’s campus, hundreds of students in health-related majors study to become professionals trained to step in at those critical moments. During the spring semester, two UNC Charlotte exercise science students were called on to respond.

As director of the Academy for Population Health Innovation, Michael Dulin operates on the leading edge of the industry, exploring how technology can help communities address their most pressing public health challenges.

Joseph Konstanzer, a graduate of UNC Charlotte’s dual master’s program in public health and health informatics, has been named a public health fellow at Public Health Institute (PHI)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He will work out of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy.

Winsor Schmidt Jr., 69, the Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Policy on Health, died May 18 at the Levine & Dickson Hospice House-Huntersville. Services and interment will be held at the Kilpatrick Funeral Home in Ruston, Louisiana.

Harvey Murphy, chair emeritus of the Kinesiology Department, died Feb. 5, 2018. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 24, at Holy Covenant United Church of Christ.

According to the College of Health and Human Services, Murphy spent 31 years at the University, and he helped guide the institution’s growth while serving as s interim men’s basketball coach from 1965 to 1970 and athletics director from 1965 to 1972.