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Health Sciences Research
Conducting leading research in health sciences is a priority. Our faculty members are active in several on-going research projects. Our students also have a number of research opportunities. Here is a sample of topics in which our departments are engaging:
- Addiction Counseling and Prevention: Advocating for the Addiction Profession
- Dental Hygiene: School-based Oral Health Prevention and Oral Health for the Elderly
- Health Sciences Major: Programmatic Assessment
- Medical Laboratory Science: Transfusion Medicine-Interdisciplinary Education
- Nursing: Population health
- Occupational Therapy: Occupation, Life Meaning, Health, and Well-being
- Physical Therapy: Special Populations
- Physician Assistant Studies: Noncognitive Variables in Physician Assistant Education
- Public Health: Rural Health
- Social Work: American Indian Health