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