Kent McDill
BTN LiveBIG: Resource supporting cancer patients
BTN LiveBIG: Resource supporting cancer patients
When former University of Illinois engineering student Mallory Casperson was diagnosed with Hodgkin?s Lymphoma, she got high-quality medical care. Today, she?s three years cancer-free. She gave credit to her oncologists and others who helped her overcome the disease, while noting that they didn?t provide as much emotional support as she expected. Not that they had […]
BTN LiveBIG: Social media improving health?
BTN LiveBIG: Social media improving health?
For better or worse, social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are an indelible feature of modern life. A research team of professors and students at Penn State?s College of Medicine is trying to create a tool that can help scientists determine how to prompt social media users to live a healthier lifestyle. Using previously […]
BTN LiveBIG: Alzheimer's patients, NU students partner
BTN LiveBIG: Alzheimer's patients, NU students partner
At Northwestern University, a unique spin on the Buddy System is pairing first-year medical students with people who suffer from the early stages of Alzheimer?s disease or related dementias. The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer?s Disease Center (CNADC), part of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, created The Buddy Program in 1998 to allow students […]
BTN LiveBIG: Illinois, NU create self-charging heart
BTN LiveBIG: Illinois, NU create self-charging heart
The human heart is one of the most incredible natural phenomena in existence. The ways in which it powers various functions of the human body is one of the great wonders of life. Yonggang Huang and John Rogers, professors at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, respectively, have spent much of their careers studying […]
BTN LiveBIG: Maryland student help girls in Nigeria
BTN LiveBIG: Maryland student help girls in Nigeria
When terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of school girls in Nigeria in May of this year, it made headlines around the world and sparked a grassroots social media campaign that centered around the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. For University of Maryland student Jennifer Soba Pearse, the news hit close to home - figuratively and literally. […]
BTN LiveBIG: Evans Scholarships driving education home
BTN LiveBIG: Evans Scholarships driving education home
The Evans Scholarship is one of the most prestigious awards available in the United States, and it has an influence over its scholars for not only the time they are in college but the years that follow. But the influence goes beyond the financial aid it provides the college students. Golf caddies who demonstrate the […]
