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EXSC Honored Graduate: Anne Shull's Journey of Self-Discovery

April 22, 2024
Anne Shull used to stress about getting everything done perfectly. As professors guided her to reframe her college expectations, she started taking better care of her body and spirit.
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Dissection, Dancing, and Deity: Annie Smedley

April 10, 2024
Annie Smedley is closing out her master's degree with a jeté. Her hard-won skill to ask better questions helped her note a pattern in a literature review, which evolved into an interdisciplinary project studying ballet dancers and their injuries.
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Faith, Determination, and Resilience: Earlene Durrant’s 2023 Honored Alumni Lecture

December 14, 2023
Seventh grade Earlene Durrant (Physical Education EdD '75) was determined to be a physical education teacher at BYU. Little did she know that she would transform the department.
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Dr. Jake Sorensen: Pursuing Health and Healing

September 13, 2023
Meet Jake Sorensen, a new assistant professor of exercise sciences working to understand aging, health, and healing.
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Getting Diabetics Back on Their Feet

June 09, 2023
Andrew Hillier and Seth Huber combine public health and engineering at BYU to speed up healing for the foot ulcers of people with diabetes. The students' foot braces take stress off the foot and reduce the need for amputation.
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Huddled Up for Healing: Working with the Football Team to Address a Degenerative Brain Disease

July 21, 2022
In 2002, the death of legendary NFL center Mike Webster introduced the world to the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The disease is marked by depression, rage, substance abuse, cognitive dysfunction, and dementia, and diagnoses are rising rapidly among retired football players.
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Can You Age Out of Exercising?

March 01, 2022
The sun blazed down on the sidewalk of Provo’s Center Street as community members pounded the pavement to the finish line. The marathon started before the sun had even risen, and amongst the clumps of college students was an older gentleman dressed in bright yellow. He finished in under five hours.
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