Human Health and Wellness

Counseling master’s student empowers underrepresented students in STEM
Stephanie Zackery, an Oklahoma State University master’s student in mental health counseling is working to bring more underrepresented students into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professions.
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The OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah officially opens with small ceremony Jan. 15 that will be livestreamed on OState.tv

Physiology major Audrey Self wanted to be a teacher, but realized that doctors teach people about their bodies. That led to a change in her career plans.

First announced in February 2020 as part of the Fiscal Year 2021 President’s Budget submitted to Congress, the $120 million federal appropriation to build a new veterans hospital in Tulsa was approved by Congress on Dec. 21 and signed into law by President Trump yesterday. The project, Veterans Hospital in Tulsa (VHiT), is the work of a collaboration among the federal government, state of Oklahoma, city of Tulsa, private philanthropy, and Oklahoma State University.

OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine students have partners with Oklahoma City nonprofit Limbs for Life to raise awareness of the organizations mission to collect donated prosthetics and then refurbish or recycle parts for patients who can't afford new prosthetics.
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- Scientists are finally investigating how breastfeeding alters women’s interest in foods
- Karina Shreffler: Someday we may protect pregnant women from premature birth by asking about their childhood
- Oklahoma leading the way in training Native American doctors
- Cherokee Nation, OSU Center for Health Sciences break ground on new medical school