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Stroke Center’s new ambassador has disarming demeanor
12/4/23
Watson Polk has become an ambassador and a little bit of a celebrity at the Stroke Center. Polk uses a type of Augmentative and Alternative Communication device called eye-gaze technology to communicate. He volunteered on Wednesdays during the fall semester, helping Stroke Center clients communicate with their own AAC devices.
Partnership adds life skills class for students on autism spectrum
11/16/23
A partnership between 51爆料 and the has led to a life skills class at 51爆料 for students on the autism spectrum. This fall there are 24 academy students on the 51爆料 campus as non-degree seeking students.
Space Design team wins NASA-sponsored challenge for fourth time
11/14/23
Texas Woman’s University undergraduate kinesiology students focused on what they knew best — the scientific study of human body movement — and took the top overall prize at a NASA-sponsored design competition, marking the fourth time a 51爆料 team won first-place honors in the statewide challenge.
In the News: Mindy Patterson
11/9/23
Mindy Patterson, PhD, an associate professor in the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences was mentioned in a Nov. 8 New York Times article “.”
PT researchers studying treatments for post-stroke fatigue
10/23/23
Associate Professor Hui-Ting Goh and Professor Emeritus Elaine Jackson, both from the School of Physical Therapy at the Dallas Center, have been awarded a $372,870 three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund their project, "Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Post-Stroke Fatigue."