Last week my dog Loki turned three. She’s the third dog in my life. There was Boop – the dog of my childhood – and Zeke – our first cattle dog. I used to haul Boop up into our crabapple tree in a bucket or put her in the hammock with me. I have a …
Image courtesy of Creative Commons By Jessica Landgraf While the syllabus is an important component of a college course at any level, over the last decade they have morphed into new beasts, made up of copious amounts of class specific information supplemented with institutional policies, personal preference statements, and living document clauses leading to a …
The Michigan House Appropriations Committee recently began reviewing HB 5118, a bill that would amend Section 308 of the Michigan Mental Health Code to modify how the Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) funds the community mental health boards (CMHs) in Michigan. This bill would replace the old funding model, which is based on …
Many studies over the years have found that aerobic exercise improves cognitive performance. The following are just a sample of those published in the last 12 months: “Mind racing: The influence of exercise on long-term memory consolidation“, published in Memory, found that aerobic exercise improved the learning of procedures or written text whether the subjects …
What do you do when experiences during (and possibly related to) grad school paralyze you with fear or other strong emotions? How do you press on, perform, and progress in your degree when sitting down at the keyboard strikes terror in your heart? Drawing on the research of Brené Brown, a shame and vulnerability researcher …