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  1. Natural Vision Improvement
    Healing Eyesight from the Inside Out
  2. Healthy Campus Health Care Fair
    A campus community collaborative to support the health of our community.
  3. Take a Study Break
    Look for our relaxation station in the campus center during finals week. Stop by for a stress kit, a complementary reiki treatment, or a break in our massage chair.
  4. Wellness Wednesdays: Maum Meditation
    The director of the Boston Maum Medication Center will discuss how Maum Meditation can help to eliminate pain, stress, burden, loneliness, fear, and resentments.
  5. Wellness Wednesdays Series: Addiction, Mindfulness and Personal Authority
    Join Dr. Lawrence Peltz, author of The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery: A Practical Guide to Regaining Control Over Your Life, for a discussion about applying mindfulness to addiction recovery.
  6. Mindful Mondays Series: Coaching for Health & Well-being
    A transitions lifestyle coach will share some practical information and tips about how to manage your health, maintain a healthy diet, and achieve and maintain your healthy weight.
  7. Valentine’s Day GYT Event
    The only way to know for sure if you have an STD is to GYT (get yourself tested.)
  8. Get Yourself Tested
    The only way to know for sure if you have an STD is to GYT (get yourself tested.)
  9. National Stress Out Day
    The end of the semester is stressful. Managing that stress can be difficult. The UHS Health Education and Wellness Program stress busters can help.
  10. Wellness Wednesdays: Naturopathic Tools for Stress Management
    A naturopathic doctor will share stress management techniques and strategies to help you manage your busy and sometimes stressful life.
  11. Wellness Wednesdays: Healthy Lifestyle Profile
    Use a free online tool to create a detailed lifestyle profile, and then gain access to thousands of meal plans, exercise sequences, meditation techniques, and better sleep habits.
  12. Mindful Mondays Series: Mindful Movement
    Join a holistic nurse and educator for an hour of gentle movement and discover how more fully inhabiting your body can help you!
  13. National Take a Nap Day
    Join the University Health Services Health Education and Wellness Program for sleep tips, build a sleep kit, and add a 'pin' to the best place to take a nap on campus.
  14. Unplugging Day
    Take the Unplugged Challenge: Unplug and join us for an afternoon of discussion, connection, and creative outlets.
  15. Wellness Wednesdays Series: Acupuncture for Health
    Wellness Wednesday: Complementary/integrative approaches to enhance your health and well-being.
  16. The Day After World AIDS Day
    Find information about the types of testing available and where you can get tested. Make a red ribbon to show your support for those living with HIV and AIDS.
  17. Contemplative Practices Resource Fair
    Explore tools for living and learning.
  18. Mindfulness Day
    The University Health Services Health Education and Wellness Program will be providing mindfulness kits in the Campus Center.
  19. Master Your Mind, Power Up Your Performance: An Intro to Meditation and Mindfulness
    Wellness Wednesdays: Meditation and mindfulness techniques can help us enhance performance and manage daily stress more effectively.
  20. Reiki for Stress Reduction and Health
    Join the UHS Health Education and Wellness Program for a series of workshops and program offerings aimed at increasing your 'toolbox' of resources to effective cope and manage stress.
  21. The Great American Smokeout
    University Health Services will provide materials to build a "Quit Kit" for yourself or for a friend who you would like to support or encourage to quit smoking.
  22. Mindful Mondays
    Throughout the fall semester, the UHS Health Education and Wellness Program will provide a variety of activities and resources to help our campus community.
  23. Wellness Wednesdays
    This is the kickoff to a semester of wellness.
  24. 2013 UHS Fall Health and Wellness Fair
    Save the date for the University Health Services Annual Fall Health and Wellness Fair.
  25. National Alcohol Screening Day
    The University Health Services Health Education and Wellness program brings you free information and screenings regarding alcohol use.
  26. National Wellness Week: Happy the Movie
    Does money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution?
  27. Food Day Health Fair
    This is an opportunity to educate our UMass Boston campus community about the many local groups involved in efforts to improve the quality of our food and access to affordable high-quality foods.
  28. Recovery Celebration
    The University Health Services Health Education and Wellness Program is sponsoring a recovery resource fair at UMass Boston.
  29. National Depression Screening Day
    A confidential brief screening for depression will be offered on campus.
  30. All Recovery Retreat
    The All Recovery Retreat is a peer-led support group for anyone in recovery from any addiction, having taken any pathway to recovery.
  31. Flu Shots Available for Students, Faculty, Staff
    Members of the UMass Boston community can receive a flu shot right here on campus.
  32. Screening and Discussion: Weight of the Nation (Part 4: Challenges)
    The Exercise and Health Sciences Club and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences will host a free screening of a portion of this HBO documentary. A panel discussion will follow.
  33. Screening and Discussion: Weight of the Nation (Part 2: Choices)
    The Exercise and Health Sciences Club and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences will host a free screening of a portion of this HBO documentary. A panel discussion will follow.
  34. Inside Eating Disorders: A Personal Perspective
    This workshop is a way to learn about eating disorders from an invividual who has struggled with one.
  35. University Health Services Recognized for Providing High-Quality Care
    The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has approved University Health Services for accreditation for the third consecutive accreditation cycle.
  36. Eduardo Siqueira travels to North Carolina to meet with the NIOSH and NIEHS
    The Associate Director for Research at the Gastón Institute was invited to North Carolina by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, to discuss a curriculum for Occupational Health Disparities.
  37. Born to Run Author Christopher McDougall will Speak at UMass Boston Thursday
    Best-selling author Christopher McDougall will speak about his book, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen, on Thursday, April 12, at 1:30 p.m. in the Ryan Lounge.
  38. Lecture: “Three Bodies: Rethinking Environmental Health and Food Production in Mohawk Community”
    Guest lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, Anthropology (Brown University)
  39. Lecture: Aging, Race/Ethnicity, and Oral Health in the U.S.
    Gerontology Institute Colloquium series hosts Bei Wu, PhD
  40. Promoting Health and Fitness Outside the Classroom
    CNHS faculty practice what they teach through their involvement in a 7K and regular fitness routines.
  41. GoKids SnapShot, Fall 2011
    Kids Helping Kids Find A New Balance
  42. The Third Annual UMass 5-Campus PhD Nursing Student Forum
    PhD students and faculty are invited to join UMass colleagues at this student forum. Keynote speaker: Dr. Afaf Meleis, "Transitions: A Journey Toward Integration of Knowledge".
  43. Health Fair
    Research shows that good physical and emotional health also benefits your GPA, so come to our Health Fair!
  44. UMass Boston Study Takes In-Depth Look at Midwifery Workforce in Massachusetts
    A Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy report shows the number of nurse-midwife-attended births more than doubled between 1990 and 2008 in Massachusetts.
  45. UMass Boston’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences Ranked No. 50 in Nation
    UMass Boston's College of Nursing and Health Sciences ranks among the nation’s best nursing schools, according to U.S. News & World Report.
  46. Luncheon Celebrates Faculty Success in Research,  Innovation, Scholarship, and Creativity
    More than 200 faculty, researchers, staff, and students attended a lunch which celebrated faculty success in research, innovation, and creativity.
  47. UMass Boston Students Find Their Hearts in Kenya
    This was the third summer UMass Boston's College of Nursing and Health Sciences students have traveled to Kenya to screen for heart disease and diabetes.
  48. Success in Reducing Urban Community Health Disparities on the Horizon
    At the Horizon Center, UMass Boston functions as a ‘lab to the community,’ which involves listening to Roxbury residents and the health issues they face.
  49. International Conference at UMass Boston Spotlights New Paradigm in Preparedness
    UMass Boston sponsored an international conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with the Elderly and Disabled People after Disasters in July.