a blue whistle hangs on a lifeguard chair with a public community pool in the background

College of Public Health to offer credit to students who become public pool lifeguards ​

In a new collaboration with Philadelphia’s Office of Parks and Recreation, Temple University’s College of Public Health will offer three university credit hours to current Temple students who become certified and work as a lifeguard at a city pool this summer. Six public pools are located within a mile of Temple’s main campus, giving students an opportunity to earn valuable work experience in the North Philadelphia community while earning college credit. This new opportunity is offered through the college’s Kinesiology Physical Activity Program (KPAP). “Lifeguards a...
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'Managing Diabetes in Disability' program takes peer-driven approach

An innovative proposal from Temple’s College of Public Health is one of five community-based programs selected to receive funding to combat diabetes and obesity in Philadelphia. Cities Changing Diabetes will provide seed funding to a project proposed by Gretchen Snethen, Bryan McCormick, Shivayogi Hiremath and Ann Dolloff of the College of Public Health. Their plan, “Developing a Peer and Community Approach for Managing Diabetes in Disability” is aimed at training peers and using community resources to help people with physical and intellectual disabilities manage their...
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a student striking an instructor in the personal defense class

Class teaches skills to fight back against assailants

Sixteen students enrolled in Personal Defense for Women, a two-credit class in the College of Public Health’s Kinesiology Department, form a large circle around instructor Jeff Chapman in a gymnasium at the back of McGonigle Hall. The young women are wearing their regular classroom clothes. Having trained for weeks, they’re ready to fight.    “We’re going to do some striking drills, and then I’m gonna use this dummy to attack them,” Chapman says. He points to the dummy, a thick red pad that’s in the shape of a human torso. The women shadow-box moves that they...
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