The new academic year begins on August 24th! We are excited to welcome our newest blue jays – 60 freshmen! They will join 47 sophomores, 48 juniors, 40 seniors and 46 graduate students for a grand total of 241! Here …
SAVE THE DATE – November 7, 2015 Safe Patient Handling: Maximizing Rehabilitation Outcomes for Clients & Promoting Cultural Change in Health Care Settings Learn about recent federal guidelines regarding safe patient handling in a variety of health care settings. Through plenary …
Safe Patient Handling – Conference coming to Etown this fall Read more →
On Monday, May 18, a group of 20 students (occupational therapy, social work, education, anthropology, and communication) and two faculty members will depart for a humanitarian/service-learning trip to Vietnam. They will join staff members and sponsors from Brittany’s Hope, a …
BETHESDA, MD (June 10, 2014)—The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) has appointed Lorie Gage Richards, PhD, OTR/L, as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT). Richards is chair of and a tenured associate professor in the Division of …
Meet the new AJOT editor – Lorie Gage Richards, PhD, OTR/L (’83) Read more →
Kelly Downs recently obtained a Graduate Certificate in Low Vision Rehab from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The online coursework took 5 year-round semesters for a total of 19 credits and included an intensive weekend in Birmingham in …
The department hosted its annual alumni reunion on Saturday, October 18 from 3:00 to 4:30 in Esbenshade 360. The event was attended by alumni from every decade in the program’s history: 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, and the …
Class notes from the Etown Alumni office: Congratulations to Karen (Cocklin) Tushek ’89, Christine (Hunsinger) Meister ’89 and Amy (Fladmark) Waldkoenig ’89 who received their Doctorates in Occupational Therapy (OTD) from Chatham University in May, 2014
Join us for Homecoming this year and look back on 38 years of Etown graduates; 40+ years of memories. We will be highlighting the 10th year of the Master’s program with a photo display. You will also have a chance to …
About 60 alumni and faculty members attended a reception at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor on Friday, April 4 during AOTA’s Annual Conference. Attendees included clinicians from our very first graduating class, 1976, our most recent class, 2013 and every …
The third annual Running for Rachel 5K fundraiser was held on City Island in Harrisburg on Sunday April 27. The weather was beautiful and over 900 runners and walkers turned out in support of the event which raises money for duodenal and …