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Cook Counseling Center has new leader and location , articleThe new director, Sarah Jones, sees the center's move to Gilbert Street supporting tailored, collaborative services for students.
Date: Sep 06, 2023 -
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Cook Counseling creating student Serenity Space , articleThe student mental health resource welcomes Hokie Nation support
Date: May 25, 2023 -
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Cook Counseling answers diverse student needs with responsive care , articleCook Counseling meets students where they are with diverse services, staff, insights, and settings.
Date: May 02, 2023 -
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How it's going: Students offer perspectives on the Residential Well-being initiative , articleWith an emphasis on individual well-being, community strength, belonging and inclusion, and awareness of support resources, the Residential Well-being approach relies heavily on peer-to-peer interactions and relationships to improve the way students ExperienceVT.
Date: Apr 21, 2023 -
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Hokie Hiccups builds resilience through vulnerability , articleThe Hokie Wellness event acknowledges and celebrates the struggles or hiccups we all have by sharing growth experiences through expressive arts and creative mediums.
Date: Mar 20, 2023 -
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A farmer's death sparks Hokie alumna's advocacy for wellness efforts in agriculture , articleAmy Johnson found her calling as an advocate for mental and physical wellness in the farming industry after responding to an emergency in rural Virginia.
Date: Mar 10, 2023 -
Video ItemWelcome Virginia Tech's newest therapy dog, Epcot , video
The loveable black lab is joining his new best friends Derek, Josie, and Wagner as the newest addition to the Cook Counseling Center's family of therapy dogs. The VT therapy dogs hold office hours around campus and are available to anyone for support, companionship, and unconditional love.
Date: Feb 23, 2023 -
Video ItemVirginia Tech researcher's discovery may lead to a better understanding of mental health disorders related to stress, anxiety , video
By studying zebrafish, Albert Pan and his team at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute found a molecule critical in development of the brain's stress response.
Date: Feb 21, 2023 -
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Neuroscientists learn why PTSD patients relive highly charged fear memories in sleep , articleSujith Vijayan of the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience has led a research team in creating biophysically based models of the sleeping brain to explore at a deeper, mechanistic level how the brain may — or may not, with PTSD — effectively process and extinguish fear memories.
Date: Feb 07, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech awarded Higher Education Mental Health Workforce Pilot grant , articleVirginia Tech is one of six universities to receive funding to increase their mental health workforces from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia in consultation with the Virginia Health Care Foundation.
Date: Nov 17, 2022 -
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Study: Pandemic challenges compounded work-related stress for parents of children with special needs , articleIn a new study, Virginia Tech psychologists Charles Calderwood and Rosanna Breaux found that when parents who worked in jobs that were more chronically stressful, the daily family challenges they faced at home had a greater impact on their emotional well-being and sense of work-life balance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: Nov 01, 2022 -
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Neuroscience’s Matt Howe seeks to better understand how ingredients interact with people's dopamine system , articleTo figure out how individual foods affect the dopamine system and what happens when all of the ingredients are presented in combination, Matt Howe recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant.
Date: Oct 11, 2022 -
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A letter of support from Martha Glass, interim dean of students , articleAs a campus community, we are deeply saddened about the death of Masha Amini as well as others who have lost their lives while protesting in Iran. Our thoughts and hopes for peace are with our community members as well as their family members and friends who have connections to the region.
Date: Oct 05, 2022 -
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Residential Well-being initiative brings resources and experiences to students’ doors , article“Rather than expecting the students to find Virginia Tech’s world-class campus experiences on their own, we are surrounding the student with the key elements of first-year success inside of their living environment,” said Rebecca Caldwell, Virginia Tech’s first director of Residential Well-being.
Date: Aug 29, 2022 -
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Board learns of mental health support structures, new initiatives for student well-being , articleInterim Vice President for Student Affairs Frances Keene provided an overview of mental health support structures in place at Virginia Tech, and introduced two new initiatives for students aimed at developing habits of wellness and accessing help when they need it.
Date: Aug 24, 2022 -
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Round of a-paws for the dogs , articleKelsey Hammer, University Libraries digital literacy and multimedia production librarian who works on projects related to digital life, media creation, and collaboration, said one of her big projects has been combining efforts with the Virginia Tech therapy dogs to support students in finding joy, space, and support on campus — especially in Newman Library.
Date: Aug 22, 2022 -
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Virtual mental health counseling and wellness resources for students: anytime, anywhere, free, and fast , articleEven before it officially launched Aug. 12, students were registering for TimelyCare, a virtual health service that is the latest addition to Virginia Tech’s mental health and wellness resources.
Date: Aug 17, 2022 -
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University partnership to provide greater mental health support to students , articleThis agreement will bring additional, much-needed mental health assessment and treatment services to all students at participating colleges and universities at a time when student mental health concerns and needs are increasing across the nation.
Date: Jun 30, 2022 -
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Help for Hokies after graduation , articleVirginia Tech mental health professionals Erica Coates and Swathi Prabhu share insights and guidance related to mental health and well-being for Hokies to use during the months and years that follow graduation.
Date: May 17, 2022 -
Video ItemCollege of Engineering Holds Student Organized Volleyball Tournament , video
Matthew Drew, a senior in Materials Science and Engineering, organized a college-wide volleyball tournament for his fellow engineers. Drew felt that engineers could use a stress break and hoped the friendly competition would be a way for them to meet other Hokies. All departments from the College of Engineering were represented and battled it out to see who would be crowned champ.
Date: May 09, 2022
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