Promote Discovery and Service
Exercise physiology graduate students study exercise training, metabolism, fitness and nutrition.
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Program Goals:
Teaching students, helping society
Goal: $1.5 Million
Programs in the College of Human Environmental Sciences change and enrich lives. They address basic, critical challenges to qulity of life. Their impact extends beyond campus to improve the health and environment of society. Friends and alumni have contributed generously to support these essential programs, but many needs are as yet unfunded.
Child Life
MU’s Child Life program is one of only 33 in the country that trains specialists to help children cope with trauma resulting from serious illness or injury. The program needs resource materials and financial support to help students apply their knowledge in clinical settings.
Office for Financial Success
The Office for Financial Success improves the financial literacy of students and the public. Students learn personal financial planning and consumer and family economics. They counsel peers and others in the community to help them avoid debt, maximize budgets and find help with taxes. Support for this office ensures that its popular services will continue.
Apparel Technology Lab
The Apparel Technology Lab is a computer-based center that showcases equipment and software used in the sewn products industry. Students get hands-on experience with the latest industrial equipment. The lab needs your support to keep supplies, software and equipment current with
advances in technology.
Technology Support
The School of Social Work needs laptop computers, printers, software and equipment for their distance learning lab. Architectural Studies needs technology updates in visual imagery, including 3D modeling and rendering and other digital design equipment.
Obesity Initiative
The Obesity Initiative brings together students in nutrition and exercise physiology to tackle the national epidemic of obesity and lifestyle-related conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Support for this initiative benefits the students as well as 100 participants who are learning about healthy lifestyle changes through the program.
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