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The College of Health and Human Services is proud to announce that the Master of Science in Health Informatics program will maintain accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). With this announcement, the MS in Health Informatics program has successfully met the CAHIIM accreditation standards for another year and remains in good standing.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s men’s and women’s basketball teams, led by head coaches Kim English and Vanessa Blair-Lewis, respectively, have announced their schedules for the upcoming season.

With COVID-19 continuing to spread throughout the world, there is a demand for rapid, noninvasive diagnostics. Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers Robin Couch and Allyson Dailey, members of the College of Science and the Institute of Biohealth Innovation, are working to answer that call with their research on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for infectious disease detection.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ graduate student Christopher Frost decided to focus his independent study on helping the Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Facility (WARF) to determine the needs of its community during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sharnnia Artis joined Â鶹ÊÓƵ on Sept. 1 as the new vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion and chief diversity officer. Before coming to Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Artis served as assistant dean of access and inclusion in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, one of the most diverse engineering programs in the nation.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Lighting the Way: Shelby Adams

Â鶹ÊÓƵ women's soccer standout Dacheka Kolcum lends a helping hand to her native Haiti.

In order for athletes to balance their routines with wellness, they need to apply the same principles as they did with sports, says Emmett Gill, term assistant professor in the Department of Social Work within the College of Health and Human Services at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ to collaborate with COMSovereign and Widelity on 5G innovation

David Rehr said he has spent his entire life thinking about how government can be more efficient and effective. That's a key reason he co-founded Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s RPA Initiative, in partnership with global software company UiPath, in January.

For Master of Public Health (MPH) student Jorge Garcia, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to obtain real-world experience in infectious disease surveillance by applying the skills he learned throughout his MPH courses while working at the Fairfax County Health Department.