CHR Investigators in the News

2023

• Cal Poly to expand health services for Hispanic and Indigenous women in North Santa Barbara County

• BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY Podcast

• Cal Poly's mobile health clinic is offering services to support uninsured women of color

• Cal Poly Study Finds Behavioral, Psychological Factors Critical Factors in Maintaining Healthy Habits

• Cal Poly's mobile health clinic is offering services to support uninsured women of color 

• Photo gallery showcases Breast Cancer Research project in Santa Maria 

• Cal Poly to expand health services for Hispanic and Indigenous women in North Santa Barbara County 

2022

• Cal Poly Center for Health Research receives a $5.6M grant

• Professor Co-authors Research Article Examining Strategies to Maintain Weight Loss After Regain 

2021

• Learning Loss & The Digital Divide

2020

• Think You’re Eating More During The Stay-At-Home Orders? Experts Do, Too

• Navigating Self Care During The Pandemic

• How to Lose Weight and Keep It Off

2019

• Ali Ventura from Kinesiology and Public Health leads a study looking for local moms for bottle-feeding study.

• Ali Ventura from Kinesiology and Public Health leads a study looking for mothers to participate in infant feeding study. 

• Kari Pilolla from Food Science & Nutrition reveals the two things you should avoid eating if you want to lose belly fat.

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health coordinates partnership with Cal Poly and SLO Noor to offer free health services in North County.

2018

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health coordinates for Cal Poly and Noor Foundation to provide women's health care in northern Santa Barbara County.

• Kari Pilolla from Food Science & Nutrition talks about 5 foods that can help you combat belly fat.

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health discuss CHR study testing meal replacements in pregnancy.

• Kari Pilolla from Food Science & Nutrition talks about 2 things you should avoid eating if you want to lose belly fat.

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health and colleagues’ study on effective pregnancy lifestyle intervention was covered in the New York Times.

• Kari Pilolla from Food Science & Nutrition talks about how to get a flat stomach.

• Peggy Papathakis from Food Science & Nutrition receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to create nutrition training program in America.

• Coleen Carrigan from Social Sciences Department wins prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

• Coleen Carrigan from Social Sciences Department is involved in new program to help women in STEM overcome gender discrimination.

2017

• Sarah Keadle from Kinesiology and Public Health and colleagues’ study on hazards of sedentary lifestyle was covered in the New York Times.

• Ali Ventura from Kinesiology and Public Health writes in a study about struggling to get your kids to eat healthy.

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health presents in the Distinguished Scholarship Award Colloquium of 2017.

• Alison Ventura from Kinesiology and Public Health leads a study to find that mothers can get distracted while feeding their babies.

2016

• Steve Klisch from the department of Mechanical Engineering gets $500,000 grant to improve amputees’ lives.

• Steve Klisch from the department of Mechanical Engineering gets awarded grant to prevent osteoarthritis in people with amputations.

• Steve Klisch from the department of Mechanical Engineering gets awarded grant to research people with amputations. 

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health receives $2.8 million grant for gestational diabetes research.

• Brennan Davis from the Department of Marketing at the Orfalea College of Business named emerging scholar by American Marketing Association.  

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health receives grant for federal funding for gestational diabetes prevention program.

2015

• Andrew Schaffner from the Department of Statistics starts a new data science program.

2014

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health talks about pregnancy as a teachable moment for weight control and obesity.

• Todd Hagobian from Kinesiology and Public Health partakes in a study that aims to change the fitness status quo around pregnancies.

• Suzanne Phelan from Kinesiology and Public Health talks about studying pregnancy weight in mothers.