Student Resources

Massage for Boosting Immunity with Alysann

| Emily Keeler

Massage for Boosting Immunity with Alysann

 

Thursday, February 24, 2022

6:00 pm

ZOOM – RSVP HERE

 

Grab a partner and join Alysann Jones, an experienced licensed massage therapist with over 17 years of experience, will lead participants in a virtual experience to learn how to massage themselves and others in order to boost immune response. You will gain hands on experience and the class is designed to be fun and informative and no previous experience is necessary. You will learn professional tips on how to give a good massage, what to avoid, as well as how to avoid injuries to yourself and others.

 

Please note, this class is not suitable if you have a compromised immune system, are ill, or have lymphedema. Participants should be aware of their abilities, and assume responsibility for their participation.

 

Participants are encouraged to pair up with a friend or loved one for this event in order to practice the activities in real time.

Beat Michigan Wellness Blitz!

| Emily Keeler

It’s the College of Pharmacy 

Beat Michigan (Wellness) Blitz 

November 16-December 1, 2021 

The rivalry with Michigan and Michigan State are real, and you can get real about your wellness as we celebrate our upcoming games with the “Team Up North”! Remember, every time you participate in a COP wellness event you get a raffle ticket for our end-of-the-semester raffle.  

 

Texting Touchdown!
November 16-December 1, 2021
Sign up for student wellness texts: https://www.remind.com/join/rxwellness 
Sign up for faculty/staff wellness texts: https://www.remind.com/join/bewellcop  

Sign up to receive text messages from our Wellness Team and every day between November 16 and December 1, those who opt in will receive an OSU trivia question. Text your reply back by 6 pm for an entry into the raffle and correct answers get an extra entry. If we get a touchdown for each day (at least six correct answers for every question) be on the lookout for a special treat on December 2 in the Parks Lobby! 

Buckeye Blood Battle
Month of November
During the month of November, Ohio State University and University of Michigan take their rivalry off the field to help save some lives. The two archrivals will be partnering up with their respective blood service organizations to see who can bring in more blood donations leading up to the rivalry game. To help out OHIO STATE, you can volunteer at a blood drive, sponsor a drive, or donate blood! Click on the link below. This year, our goal is 1,500 donations. 
https://www.buckeyebloodosu.com/about 

Make Your Own Buckeye Necklace
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
2:30-4 pm in the Riffe Lobby
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Swing by to make your very own Buckeye Necklace with REAL buckeyes from Ohio’s second largest Buckeye tree. You can make it there or take the supplies with you to make at home. Show your scarlet and gray love! 

Scarlet and Gray Wellness Walk
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Meet at 11:30 in the Riffe Lobby
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Strap on your walking shoes and don your best scarlet and gray as we take a lap around campus! The walk will be approximately 30 minutes. 

Coach’s Coffee
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
8-9:30 am
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Swing us outside the Parks Hall classrooms for coffee, tea, and healthy breakfast treats to take with you or stay and socialize with your fellow COP family. 

Victory Lap
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
11:30 am
Parks 250
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Join us as we celebrate our victory (hopefully) and hold our annual end-of-the-semester wellness raffle. Get your red tickets in by this date to be eligible for the raffle! Due to COVID we will not have a potluck, but light healthy snacks will be available to take with you. 

New safety enhancements for Ohio State students and community members.

| Emily Keeler
 

A suite of safety enhancements for The Ohio State University students and community members is now available as the university continues to pursue ways to strengthen safety on and off campus.

Protecting the campus community and keeping students, faculty, staff and families informed remain our top priorities. The following new tools help add to an existing toolkit of safety resources:

  • Stay Safe, Buckeyes is an online safety class that teaches students how to enhance their own safety through scenario-based exercises. Students can take the interactive course via BuckeyeLearn. Parents and interested community members can watch all 10 videos on YouTube.
    • Classes focus on topics most relevant to students who live and gather off-campus and include crime prevention, crime reporting, when and why the university issues safety notices, mental health, police engagement and the differences between where Ohio State and Columbus police patrol.
  • Portable personal safety devices that students can attach to their backpacks or purses and pull to signal a loud alarm. The Office of Student Life is offering thousands of these devices that can attract attention in the case of an emergency. This is in addition to the nearly 5,000 window and door alarms, safety timers and smoke alarm batteries that have already been distributed to students this year. Students can register for a pickup time online to get one of the devices at the Willie J. Young, Sr. Off-Campus and Commuter Student Engagement office in the Ohio Union.
  • Increasing access to Ohio State News Alerts – the new communications tool that offers timely updates to students, faculty and staff ­­­– to parents and families of students. These are separate and distinct from Buckeye Alerts. Instead, these brief, timely updates are designed to provide safety tips and information, health resources, timely traffic information and more.
  • Expanding the Office of Student Life’s Community Ambassador program. Another outcome of the safety task force, ambassadors – students who serve as off-campus advocates and focus on an assigned off-campus area to help promote a safer, engaged and collaborative community ­– is expanding in size and scope.

The university recently expanded Lyft Ride Smart at Ohio State into the Short North area along High Street. Program hours run 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. and the discounted rides are no longer capped each month.

“These new offerings provide students with additional tools and give parents and families more information about what’s happening around campus,” President Kristina M. Johnson said in an email to the campus community.

Other recent additions include increased private security and mobile lighting and camera systems to support police patrols in the off-campus area.

After the tragic death last October of Ohio State student Chase Meola, President Johnson established the Task Force on Community Safety and Well-Being to help identify and implement holistic solutions to safety and well-being in the campus area.

So far, 13 of the task force’s 15 recommendations from the task force have been partially or fully implemented. An overview of safety measures and actions, and how the university has communicated about safety issues, can be seen here via the Department of Public Safety.

 

PharmD Opportunity – Art of Analysis

| Emily Keeler

“I will approach patients with an open and curious mind, not brush off something that doesn’t make sense to me, and not anchor to one thing or diagnosis and stop exploring” – past participant  

The Art of Analysis brings together students from all seven of the health science colleges at OSU for an evening at the Columbus Museum of Art, exploring art and developing analytical and empathetic skills needed for the medical profession. This single-evening program supports a culture of close looking and collaborative learning, using art as a catalyst for conversation and new ways of thinking. No prior experience with the arts is necessary.
October 7, 2021
6:00 – 7:30pm

Columbus Museum of Art
480 E. Broad St.
 

Art of Analysis is offered free-of-charge and is open to a select number of students from the OSU Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry, Pharmacy, Public Health, Veterinary Medicine, and undergraduates in the Humanism in Medicine program.

Contact Tracie McCambridge to sign up:

tracie.mccambridge@osumc.edu

 
Medicine & the Arts is part of the Linda C. Stone, MD, Program for Humanism & the Arts in Medicine and is supported by grants from the Ohio State University College of Medicine, the OSU College of Medicine Alumni Society, the Wexner Medical Center Service Board and generous donors to the Medicine and the Arts Fund with the OSU Foundation.

Safety Spotlight: RAVE Guardian

| Emily Keeler
Never walk alone again. Download Rave Guardian, a free safety app for students, faculty and staff that can enhance safety as you travel to and from campus. In this week’s Safety Spotlight, OSUPD’s Lt. Marjorie Rizalvo shows users how to use the app to select friends or family to follow them virtually via GPS tracking as they travel. Watch the video to get started.
 

What’s your wellness plan?

| Emily Keeler

The Ohio State: Wellness app is a resource created to help students build well-being skills, understand their options and connect to care more easily. Sharing the app with the students you instruct, advise or work with at the start of the semester can be helpful encouragement for them to explore resources early and get support if they need it. Consider using one of these sample messages in your early-semester communications to students and encourage them to take advantage of our newest feature, the Wellness Plan. They can use this proactive tool to consider how they will care for their well-being throughout the semester and build a game plan for resilience.

Urgent need for blood donations

| Emily Keeler
The entire country is currently experiencing a blood shortage and the situation is especially serious in central Ohio. One donation of a pint of blood can save up to three lives. In central Ohio, some hospitals are approaching critical shortages and may soon have to take steps to conserve blood supplies. Whether you’re a regular blood donor or not, we urge everyone to donate today. When donating blood with Versiti, all donations go to Ohio State.
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