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Help others live a happy and healthy life through courses and hands-on experience in human physiology, biomedical science, and behavioral health at the UO.
Students in Human Physiology 410 don’t have exams. Instead, they work as “aerospace physiologists” for E-Ray Technologies, a fictional company sending astronauts to Mars. Over the term, students solve real problems facing humans in outer space, while learning human physiology and collaboration skills along the way.
Anne Libby has gone back to her roots. With a child behavioral health degree from the Ballmer Institute, she works at the clinic that supported her as a child. Libby helps children navigate issues using techniques from her training—skills she wishes she had better access to in her youth.
With a long history of brain research, the UO is the first public university in the state to offer an undergraduate neuroscience major. This interdisciplinary field combines biology, psychology, and human physiology to examine the nervous system, from understanding neurodegenerative diseases to uncovering how the brain processes the visual world.
After an ACL tear interrupted Caroline Foskett’s high school soccer season, she wondered about the healing and recovery process in her knee. Years later, as a human physiology major, she dug deeper into the questions sparked by her injury, researching ways to improve healing in severe bone fractures.
Inspired by teaching neuroscience to Tibetan monks, professor David McCormick developed the Happiness - A Neuroscience and Psychology Perspective course to examine the science behind mental well-being and explore how our brains regulate and respond to anxiety and stress, meditation, social relationships, and more.
Learn to help people live and thrive through majors in neuroscience, human physiology, communication disorders, child behavioral health, and related fields that improve human health and performance.
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