Summer Travels, part 1
It’s nice to have the summer to travel. For the past few years, I’ve spent most of the summer break driving around the US, visiting family, friends, and points of interest. I can be a workaholic during the school year,…
Category HAPS Leadership
Posts related to HAPS governance, including the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee.
And so it begins…
For many of you, July 1st may not have been any big deal. It may have meant you were one day closer to your 4th of July weekend. Perhaps it was the start of your schools fiscal year, and that…
Ready for… HAPS 2014? Tell us what you want!
The HAPS 2013 annual conference in Las Vegas had record attendance, and preliminary member survey results indicate that most found the event informative and enjoyable. However, less than a month after the 2013 conference’s end, the HAPS leadership is making…
HAPS Poker Walk: fun and merriment for a good cause
Among my duties as President-elect of HAPS was to organize and oversee the yearly 5K fun run/walk that is held during the Annual Conference. This event was developed a few years ago as a way to raise monies for the…
Getting ready for HAPS 2013 Conference!
In just a few short days, the HAPS 2013 Annual Conference will begin. Until I became active in HAPS leadership, I was blissfully unaware of all of the prep required months and years before the conference. Somehow everything magically fell…
Anatomy and physiology education at Experimental Biology 2013
I am writing this latest blog while on a plane, returning home to Indiana. Like many other HAPS members, I also am a member in several of our sister societies. This past week, many HAPS members put on their American…
Campus Safety
A little bit after noon on January 22, 2013 my phone began to nearly erupt out of my pocket as I taught class at Lone Star College-University Park. Even though I was teaching class the ridiculous amount of vibrations coming…
Building homes and partnerships with Medical Sciences and the community
Anatomy and physiology courses offer wonderful opportunities for service learning. Our students may volunteer at local health clinics and hospitals, they may organize health fairs for school children, and/or they may visit individuals in hospices and retirement homes. These service…
Is it over yet?
It is about this time in the spring semester that both students and faculty alike begin to ask themselves, “Is it over yet?” The answer, of course, is no it is not. For most, there are 4-5 more weeks of…
Developing Partnerships between HAPS and sister societies
One of the many benefits of working on the HAPS Board of Directors (BOD) is the opportunity to develop partnerships among HAPS and other national organizations (aka ‘sister societies’). HAPS already has strong relationships with a variety of organizations involved…