Category: Health

Occupational Clinician Hosts First Self-Care Saturday Event 

By Ridimerb Diaz- Ramirez | Published on March 18, 2024 The first Self-Care Saturday event had an agenda that consisted of an introduction, the self-care categories, a touch on emotional/mental/physical/spiritual/professional self-care, barriers, and a self-care wheel. Self-Care Saturday is an event that focuses on the things people should incorporate into their lives to take care of themselves.   Occupational clinician Krystle […]

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COVID-19 is Real

By Ridimerb Diaz-Ramirez | Published October 16, 2023 On April 12, 2020, I received a phone call from the hospital stating that my grandmother, Felicita Beltre, had passed away due to pneumonia caused by COVID-19. COVID-19 seemed like a made-up disease to so many people, including me. Reality quickly hit once we got the call telling us my grandmother was gone.  Two […]

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Staff and Students De-stress at Kean Ocean Community Yoga

By Logan Germano | Published November 19, 2022 On Tuesday afternoons throughout the fall semester, Kean Ocean academic specialist Taryn Schlosser welcomes students and faculty to join her inside Room 108 of the Hovnanian Health Sciences Building at Ocean County College to put their schoolwork aside and unwind. “People come here as a safe space to escape from the stressors […]

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Keans Mental Health Fair

By Ja’Bria Lester | Published November 3, 2022 Life as we know it could take a big toll on our mental health and could affect anyone, especially college students. The older we get, the more responsibilities we have to take on whether it’s with school, family, bills, or even our personal lives. Kean University ensures that students are being recognized […]

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Build a Cougar: Suicide Prevention Awareness

By Josephine Carrillo | Published September 29, 2022 To recognize Suicide Prevention Awareness month, Kean Programing for unique and lively Student Experience (Pulse), hosted their annual  “Building Hope” event in the Miron Student Center Atrium.  The event held on Sept. 12, has students lined up 30 minutes before the event started to participate in building their very own mini cougar, […]

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Kean University Hosts The Year’s First Operation Smile

By Rosney Herrera | Published February 28, 2022 Kean University hosts several events throughout the semester and this year they’re scheduled to host Operation Smile on March 2, 2022, at East Campus. Operation Smile is an organization created in the Fall of 2009 by a group of Kean University students. It works to educate the masses about and finance surgeries […]

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Kean University Returns for Spring 2022 with Two Weeks Virtual, Followed by a Return to Campus

By Victoria Cifelli | Published 25, 2022 Students relived the 2020 quarantine experience after Kean University stated that the first two weeks of the current spring semester would be remote due to the increase in COVID-19 cases.  With the increase in COVID cases and spread of the new Omicron variant, the University set out to keep it’s students and faculty […]

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American Heart Month

By Julia Strugala | Published Feb 24, 2022 February is American Heart Month, a time when all people can focus on their cardiovascular health. In the midst of the pandemic, stress and anxiety levels for college students have been at an all time high. Along with healthy eating and a minimum of fifteen minutes of exercise per day, there are […]

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Keep Your Heart Healthy With These Kean Resources

By Julia Strugala | Published February 21, 2022 With this week wrapping up American Heart Month, I wanted to use my voice one last time to spread information and resources on what Kean students can do to improve their health. Thankfully, Kean has an involved student body that comes together to better one another. In a conversation with Dr. Consuelo […]

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