Through consulting services and educational programming, SBDC helps businesses “start, grow, and prosper,” said director Lenin Agudo. Helping fill service needs in Chester and beyond, while providing students like Ross with hands-on, practical field experience, is the goal of Widener’s community clinics and centers. Through OCEANUS, Freund will work along other students, attend field trips and participate in weekly workshops on topics such as scientific research and communication, leadership and professional development. Without the clinic, the community would suffer, she said. As a McNair scholar, she has worked with professor Jim Malley on research pertaining to the societal, economic and environmental aspects of providing clean and safe drinking water to small communities and is a member of the MalleyCats research group. At the clinic, social work interns like Ross provide free counseling services to vulnerable adults, including people with intellectual disabilities or those at risk of homelessness. As part of their management capstone project, for example, students serve as business consultants for real SBDC clients. This research found that people who perceive their work as benefitting others experienced more meaningfulness in their work. Helping others can be done each and every day. Past research has shown that helping others has a wide variety of benefits: Being kind and helpful can make us happier, give us a sense of purpose and meaning, and even lower our blood pressure.People across cultures seem to experience greater well-being when they help others, suggesting this may be a human universal. “She is inspiring other first-generation, underrepresented, women and minorities to pursue careers in STEM and perform research.”. Julissa Freund ’20 is passionate about helping others. Now Gumbo is part of that mission, serving as an assistant business consultant. They found that the people whose experiences best matched their motivations were more satisfied with the experience. While helping clients, he’s developing the skills needed to pursue a career in international business and to realize his dream of starting his own company. Messages to other people who are involved or are thinking about it, Messages to professional health researchers, Reasons for getting involved – personal benefit, Messages to other people who are involved or thinking about it. For our experiences to help us connect with others, we need to move beyond rumination to developing insight (understanding) into what has occurred. The work with Malley led Freund to seek research experiences where she could gain new experiences and connections. Do you think the involvement has made it some way, made you change how you think about yourself? “This place brings life and happiness to people who would not have found it in other institutions.”. Helping others by improving research is a long-term project; it may make a difference to people many years down the line, people you will never meet. Although none of us has ever started a new academic year at a time of such disruption, I am more grateful than ever to welcome you the start of this school year. Helping fill service needs in Chester and beyond, while providing students like Ross with hands-on, practical field experience, is the goal of Widener’s community clinics and centers. UNH Today is produced for the UNH community and for friends of UNH. Carolyn Schwartz, a research professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, didn’t start out looking at the value of helping others. UNH Today  •  UNH Main Directory: 603-862-1234 It’s part of how we grow together with others. Patriot Gumbo, an MBA student from Kenya, came to Widener specifically because of SBDC. The work with Malley led Freund to seek research experiences where she could gain new experiences and connections. Last year, the center assisted 302 clients, resulting in $13 million in capital investments. “I am still learning about my field in determining what graduate program and career path I want to pursue.”, Julissa Freund ’20 lands competitive research experience focused on oil spills. And it opens our eyes to the things our clients deal with. “We helped clients that were often told by others that they couldn’t be helped,” he said. Each is located on campus or nearby, and offers free or reduced-cost services. The stories are written by the staff of UNH Communications and Public Affairs. She discovered her calling to conduct research that makes a difference following her sophomore year at UNH. Email us: unhtoday.editor@unh.edu. The clinic helps us get our techniques down. The center is also helping Widener students gain practical experience. The Staten Island, New York, resident credits the mentoring she has received for her success at UNH. Instead, she wanted to see if receiving monthly peer-support phone calls from fellow multiple sclerosis sufferers would benefit others with the disease. “Many of us don’t just have physical needs; we have social, emotional, and mental health needs, too,” said Jill Black, interim physical therapy program director and pro bono service coordinator. Widener also operates the Child Development Center, and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC). Or, it could be perceptual experience: “You seem to be putting a lot of time and energy into your hobby.” Sharing your experience builds connection and relationship. Yes. Because obviously… I’ve experienced cancer, obviously it has its afflictions and obviously kind of having to kind of discuss it so objectively, some of the time, can be quite, yeah quite hard. What is patient and public involvement (‘PPI’) in research? A first-generation college student, Freund arrived at UNH without knowing any other students but became quickly acclimated through UNH’s Connect STEM, which supports first-generation and multicultural students as they make the transition from high school to college. Most of the clinics and centers provide human health assistance. I think they’ve complemented each other quite well. Copyright © 2020  •  TTY Users: 7-1-1 or 800-735-2964 (Relay NH)USNH Privacy Policies  •  USNH Terms of Use  •  ADA Acknowledgement. “For a university to have this many clinics and not have a medical school, I can’t think of any others like that,” said Mary Lazar, director of NAC, which conducts neuropsychological evaluations of children and adults with developmental and acquired conditions. In this summary we look mainly at what might be called ‘altruistic’ reasons - wanting to help other people, improve research and make care better for future generations. For instance, NAC may evaluate a child and recommend treatment at the Child Therapy Clinic. Housed at CityTeam in Chester, Widener’s nursing clinic likewise offers pro bono medical care to uninsured/underinsured individuals while providing students with experience in a non-hospital setting. And contrary to what you may have heard, helping others doesn’t always have to be a selfless act. As I say all this is up in the air, because my long-term health is in doubt. What have you particularly enjoyed about taking part over the last six months? Each is located on campus or nearby, and offers free or reduced-cost services. How do people who get involved want to be known? The latter encompasses three clinic programs. Why does it matter? I just like the kind of social interaction with all the different people you get to meet and then, the main thing is that it’s for a kind of good cause, and you feel like you’re making a difference and that’s the other important thing. The students are supervised by licensed physical therapists, including Widener alumni. — Justin Gilfillan ’19, Delaware County resident Regina Goodrich credits the clinic, and its students, with saving her life by helping her manage chronic dizziness and other issues. And through the grand rounds program, graduate physical therapy, social work, and psychology students meet to discuss cases. More and more professionals are turning to Widener for an array of new and existing graduate programs and flexible certificates under the newly named Center for Graduate and Continuing Studies and the College of Health and Human Services. These clients have few financial resources and often nowhere else to turn. You can also use this normal sharing function to help others become more aware of their problematic attitudes or behaviours. “She is bright, enthusiastic, working hard and is growing in her confidence and understanding of the research we perform,” he says. Anne talked of ‘the knowledge and the feeling that you're going to help somebody somewhere, maybe in the future, but at least you're putting, as a friend tells me, a brick in the wall.’ Yeah, I’ve always wanted to kind of help others and become a doctor, but doing it kind of indirectly through research... it’s a different way of doing it because the stuff is not personal one-to-one helping another person, but it’s still a way of helping others, and helping others probably on a kind of grander scale and helping more people you see. No matter what the motivation, getting out and helping others is the key. At the Chester Community Clinic – one of the first student-run PT pro bono clinics in the country, and a model for others – students like doctoral candidate Justin Gilfillan ’19 help uninsured/underinsured clients recover from physical impairments. Path to involvement – how did people find out about it? There can be many reasons why people get involved in research. Elsewhere. The clinics and centers often work in concert to serve needs, and may refer clients to each other or collaborate on care. College of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Peter T. 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Freund, who was one of 13 applicants chosen from a pool of 200, will work with professor Antonietta Quigg for the project titled “Environmental Impacts: Oil Spills and the Gulf of Mexico.” The position comes with a $5,560 summer stipend, travel expenses, housing and a meal plan. What would you say? Does it have a sort of an emotional cost, the PPI for you? I know how fortunate we are to be able... Widener Student Managed Investment Funds Surpass $1 Million Milestone, Widener Offers New Graduate Programs and Certificates to Prepare Students for Career Growth, Biofeedback Clinic and Certification Center. So I think that kind of outweighs everything. Investment portfolios managed by students and faculty advisers have doubled in the past five years, now exceeding a combined $1 million. “Working in the field and with this population helped me enhance my skills and meet clients where they are,” said Ross. “I find research so fascinating in how someone can discover a topic by deeply analyzing it,” says Freund, “The research not only benefits the researcher’s knowledge base, but the results can also help so many people.”. It builds confidence, aids us through different experiences, and sets us apart from other schools. The clinic, which is staffed by nursing faculty, students, and alumni, as well as community volunteers, treated 130 patients in the first quarter of 2018 alone. This summer, the environmental engineering major will take her passion to the Gulf Coast to research the impact of oil spills as a member of the Ocean and Coastal Research Experiences for Undergraduates program (OCEANUS) at the University of Texas A&M. What have been the kind of highlights of the things you’ve really enjoyed or perhaps you’re naturally good at? Helping others, helping ourselves. The community’s economic health is the focus of Widener’s SBDC. “I wanted to work in a different field than I had before, and the oil spill research looks very interesting,” she says. “You get to see how you can impact a community, that the work you’re doing is really meaningful,” said Ross. So I’ve decided not to study medicine, but originally, yeah, medicine and kind of still having this kind of patient and public kind of backdrop probably. This helps explain how individuals and employers can increase the Research by Dale Miller at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business suggests that this is also the case of adults, however, worrying that others will think they are acting out of … Helping others may just be the secret to living a life that is not only happier but also healthier, wealthier, more productive, and meaningful. So I think yes, that’s helped me a lot. Through OCEANUS, Freund will work along other students, attend field trips and participate in weekly workshops on topics such as scientific research and communication, leadership and professional development. But these findings don’t mean that people always experience pure, unmitigated happiness from helping others: Research shows that the nature of the giving situation matters. Malley says she is very deserving of the research opportunity with OCEANUS. These include the Biofeedback Clinic and Certification Center, Child Therapy Clinic, Community Nursing Clinic, Chester Community Clinic, Neuropsychology Assessment Center (NAC), and Social Work Counseling Services. “They’re helping the community, trying to show their clients how to go from an idea to an actual business. “Connect STEM really helped UNH feel like a home away from home and pushed me to take on new things such as the McNair Scholars Program,” says Freund, who is now a mentor for other students in the program. Through his internship at a Widener-run community social work clinic, graduate student James Ross had the chance to make a real difference. Most of the clinics and centers provide human health assistance. Investing in others can take a seemingly limitless variety of forms, from donating to a charity that helps strangers in a faraway country to buying lunch for a friend. The experience also helped Ross, a 2018 graduate of Widener’s online master of social work program, apply his education and prepare him for his career as a family-based therapist. Reasons for getting involved – personal benefits, Reasons for getting involved – helping others and medical science, Factors which make it easier to get involved, Reasons for staying involved and wider benefits, Representing a range of views and experiences: diversity, Representing a range of views and experiences: being representative, Changing attitudes to involvement over the years, Raising awareness of opportunities for involvement and finding new volunteers, The value and impact of patient and public involvement in research. But, at the same time, I think kind of benefits outweigh any negatives and you’re there to kind of help out and improve research and kind of make less emotional concerns for patients in the future. ... PhD, and Snyder surveyed 61 hospital volunteers about their motivations for volunteering, and then later about their experiences as a volunteer. UNH Today is produced for the UNH community and for friends of UNH. “Students see and learn from each other’s different professional lenses and realize that they can best work together to help meet the multi-faceted challenges.”. That’s inspiring to me.”. It’s important to understand that helping others can actually help yourself.