News: Wellness

  • TTM Shifts into High Gear For Good Health

    January 1, 2020
    On any given day, you can catch Transportation and Traffic Management bus drivers spending hours driving people around Ohio State’s campus. Earlier this month, a group of drivers took a break from being behind the wheel to focus on their health. Twenty-two people from TTM and some Administration and Planning staff took part in biometric health screenings in the Printing Facility. B...
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  • FOD Group Starving for a Healthy Eating Club

    January 1, 2020
    When lunchtime rolls around on a work day, it’s often easy to drive to the nearest fast food restaurant or even grab something from the vending machine, but employees from Facilities Operations and Development’s Design and Construction (FDC) group are offering a healthy alternative through a new lunch program.It’s called the Healthy Lunch Club, providing a welcome, nutritious variety to...
    Group eating healthy lunch

  • Lucy Loves Lucy

    January 1, 2020
    Lucille Talbert puckers her lips and shakes her head thinking about the way her body appeared in early 2015.“I didn’t like myself. I didn’t like how I looked.”Lucy, as her coworkers call her, works as a first-shift custodian, looking after Derby Hall right off The Oval. Each day when reporting to and from work, Lucy travels past the Baker Systems Engineering Building and Dreese Hall. Both buildin...
    woman looking at her reflection

  • DPS Sounding the Health Alarm

    January 1, 2020
    Living a healthy lifestyle is always on Margaret Bussard’s mind. In the last five years, the Department of Public Safety Administrative Services Manager has lost four siblings to adult-onset Muscular Dystrophy. She says she is lucky to not have the gene sequence, but unfortunately has watched the health of her siblings decline rapidly. “I know that the older I get, the slower ...
    woman sitting at health station

  • PARE Pedaling for a Good Cause

    January 1, 2020
    For Tracy Palmer, Pelotonia hits close to home. Palmer, a Building Information Modeling Coordinator for PARE, is a breast cancer survivor. She was a virtual rider in the past, and when she heard about Planning, Architecture and Real Estate’s (PARE) team, decided to do it again. “I always said this was a group (cancer survivor) that I never wanted to belong to, but now that I’m in i...
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