The University of Cincinnati’s College of Allied Health Sciences (CAHS) educates and prepares those entering rehabilitation and health care professions.
Graduates of the CAHS provide high-quality service in their fields while gaining new knowledge, keeping them on the cutting edge of the health science industries.
Departments at the CAHS include Analytical & Diagnostics (Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Advanced Medical Imaging Technology, and Transfusion and Transplantation Sciences); Communication Sciences & Disorders (Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology, and Animal Audiology); Health Information Management; Nutrition Sciences,; Rehabilitation Sciences (Physical Therapy and Stroke Rehabilitation at Drake), School of Social Work which includes Health Administration.
CAHS Challenges and Funding Opportunities
- Scholarship support --Critical in attracting and retaining quality students.
- Discretionary Funds – Help Department Heads and Dean support student travel and activities; and purchases of clinical learning equipment
- Annual Funds – are unrestricted funds that are used to support faculty, students, and programs where the need is greatest.
Supported scholarships and funds include:
(click on fund name to donate online)
College of Allied Health Sciences – at the Dean’s Level
- Dean’s Discretionary Fund Allows Dean to support faculty, students and programs where the need is greatest
- College of Allied Health Sciences Annual Fund
Departmental Funds
Analytical & Diagnostic
- Colin Macpherson Laboratory Endowment Fund
Contribute to the fund naming the CLS teaching laboratory in honor of the program’s long time medical advisor
- Analytical & Diagnostic Sciences Fund
Supports education of advanced medical imaging technologists and clinical laboratory scientists
CSD
- Robert W. Keith, PhD Audiology Research Endowment Fund
Supports research in audiology that will advance understanding of the auditory system and its function, including student research and assistantship
- Kenneth Donnelly Fund
Supports clinical services in audiology
- Southwestern Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association Scholarship Fund
For a first year graduate student in speech-language pathology or audiology
- Communication Sciences and Disorders Fund
Supports education of speech-language pathologists, audiologists and speech, language, hearing scientists
Health Information Management
- TBA
Nutrition Sciences
- Nutrition Discretionary Fund
Funding and donations will be used for student scholarships, support of pilot research projects by faculty and students, and support in teaching
- Nutrition Scholarship Fund
- Alzheimer Fund
Supports communication research and service to individuals with Alzheimer
Rehabilitation Sciences
- Pacholder Scholarship Fund
Established by Sylvia Pacholder and her husband to serve as a source of emergency scholarships for students in the PT and PTA programs
- Rehabilitation Sciences Scholarship Fund – supports student scholarships
- Rehabilitation Sciences Discretionary Fund
Funds used to purchase equipment for use in the teaching labs to enhance student learning
- Gait Lab Research Fund
Established to raise money for equipping and maintaining the Gait and Movement Analysis Laboratory
School of Social Work and Health Administration
- School of Social Work Annual Fund – allows the Department Head to allocate resources where the need is greatest
- Joe Hall Scholarship Fund – scholarship awarded to Master’s candidate and preference given to minority students
- Physicians Leadership Program (PLP)