NOTE: The School of Social Work is now part of CAHS. View Social Work funding opportunities here.
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
- The Dr. Colin R & Margaret E. Macpherson Scholarship Fund
Provides scholarship assistance to qualified students enrolled in Clinical Lab Sciences in the Department of Analytical and Diagnostic Sciences
- 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
- Health Information Management Scholarship Fund
Supports student scholarships in the Health Information Management program
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)