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A degree in Exercise and Wellness prepares you to help people move better, live healthier, and improve their overall well-being.

While a physician looks after a single patient, a public health educator looks after entire cities. These professionals work as a connection between clinical data and community wellness. Instead of reacting to illness after it occurs, they specialize in the proactive "upstream" work: preventing disease, advocating for health-conscious policy, and fostering environments where healthy choices are the easiest choices to make.

If you want to work as a future occupational safety and health professional, you’ll need to understand the unseen hazards that can cause long-term illness or sudden injury. While some workplace dangers, like exposed wires or slippery floors, are easy to spot, others are less obvious. There could be harmful chemicals, repetitive strain, or even poor air quality can affect the health of employees.

Limnic systems are inland aquatic environments. They include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs and groundwater. These freshwater environments host thousands of different types of life, from plants and fish to amphibians and microorganisms. Healthy limnic systems are vital to the conservation of aquatic species, maintaining clean water sources, and preserving balance between nature and society.

Here’s a preview of some of the latest research and advances in the exciting field of biomedical science.

To be successful in biomedical science, you need a mix of strong technical abilities, problem-solving skills, and a passion for science.

Cognitive psychology and neuroscience both explore how the mind works, but they look at it from different angles.

Microbes are key to the Earth’s climate system. They can have a massive effect on the planet, but human activities can also influence them, meaning that microbes can be both drivers and mitigators of climate change. When properly utilized, microbes could be the key to reducing global warming and stopping positive feedback loops. Here are the basics of the relationship between microbes and climate change:

Microorganisms are powerful machines that have learned many important traits to survive. Scientists can study microbial traits and engineer them, controlling, modifying, and scaling for human processes. This includes genetically engineering microorganisms to reconstruct their DNA and having them ferment substances like sugars to create new chemicals and food. These are only a few of the ways that microbes can be used to develop new tools, products, and industrial processes:

If you enjoy bread and cheese, you’re already enjoying the products of biotechnology. Something so simple as baked bread and aged cheese came from biotechnology thousands of years ago, all the way back to Ancient Egypt! Bread uses a very small organism, yeast, to make it rise, and cheese is filled with microbes that preserve it for aging or eating.

Every day, scientists discover massive amounts of biological data, but without someone there to interpret the research and apply them to real problems, all of it is useless. You need experts to map out DNA, track diseases, and find patterns in processes and treatments.

It can be easy to look at lab science as just experiments in a lab, far removed from the average person’s everyday life. However, the benefits of lab science are all around us! Although it starts in the lab, it ends by benefiting humanity. By observing and testing scientific theories, researchers can turn abstract ideas into observable phenomena, helping to make advancements in many areas of science. Through lab science researchers can investigate and solve problems, as well as develop new breakthroughs in medicine and technology. Here are three specific fields that benefit from lab science: