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  • July Fitness Tips

    How to enjoy some of your favorite summer activities and burn 300 calories having fun!

  • Juneteenth: A celebration of one of America’s greatest triumphs

    Signed into law as a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth, sometimes referred to as Emancipation Day, has a long tradition as a cultural holiday amongst black Americans. The holiday officially commemorates the occasion of the last American slaves being set free in 1865 in Texas, following the Civil

  • A Note from Your Chaplain - June 2022 UTA

    Welcome to June UTA,Last month as I visited our units, I asked the question, “What keeps you going during the challenges of life?”The answers included: spending time with nature, lifting weights, working out, talking it through with friends, playing video games, choking people out in jujitsu, taking

  • May is Mental Health Awareness Month

    May is Mental Health Awareness Month and a great time of year to bring awareness to mental health issues and available resources. Mental health affects all of us. It has a big influence on our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Creating a culture where seeking help is brave will reduce stigma and

  • Mental health awareness and my story

    Today the importance of mental health and treatment for mental illness is taken more seriously. Mental illness, like any physical injury, can be healed. Sometimes it can heal on its own like a cut or a bruise, but oftentimes, because of its severity, it takes medical intervention to treat it, like a

  • Staying cyber safe over Memorial Day weekend

    Officially, Memorial Day in the United States is the day we set aside to remember and honor those members of the Armed Forces who have fallen in battle defending our liberty. Unofficially, though, many people see this weekend as the start of the summer travel season, and will be hitting the beach to

  • Democratizing innovation: Cadet says Air Force Academy research is for all

    U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – My research journey highlights the U.S. Air Force Academy’s best quality: an ability to democratize innovative research.I am the daughter of an enlisted Airman, parents who did not attend college and who immigrated to the U.S. By age 12, thanks to my dad, I mastered

  • Duke Kahanamoku - Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage

    This May is Asian American and Pacific Islander cultural heritage month, chosen to commemorate the first Japanese immigrants to arrive on May 7, 1843, as well as the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, where Chinese immigrants made up the vast majority of the workforce who