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 Aubrey Rife, a student in Health Sciences at UTTyler, is learning about Guatemalan children’s health and sickness perspectives through
her qualitative study. Her research children are in 2nd and 3rd grade, and they drew
pictures on paper depicting sickness and health, then they tried to explain the pictures.
Aubrey has completed her Bachelors of Science in Health Sciences at UT Tyler and is
nearly ready to graduate in the same field with her graduate degree.
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 Conner Benson, a Kinesiology major at UT Tyler, has done research on Cancer Cachexia to find the
relationship between mitochondrial dysfunction and muscle wasting in mice. His results
show that mitochondrial dysfunction may lead to cachexic phenotype in LLC mice. He
presented his research as a Student Poster Presenter at Texas ACSM, 2016-2017, and
at the UT Tyler Liceum. Conner’s future goals are to extend his knowledge in this
field by completing a Ph.D.
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 Jeffrey Banga, a former student at UT Tyler- having just graduated in December 2017 with a Masters
in Health Sciences, worked on the prevalence of intestinal parasites in northeast
Texas children. Jeffrey also has experience as a logistics and data manager. In addition,
Jeffrey worked as an Emergency Medical Technician at Champion EMS, Longview. He is
going into a Physician Assistant program in Florida.
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 Ashley Boston, pursuing a Masters in Kinesiology at UT Tyler, is doing interesting research on
muscle atrophy and decreased brain profusion in patients with mild cognitive impairment.
It is an observational study that is exploring the relationship between physiological variables
from an inactive lifestyle and the onset of mild cognitive impairment. Ashley plans
to teach for a few years and eventually gain a Ph.D. in Kinesiology.
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