News & Events
Healing Spaces: Designing Physical Environments to Optimize Health, Wellbeing, and Performance
IPWP leadership are featured in a special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health dedicated to place and wellbeing. It includes eight articles that address the latest findings and exploring exciting directions for the future of research in this field.
Standing, Stretching and Soaking Up Sun: Healthy Office Habits Make a Major Difference
Dr. Esther Sternberg, director of research at the Center for Integrative Medicine and the UA's resident expert on workplace well-being, offers advice for staying healthy at the office – like standing, stretching and getting outside. "Add up every single day of your working life and these small, incremental improvements on a daily basis truly add up to a much happier, healthier life," she says. "You can even begin to think of your office as your new gym."
BMJ OEM paper on workplace design impacts on activity and stress
Office environments have been causally linked to workplace-related illnesses and stress, yet little is known about how office workstation type is linked to objective metrics of physical activity and stress. We aimed to explore these associations among office workers in US federal office buildings.
UAIPW team part of IARPA MOSAIC program in partnership with Lockheed Martin
The MOSAIC program seeks to to use unobtrusive and passive sensing to predict an individual's work performance via wearable and environmental sensors.
MOSAIC aims to advance the Intelligence Community's multimodal sensing capabilities to evaluate and assess job performance of individuals throughout their career as well as shorten the time and effort typically required to process and integrate this information.
University of Arizona professor/engineer focuses on architecture's impact on humans
Altaf Engineer is a new University of Arizona assistant professor in — you guessed it — architecture.
UA Architect Aims to Build a Better World
Architect and assistant professor Altaf Engineer is on a mission to help people through innovative architecture and design.
Expert on Science of Place and Wellbeing Named Chair of National Library of Medicine Board of Regents
Esther Sternberg, MD, director of research at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, founding director of the UA Institute on Place and Wellbeing, and professor of medicine at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, has been named chair of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Board of Regents.
Optimizing Workplace Design for Health: UA Institute on Place and Wellbeing at 'Greenbuild,' Nov. 9 in Boston
The health of millions of office workers—and the cost of lost time due to workplace-related illnesses—may be positively impacted by research that will be presented by the University of Arizona Institute on Place and Wellbeing and the U.S. General Services Administration at the 2017 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the world's largest conference and expo for design-related industry professionals.