Wellness News and Announcements

The Blazing Race 2!

Blazing Race

Join your fellow Mavericks in "The Blazing Race 2"! An hour-long event of wellness and Maverick spirit in which individuals or teams, "race" around the campus in competition with other Mavericks. The race, which begins at the Maverick Activities Center, will include stops at 7 destinations. Two versions of the path this year (Low Impact and High Impact) will focus on 8 types of Wellness: Mental, Social, Emotional, Physical, Intellectual, Occupational, Financial and Meditation/Englightenment. Participants will begin with a puzzle piece and a clue to lead them to the next destination. Each person or team who successfully completes the adventure course and arrives at the final destination with a completed puzzle will be entered into a silent drawing for a prize. This year's Blazing Race promises to be bigger and better than ever!

And the winners are...

High Impact Trail
1st Place: HD Gang
2nd Place: COEHP Advising
3rd Place: Ebony and Ivory

Low Impact Trail:
Tie for 1st Place: UAC and Team US
3rd Place: 3 Amigas

A total of 24 teams participated in the Blazing Race 2 and the total number of participants was 92!

Registration Steps

Send an email to wellness@uta.edu with the name of your team members, the name of your team, and Low Impact or High Impact path preference.
Start times from the MAC are at either 11:00am or 12:00pm on Wednesday, May 18, 2011.
Submit Release and Indemnification Agreement.
Join your colleagues in a fun walk/run, enjoy the outdoors, visit new locations and show your Maverick Pride.
Water to be donated by Pepsi.

UT Arlington to go tobacco-free in 2011

Starting August 1, 2011, The University of Texas at Arlington will be a tobacco-free campus.

In order to provide students, faculty, staff, and visitors with a healthy, welcoming learning environment, the University will begin prohibiting the use of all tobacco products—including cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco—on campus property at all times. Violators will be subject to penalties detailed in the tobacco-free policy.

UT Arlington is committed to providing students, faculty, and staff who wish to stop using tobacco products with the resources they need to transition to the new campus policy. For more information on available tobacco cessation programs, visit the Ready to Quit? page.

For additional resources and free private coaching to assist in kicking the habit, please visit UCanQuit2.org!

Tobacco-Free 2011

The Wellness Guide to Preventive Care

A recent government study showed that more than half of all Americans do not receive many of the important preventive services they need—that is, immunizations, screening tests for early detection of disease, and education about healthy habits and injury prevention. Why not? Read more about this topic and what Wellness Preventive Health Services you should consider .

National Wellness Institute’s 2011 Health & Wellness Observances Calendar

Living Well, Wellness Resources Consolidation
In an effort to consolidate UT System Wellness Resources under the Living Well: Make it a Priority website, as of August, 31, 2010, UT SELECT members will no longer have access to the Personal Health Manager online health and wellness tool within Blue Access® for Members. This includes access to the Blue Points rewards program.

Featured Resources

Building Financial Wellness

A recent poll by Workplace Options found that 48% of employees say financial stress is affecting their work performance.

UT Arlington is committed to lifelong learning and to the health of its campus community. To assist you in developing a basis of financial wellness, the UT Arlington Wellness Committee along with the Office of Human Resources have developed a financial wellness program aimed to break down the barriers to improved financial health by providing employees with all of the resources they need to solve their entire financial puzzle. This program includes web-based education, live seminars and one-on-one financial coaching to accommodate varied financial issues, learning styles and levels of employee commitment. Read More.

Where Should I Go For Treatment: Doctor’s Office, Retail Clinic, Urgent Care Center, or Emergency Room?

It may be challenging to decide where to find medical treatment when you are ill or injured and think you may need to be seen immediately. Even illnesses or injuries that may seem minor may be determined by the urgent care physician to warrant emergency evaluation and result in a recommendation that you be transferred to the hospital’s emergency room for further treatment. Read More.