After many years as the HAPS Business Manager, Shanan Atkinson has decided to accept a new position and will be leaving her current role. HAPS uses Association Services Group (ASG) for the business office tasks like accounting, contracts, and organizing…
As our thoughts and efforts focus on the ending of Fall semester, planning for the busy holiday season and the beginning of a new semester in Spring, I want to ask you all to consider adding one more thing to…
Were it not for the vision and tenacity of Robert (Bob) Anthony, there might never have been the organization so many of us have come to love so much, the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS). Bob, now retired, was a longtime A&P…
Until his sudden passing in 2010, Sam Drogo spent his entire 36 year career teaching human anatomy and physiology at Mohawk Valley Community College in upstate New York. He was then and remains to this day honored and respected by the many students…
In Fall 2014 the phone rang and it was Mike Roseman from Thieme, a publisher of textbooks. Mike is the Director of Sales for North America. Thieme had always had good experiences with HAPS and is a regular exhibitor at…
After last week’s post by HAPS Executive Director, Peter English, most of us are ready to make travel arrangements to Atlanta! So it seems like a good time to talk about how HAPS can help you get there. Because if…
HAPS is at a really exciting crossroads when it comes to Annual Conferences. Each year we are growing, and we want to be sure to continue to be as inclusive as possible as we increase our capacity. So for the next…
In the last installment of our evolutionary anatomy series, we talked about vestigial structures, those hold-overs from our evolutionary ancestry. This time we’re going to talk about some specific adaptations of the human body, and how often seemingly unrelated aspects…
The HAPS video was released this week and it is a great snapshot of all that HAPS can do for its members. Using interviews of HAPS members to provide the narrative, the video showcases the ways in which people’s lives…
My name is Erin O’Loughlin, and despite the fact that I am not a HAPS member, I have been attending its conferences since I was three years old. As the daughter of a former HAPS president, I have been granted…