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Virtual or In-Person Office Hours, by Appointment

We invite you to attend virtual or in-person office hours to ask questions, offer ideas or suggestions, and to schedule additional appointments. Schedule an appointment here.

Program Requests-Student Events Only

URecFit and Wellness offers a variety of health education topics that students can choose from to fit your programming needs. Some examples include:

• Maintaining healthy habits
• The health benefits of sleep
• Mental and emotional health topics
• Stress management
• Growth mindset
• How to identify and use your strengths

Complete this program request form to request a specific program and to learn more about our programs. Please allow at least two weeks’ notice for all programming. *This is a student service. Staff and faculty may attend select programs. 

Health Coaching Sessions for Students

We offer appointments for confidential, personalized health and well-being sessions with a wellness staff member. Individual wellness consultations are designed to help you identify and reach your wellness goals, to guide you towards specific health and well-being resources, and to share successful habit formation and health behavior change information. Complete this form to request an individual wellness consultation.

*This is a student service. 

* Health and Well-Being consultations are not intended for clinical health services. If you are seeking mental health or primary care treatment, you can contact the Student Counseling Center or the Student Health Center.  

Chat with a Peer Health and Wellness Educator

Peer Health and Wellness Educators support fellow UMB students and empower them to make healthy choices. Peer health and wellness educators connect their peers to campus resources and offer health education on a variety of important health and wellbeing topics. Students can also sign up to "chat with a peer educator." These one-on-one chats provide a safe space for students to engage in open dialogue to discuss health and wellness goals and concerns. 

Health and Wellness Challenges

Have you and your fellow students been thinking about a little healthy competition to establish or re-set a healthy habit? Would you like to eliminate a behavior? Please join URecFit and Wellness for a health and wellness challenge. Sign up with us and receive weekly tips and encouragement, connect with other participants asynchronously, and join an in-personfinal event. Prizes will also be raffled off at the end of each challenge.

2025 Asynchronous Health Challenges

Summer Reading Challenge Join URFW and HSHSL this summer 2025 for a Summer Reading Challenge! Research shows that regular reading improves brain connectivity, increases vocabulary and comprehension, prevents cognitive decline, and strengthens empathy. Reading also aids in sleep readiness, stress reduction, lowers blood pressure and heart rate, fights depression symptoms, and contributes to a longer life. Start reading today for better health!

How to Participate Please register here and download a digital tic-tac-toe board to track your summer reading. Read at least two different book genres to be entered to win raffle prizes such as a kindle or URFW swag bag. The program runs July 7 – August 29. Participants will receive one additional raffle entry for each contribution of a leisure book to build the BookWell Library located in the wellness suite on the fifth floor of URecFit and Wellness. Submit your digital tic-tac-toe board here anytime during the challenge, OR you can print your board and submit to the drop box in the wellness suite on the 5th floor in URecFit and Wellness.. 

HSHSL Leisure Reading Collection Joining the summer reading challenge? Check out the HSHSL’s leisure reading collection of recent best-selling fiction and nonfiction on the library’s first floor. Library staff can also help you borrow titles from other University System of Maryland libraries. 

Past Challenges:

Self-care and Sleep Challenge 

Past Challenges:

• Healthy Sleep Challenge
• Spring in Your Step Walking Challenge
• Outdoor Wellness Challenge
• Move More Challenge
• Digital Detox Challenge

Examples of health challenges:

• Steps/Walking Challenge
• Meditation Challenge
• Hydration Challenge
• Nutrition Challenge
• Eliminate alcohol/other vices
• Gratitude Challenge
• Reading Challenge
• Outdoor Challenge
• Sleep Challenge
• Fitness Challenge