Washington University’s Center for Obesity Policy & Prevention Research new database is officially up and running.  With funding from the Missouri Foundation for Health, COPPR tapped Matchbox to design and build a database to help “explore and identify the existing policies on healthy eating and physical activity in Missouri.”

It’s a bit of a mouthful we know.  But what this really means is COPPR has made their internal Missouri health policy reviews available to the public.  Better yet it looks pretty cool thanks to the integration of Microsoft’s ASP.NET Charting components.   Ever wonder what kind or how many health policies exist in your community?  Why don’t you check out the COPPR Database now?

Student-Athlete Advantage

On 9-9-09 Student-Athlete Advantage opened its doors to new members.  Rick Dodd and Martin Thompson came to us with the desire to create a website dedicated to offering personal advisory and life coaching services focused on guiding elite student-athletes toward their academic, athletic & life goals.  Currently serving elite student-athlete hockey players, SAA draws on Rick and Martin’s extensive backgrounds in academics and athletics.  To help make their dream a reality Matchbox created a Joomla CMS driven website with a custom player profile component.

There is no greater compliment than when a fellow designer features your work.

We’ve been busy rebranding as part of our third anniversary and its nice to see that work paying off. Graham Smith of imjustcreative featured our new design on his August 14^th Logo Design RoundUp blog. We know, maybe we should have seen this sooner but we did say we’ve been busy didn’t we? Expect to see our new website rolled out very soon, we can hardly contain our excitement.

MDG recently launched The Center for Obesity Prevention & Policy Research website, COPPR for short. COPPR is a joint effort between Wash U’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis whose mission is to develop and spread the word about obesity research and policy. To compliment the site we’re developing a policy database to make all of COPPR’s hard work accessible, more on that later!

Check it out at http://coppr.wustl.edu/

The Energizer Bunny has recharged its commitment to the Komen 3 Day Races with an update to his Facebook page. MDG re-launched the Komen tab this week with a new look and greater usability. Check back each week for photo updates as the hare races across America. Hop on to Facebook and check it out at www.facebook.com/energizerbunny!