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Patty Freedson gives Safrit lecture
Heart Association awards research grant toreceives Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine
Jane Kent-Braun gives ACSM President's lecture
Brian Umberger visits the Brije Universiteit in Amsterdam
Joe Hamill keynotes conference in Brazil
Graduate Student Kirsten Granados is awarded travel award to national meeting
Doctoral students Rob Hyldahl and Sarah Kozey awarded ACSM grants
Ryan Larsen, a doctoral student in Kinesiology, was awarded a 2009-2010 graduate fellowship by the graduate school.
Graduate students receive NEACSM awards
Kinesiology studies question value of post-exercise nutritional strategies
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Kinesiology graduate students receive APS travel awards
Kinesiology's undergraduate team finishes second at NEACSM college bowl.
Department featured in recent press reports
The Department of Kinesiology has been featured in a recent issue of BioMechanics.
Brian Umberger presents invited paper
Brian Umberger recently presented an invited talk at the 2008 Society for Experimental Biology conference.
Sofiya Alhassan receives NIH grant
Sofiya Alhassan has received an NIH grant to study physical activity in children and adolescents.
Sofiya Alhassan initiates childhood obesity study
Sofiya Alhassan, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, has begun a project aimed at reducing childhood obesity.
Patty Freedson to receive citation award
Patty Freedson will receive a citation award from the American College of Sports Medicine at the 2009 annual conference in Seattle, Washington. The award recognizes her significant accomplishments in sports medicine and exercise science.
Joe Hamill receives distinguished research professorship
Joe Hamill visited the Republic Polytechnic of Singapore in January and was appointed as a Distinguished Research Professor at the Republic Polytechnic of Singapore. He is working with them to set up a research program on lower extremity injuries.
Patty Freedson receives $2.1 milliion NIH grant
Prof. Freedson has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and implement a device that will be used to obtain long-term measures of free-living physical activity.
Joe Hamill honored by University of Edinburgh
Prof. Joe Hamill has been named an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Also, at the recent biennial conference of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) held in Taiwan, he was re-elected to the Executive Board. One of the world's experts on lower limb biomechanics, Prof. Hamill also organized a symposium on Lower Extremity Injuries and presented a paper entitled, "Lower Extremity Joint Stiffness in Runners with Low Back Pain". Two of his students, Ryan Chang and Joe Seay, also presented papers at the conference.
Richard Van Emmerik receives multiple sclerosis grant
Prof. Richard van Emmerik has received a grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to study dynamic balance control in patients with multiple sclerosis.
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