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University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Kinesiology

 

Department of Kinesiology

Graduate Seminar

Fall 2009

 

Mondays 1:25-2:15 pm, Totman 153

refreshments at 1:10 pm

   

Sept. 14

Elizabeth Russell, M.S. Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst, Coordination Dynamics and Musculoskeletal Response of Wedged Footwear

Sept. 21

Steve Foulis, M.S. Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst, Relationships among Physical Activity, Old Age, and Muscle Size

Sept. 28

Kevin Heffernan, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Research Fellow Tufts Medical Center, Dept of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, The Vascular and Autonomic Response to Resistance Exercise

Host: Erin Snook

Oct. 5

Sofiya Alhassan, Ph.D. and Barry Braun, Ph.D.  Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst, Assessing Diversity in the Curriculum

Oct. 13 (TUE)

Jeffer Sasaki, M.S. Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst, Association of Physical Fitness, Lipid Profile and Adiposity with C-Reactive Protein Levels in Postmenopausal Women

Oct. 19

Shi Zhou, Ph.D. School of Health and Human Sciences Southern Cross University – Lismore, Australia, Bilateral Effects of Unilateral Electric Stimulation on Muscles

Host: Gary Kamen

Oct. 26

Joseph Hamill, Ph.D. Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst, Footfall Patterns During Running.

Nov. 2

Kate Lyden, M.S. Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst.

Nov. 9

Ling Xin, M.S. Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst, The effect of an Antioxidant Supplement on Gene Expression in Response to Exercise Stress
 

Nov. 16

Douglas Casa, Ph.D., ATC, FACSM, FNATA, Director, Athletic Training Education, Department of Kinesiology, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, Exertional Heat Stroke - Accident or Crime? How a Court Case Can Change High School Football
Host: Brian Umberger 

Nov. 23

Jeffrey Widrick, Ph.D., Deptartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Host: Jane Kent-Braun 

Nov. 30

Chris Palmer, M.S. Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst, Consequences of Combat Load on Landing Kinematics 

Dec. 7

Kevin O’Fallon, M.S. Kinesiology Department, UMass-Amherst, Redox-sensitive Pathways that Regulate Skeletal Muscle Adaptation 

Contact:  Richard Van Emmerik, rvanemmerik@kin.umass.edu
545-0325

http://www.umass.edu/sphhs/kinesiology/