University of Massachusetts Amherst

School of Public Health and Health Sciences

Research Day
March 26, 2009

 

  Guest Speaker David Ropeik and
  C. Marjorie Aelion, Dean of the School of   Public Health and Health Sciences

 

 

 

 

From left to right:
Dr. Lisa Wexler, Dr. Elaine Puleo, and
Dr. Elena Carbone.

 

 

 

 

 

  Patty Freedson with Kinesiology students   participating in Research Day 2009.

 

 

 

Student explains her research to Risa Silverman

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Students discuss their research.

 

 

 

 

Amy Cronin DiCaprio explains her research "Yeah!Network (Youth Empowerment and Adolescent Health), a Community Coalition Response to Teen Pregnancy in Hampden County"

 

 

  Tashuna Goldsby from Kinesiology explains   her research on "Validation of an   Accelerometer Estimate of Activity Energy   Expenditure"

 

 

 

 

Kate Lyden from Kinesiology explains her research to Jeffer Eidi Sasaki on "A Comprehensive Evoluation of Accelerometer Energy Expenditure and MET Prediction Equations"

 

 

 

  Speaker David P Ropeik B.S.J., M.S.J.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

  From Left to Right:

  Dean C. Marjorie Aelion with Kevin O'Fallon and   Margaret McCarthy, President of the RHO Chapter,   Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society

 

 

 

Research Day winners with Dean Aelion from left to right: Kevin O'Fallon, Rob Hydahl, Cheryl Howe, Dean Aelion, Valerie Hastings, Molly Breitbart, Patricia Chocano-Bedoya, and Brooke Hasson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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