University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: March 2018

Bassett to deliver annual Safrit Lecture on ‘The Science of Step Counting’

UW-Madison’s Department of Kinesiology is hosting its annual Safrit Lecture on Thursday, April 12, and this year’s presentation will be delivered by the University of Tennessee’s David Bassett, Jr. Bassett, a professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport Studies, will be examining “The Science of Step Counting” in his talk, which …

Kevin Crombie Receives Fellowship from National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Kevin Crombie, a dissertator in Dr. Kelli Koltyn’s Exercise Psychology Lab, was recently selected to receive a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH/NIH) for a project titled “The influence of exercise in reducing anxiety and fear responses via the endocannabinoid system in …