Dr. Jacob (Jake) Lindheimer, a third-year Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dr. Dane Cook’s exercise psychology laboratory, has been selected by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Research and Development to receive a 5-year Career …
Spotlight on Kinesiology
Dr. Barnes to speak at Healthy Hearts for Women Symposium
January 31, 2018 UW-Madison’s Jill Barnes will be delivering a presentation at the fourth annual Healthy Hearts for Women Symposium hosted by the University of Kentucky Medical Center.Barnes will be giving a talk on Friday, Feb. 2, …
Department Celebrates Years of Service
On January 18, 2018, the Kinesiology celebrated the years of service of the faculty and staff during the 2018 Commemorate luncheon! 50% of our faculty and staff have been working for the department for 10 …
Dr. Dane Cook Selected to Receive UWPA Postdoc Mentoring Award
Dr. Dane Cook of the Kinesiology Department was nominated by is postdoc students to be one of the recipients of the 2018 UWPA Postdoc Mentoring Award! He will be recognized for is excellence in mentorship …
Undergraduate Welcome Back Party Huge Success!
On Friday 9/15, the Kinesiology Department hosted our annual Undergraduate Student Welcome Back Pizza Party! So many students came down to meet and chat with each other and our awesome faculty members! This is going …
Time magazine cover story notes UW-Madison research on injury risks associated with sports specialization
August 31, 2017 The cover story for the Sept. 4, 2017, print edition of Time magazine is headlined, “How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry.” The article explains: “Across the nation, kids of all skill …
Kevin Crombie receives Research Grant
Kevin Crombie, a dissertator in Dr. Kelli Koltyn’s Exercise Psychology Lab, was recently selected to receive the Dr. Raymond A. Weiss Research Endowment Grant from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The Dr. Raymond …
UW’s Koltyn receives NIH support for study examining ‘Stand Up and Move More’
UW-Madison’s Kelli Koltyn is leading a team of researchers that recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study titled “Translating a ‘Stand Up and Move More’ Intervention by State Aging …
Alexandra Carl named Undergraduate Research Excellence Fellow by American Physiological Society
UW-Madison’s Alexandra Carl is one of six students from across the country to be named a 2017 Undergraduate Research Excellence Fellow (UGREF) by the American Physiological Society (APS). Fellowship recipients spend the summer in the …
Congratulations ACSM Honorees
Many of our Kinesiology Faculty, Staff and Students attended the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Denver May 30-June 3 to promote and share the wonderful research being done here in Madison. 3 …