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 Development Award (similar to the NIH K99 award). Currently, Jake holds a dual appointment with the New Jersey War Related …
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, titled, “Sex-specific factors regulating pressure and flow.” Barnes is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology. She heads …
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 years or more and 25% have been around for more than 20 years and we definitely think that is something …
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 and the work he puts into their research and career development. He will be recognized during the Postdoc Post-Holiday Celebration on …
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 to be a great year for the Department!
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 levels, in virtually every team sport, are getting swept up by a youth-sports economy that increasingly resembles the pros at …
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 A. Weiss Research Endowment Grant has been established for ACSM student members wishing to advance research into the health benefits …
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 Units to Older Adults in Underserved Communities.” Koltyn is a professor of exercise psychology with the School of Education’s Department …
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 laboratory of an established scientist and APS member, with the UGREF program recruiting undergraduate students worldwide. Carl conducts research with …
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 Graduate Students were honored by the ACSM for their scientific abstracts/posters! Congratulations! Adam T. Corkery Abstract Title: Cerebral Pulsatility and …