About the school
The School of Kinesiology offers undergraduate, graduate, and certificate
programs in both discipline-based and professional areas within the broad
study of physical activity, recreation, sport and human performance. Faculty
conduct research across a wide range of topics, including:
- metabolic syndrome and obesity
- bone health in children and adolescents
- posture stability and motion sickness in virtual
environments
- motor learning after brain injury
- exercise, health and disease
- sport management ethics and policy
- sport consumer psychology
- design, implementation and evaluation of wilderness and
adventure therapy programs for special-needs youth
- human-nature relationships
- protected area and land management issues
The school is home to an internationally recognized program in
exercise science and health enhancement in the
Laboratory of Physiological Health and Exercise Science (LPHES)
and also to the
Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in
Sport, the only center in the world dedicated specifically to
issues related to girls and women in sport and physical activity and
made possible by an endowment from Dr. Dorothy Tucker.
The School of Kinesiology was one of 32 institutions whose doctoral
program was ranked by the American Academy of Kinesiology and
Physical Education (AAKPE) in 2005. Variables assessed included:
- Professional accomplishments of the faculty including rank,
refereed publications, number of Fellows in AAKPE, and
professional organization membership and service;
- Caliber and quantity of graduate students based on GRE
scores; number of applicants and number accepted and enrolled;
student financial support and training; and the number of
graduates pursuing post-doctoral training and full-time
employment in professional positions in the field upon
graduation.
Based on a scoring system weighing these faculty and student
indices, the School of Kinesiology ranked 11th among the 32
programs. The School’s program was ranked fourth among nine of the
Big 10 universities participating in the survey, ahead of Big 10
programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of
Michigan, and Michigan State University.
Productivity
Report - 2000 - 2003 [.pdf]
Productivity
Report - 1996 - 1999 [.pdf]
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