| June 2008 |
Thomas Smith, Kinesiology research associate, has been invited to
present a paper to the First World Conference on E-Learning, in Las Vegas, Nov
17-21, 2008. His paper is titled “Benchmarking Social Cooperation in Web-Based
versus Face-to-Face Learning Environments.” In addition, Smith has been
appointed Chair of the Professional Standards and Education (PSE) Standing
Committee of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), a committee that
accredits ergonomist certifying bodies and provides certification guidelines to
graduate-level ergonomics/human factors (E/HF) education programs worldwide.
Dr. Stacy Ingraham, Kinesiology lecturer, is quoted in an online
article in the June 30 U.S. News & World Report. Read about the benefits
of interval training and
Dr. Ingraham's comments about warming up
and stretching before workout.
Carol Nielsen, executive secretary in Kinesiology, appeared on KSTP's
Twin Cities Live on June 10 to talk about her experiences as an Explore
Minnesota celebrity for the Mainstreets Minnesota promotion. See Carol's
interview at the Twin Cities Live home page, June 10 link:
http://www.twincitieslive.com/
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| May 2008 |
The University and the School of Kinesiology are well-represented in the most
recent issue of the Journal of Sport Management (2008, May) with two
articles. "Toward a Grounded Theory of Student-Athlete Suffering and Dealing
With Academic Corruption" is authored by kinesiology professor Lisa A. Kihl
and her graduate students Tim Richardson and Charles Campisi;
the second article, "An Empirical Assessment of Spectator-Based Brand Equity,"
is authored by kinesiology professors Stephen D. Ross and Keith C.
Russell, along with former Ph.D. student Hyejin Jina Bang.
Rich Weinberg, Distinguished University Teaching Professor of child
psychology in the Institute of Child Development and Director, Center for Early
Education and Development, and Mary Jo Kane, Professor and Chair, School
of Kinesiology, and Director, Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in
Sport, will be on the "Good Enough Moms" (GEMS) radio show on FM 107, Sunday,
June 1. The radio show will feature Weinberg and Kane talking about children's
involvement in sport. A story on GEMS, a show that explores the many facets of
motherhood in today's world, can be found in
UMN News.
Dr. Carol Leitschuh, School of Kinesiology research associate and
lecturer in adapted physical education, has received a coveted Fulbright Award
for 2009. She will be teaching and conducting research in the Czech Republic
during the next academic year. Dr. Leitschuh was informed by the Fulbright
office that hers is the first Fulbright ever awarded to a kinesiology
academic in the United States. Congratulations, Dr. Leitschuh!
Mary Jo Kane, professor and chair, School of Kinesiology, and director,
Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, is quoted as an expert in
women's sports in the Sunday, May 11, New York Times 10-page article, "The
Uneven Playing Field" by Michael Sokolove.
In 2007-08, six undergraduate research assistants have received awards from
the University of Minnesota to support their research in the School of
Kinesiology's Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). These competitive
awards, from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), have been
made to Elizabeth deSanto, Mallory Dzubay, Kyle Elm, Zoe Fung, Christie
Pelzer, and Alison Smith. Please join us in congratulating the APAL
and these exceptional undergrads!
Chris Reiff from the School of Kinesiology's Laboratory of Integrative
Human Physiology (LIHP) has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Program (UROP) grant to support his research project entitled "Differences in
Caloric Expenditure in Standing versus Sitting Desks."
Frank Moe, Ph.D. student and Minnesota state legislator from Bemidji,
has been awarded a 2008 Bush Leadership Fellowship. Frank is pursuing his Ph.D.
in Education-Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies and is advised by Keith
Russell.
Ph.D. candidates Drew Bailey (Ed-RPLS) and Jung Hyun (Kenny) Kim
(Kin) have been awarded prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for
2008-09 from the Graduate School. These highly competitive all-University
fellowships are designed to support outstanding Ph.D. candidates in devoting
full time to their dissertation writing and research. Advisers are Keith Russell
(Drew) and Arthur Leon and Victor Koscheyev (Kenny).
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| April 2008 |
Nicole LaVoi, associate director of The Tucker Center, was interviewed
on WCCO-TV about the
Parents and Coaches
Together (PACT) sport education program she helped develop for the Minnesota
Youth Soccer Association, as well as the
Minnesota PLAYS (Parents Learning About Youth Sports) program.
See the story and video here.
The Tucker Center has been recognized by the General Mills Foundation
and Community Action program's Communities of Colors Grantees as serving a
pivotal role in providing in-kind support in the arts, education, health, and
social services. The Tucker Center will participate with a group of other
recipients to discuss opportunities, challenges, and support available to
deliver more effective programming to metro communities of color.
The Applied Research Collaborative on Youth Development is pleased to invite
you to attend an Inquiry to Impact presentation: "Physical Activity as a Context
for Youth Development" on May 13, 2008, at the McNamara Alumni Center. This free
event features a panel of researchers from the Tucker Center for Research on
Girls and Women in Sport discussing how physical activity across a variety of
settings and contexts contributes to the developmental process of youth in
important ways. Dr. Nicole LaVoi, research associate and lecturer in the
School of Kinesiology and Tucker Center associate director, and Dr. Diane
Wiese-Bjornstal, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Tucker
Center affiliated scholar, will discuss findings from the newly updated version
of the groundbreaking 1997 President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
Report, "Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Girls." Dr. Maureen
Weiss, professor in the School of Kinesiology and Tucker Center co-director,
will discuss highlights of her research with The First Tee project, an
innovative program using golf as a positive developmental context focusing on
teaching young participants life skills that can be transferred to multiple
domains, such as school, home, out of school activities, etc. Please visit
http://www.inquirytoimpact.org/ to learn more and to register for this
event.
On Sunday, April 27th at 10:00 p.m. Tucker Center Associate Director
Nicole LaVoi will be featured on WCCO TV
talking about the Parents And Coaches Together (PACT) sport education program
she helped co-develop for the
Minnesota Youth Soccer
Association.
Jens Omli, Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate (adviser Diane Wiese-Bjornstal),
has been offered a 2-year NIMH traineeship at the Institute of Child
Development. He will be working with Professors Dante Cicchetti and Nicki Crick
to acquire new research skills, including measurement of HPA-axis functioning,
which will allow him to investigate the influence of angry parent behavior on
emotional outcomes in youth sport participants. Congratulations, Jens!
The Tucker Center has been receiving many media hits starting April 14
with the official release of The 2007 Tucker Center Research Report, "Developing
Physically Active Girls: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions." The report,
a 10-year update of the ground-breaking 1997 President’s Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports Report, is written by scholars in fields of study ranging
from exercise physiology to sport psychology, to share the latest research
findings about how involvement in sport and physical activity enables girls to
reach their full potential. The report and its authors (including the Tucker
Center's associate director Nicole LaVoi and affiliated scholar Diane Wiese-Bjornstal,
associate professor in kinesiology) are featured in a variety of news venues,
including those mentioned below.
Read the report here.
Kristen Pickett and Kuan-yi Li, Ph.D. candidates in
Kinesiology, and their adviser, Juergen Konczak, won a Cognitive Science Spring
Research Poster Prize at the Center of Cognitive Science's Research Day held
April 3 at the Metrodome Holiday Inn. The title of their poster is "A New Method
for the Measurement of Passive Limb Motion Sensitivity."
Beth Lewis, assistant professor in Kinesiology, presented at and
chaired the symposium entitled "Innovative methods for examining mediators in
randomized controlled intervention trials" at the 29th Annual Meeting of the
Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, CA, in March, 2008.
Michael G. Wade, professor, School of
Kinesiology, will join an interdisciplinary conversation titled "Time and
Embodied Cognition" along with scholars Ursina Teuscher (Cognitive Science,
University of California, San Diego), Even Selinger (Philosophy, Rochester
Institute of Technology), Wade Savage (Philosophy, University of Minnesota), and
moderator Arun Saldanha (Geography, University of Minnesota). While cognitive
science dominated by a Cartesian world view makes strict distinctions among
mental processes, the body, and the environment, this view has been challenged
in fields ranging from psychology to ecology to computer science, giving rise to
the rubric of "embodied cognition." The panel is an interdisciplinary research
project funded by the University of Minnesota's Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and the
Office of the Vice President for Research as part of the University Symposium on
Time. The free conversation is part of
IAS's "Symposium on Time" and will take place on Friday, April 25,
in room 125 Nolte Library.
Joe Warpeha, kinesiology Ph.D.
candidate (Moira Petit, adviser), has been quoted in the March 2008 issue of
Men’s Health and the April 2008 issue of Vogue on
exercise and special training methods. Joe just completed a two-year term as a
columnist for the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s
Performance Training Journal, having published over 20 articles in the
journal since 2004. Joe will be presenting at the Northland chapter meeting of
the American College of Sports Medicine, the Midwest regional meeting of the
National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the annual meeting of the
American Society of Exercise Physiologists this spring.
Beth Lewis, assistant professor, Kinesiology, has been awarded a
3-year $232,577 subcontract for her role as a co-investigator on a NIH-funded
multisite trial examining the efficacy of stent versus exercise for treating
peripheral artery disease entitled "Claudication: Exercise Versus Endoluminal
Revascularization (CLEVER)." Dr. Lewis will be responsible for delivering the
telephone-based exercise maintenance interventions to participants across all of
sites in the study.
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| March 2008 |
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Mary Jo Kane, Kinesiology chair and director of the Tucker Center, is
featured in an NCAA News Web site article, "Forum
Studies Women in Sports." The article highlights Kane's research in her
session titled "Portrayal of Female Athletes in the Media" to be given at the
upcoming Women in College Sports Forum, April 6, in Tampa, Florida.
Keith Russell, outdoor education associate professor in Kinesiology,
was featured in the February issue of Parks & Recreation for his work with the
Wise Kids program, an out-of-school pilot program designed to help kids make
wise nutrition and activity choices. Wise Kids is funded by the Säjai Foundation
and Dr. Russell has been heading the team that is assessing the program's
impact.
Two Kinesiology Ph.D. students have had posters accepted for presentation at
the American College of Sport Medicine's Annual Meeting May 29 in Indianapolis.
Danielle Templeton's poster is titled "Bone Mineral Content in Overweight
and Normal Weight Children." Michael Nelson's poster is titled
"Reliability of Heart Rate Variability by Sample Entropy at Rest and During
Light Exercise in Children." Both students are advisees of Dr. Don Dengel.
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| January
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Eric Brownlee, teaching specialist in kinesiology, recently had his
study "The Effectiveness of Sponsoring Women's Collegiate Sport" accepted for
presentation at the 2008 North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM)
conference in Toronto, Canada.
Keith Russell, associate professor in Kinesiology, will present a
symposium at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention in Boston
in August 2008. He and Dr. Lee Gillis, a psychologist from Georgia College and
State University, were chosen from a highly competitive field to present
"Group-Based Adolescent Treatment: Service Delivery and Effectiveness, and
Emerging Treatment Alternatives."
Professor Russell also has a chapter in a forthcoming book, Approaches to
Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities: A Guide to Practices
that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults, edited by Jeffrey D.
Roth, MD, and Andrew J. Finch, PhD. The book chapter is titled "Scope of the
Problem--Adolescent Substance Use."
Look for Tucker Center associate director Nicole LaVoi February 9,
2008, on the FoxSports
North broadcast of Hockey Day Minnesota,
where she will discuss results of the Tucker Center's research on what motivates
fans to attend men's and women's intercollegiate hockey.
Keith Russell, associate professor in Kinesiology, will present a
symposium at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention in Boston
in August 2008. He and Dr. Lee Gillis, a psychologist from Georgia College and
State University, were chosen from a highly competitive field to present
"Group-Based Adolescent Treatment: Service Delivery and Effectiveness, and
Emerging Treatment Alternatives."
Professor Russell also has a chapter in a forthcoming book, Approaches to
Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities: A Guide to Practices
that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults, edited by Jeffrey D.
Roth, MD, and Andrew J. Finch, PhD. The book chapter is titled "Scope of the
Problem--Adolescent Substance Use."
Kiley Theede, M.Ed. student in applied kinesiology/initial licensure,
has been selected 2008 Student of the Year by NASPE (National Association for
Sport and Physical Education). Kiley has an impressive academic record and
exceptional volunteer experiences. She is a mentor at Bethune Elementary in
Minneapolis and serves as an Amicus volunteer. She has volunteered for Toys for
Tots, ARC of Minnesota, the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, and Hearing and
Service Dogs. She attended the Global Peace and Security Summit in Minneapolis
last fall and will be attending the National Convention for the American
Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance this April in
Fort Worth, Texas. Elizabeth Spletzer is her adviser. Congratulations, Kiley!
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