Sarah M. Greising, PhD, presented at the Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Distinguished Seminar Series. Greising spoke on 'Skeletal Muscle Reinnervation following Aging and Injury', highlighting work from across her lab.

Rachel Hawe, PhD, delivered the keynote presentation at the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science (CATSS) Spring Research Day on April 18. Her talk was titled 'Examining the interplay between vision and movement in development and neurologic disorders.'

Don Dengel, PhD, co-authored an article titled “Impact of hematopoietic cell transplantation on cardiovascular risk factors and insulin sensitivity” published in the Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, assessing the early development of cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Jill Chang is an alumna of the School of Kinesiology's sport management MA program. Learn more about how her degree and other experiences helped her have a successful career: bit.ly/3wrFbXr

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Best of luck to all of our students this finals season!

Don Dengel, PhD, co-authored an article published in the Surgery For Obesity & Related Diseases. The article was titled, “Changes in adipose tissue distribution and relation to cardiometabolic risk factors after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in adolescents.”

Don Dengel, PhD, authored a blog post titled, “The soft tissue-to-bone ratio in NFL players by position - Part II.' In this blog, Dengel examines the soft tissue-to-bone ratio (SBR) in 346 National League Football (NFL) players.

Christopher Lundstrom, PhD, was quoted in a New York Times article titled, 'Why You Should Add Some Sprints Into Your Workout.' The article discusses benefits of sprinting and steps to start sprinting safely.

Graduate assistant Mason Lentz presented at Winona State University, where he graduated with his bachelor's. The talk was on his research working towards his master's thesis and how the combination of traumatic muscle injury and physical inactivity impact the adjacent bone.

Graduate assistant Will Juckett was awarded the Abstract of Distinction - Endocrinology & Metabolism Section at the American Physiology Summit. It was titled 'Relationships among Gonadotropins, Sex Hormones, and Vascular Function in Adolescents with Normal Weight or Obesity.'

Undergraduate students Kennedy VanderLoop (PAHP) and Kanree Vang (KIN) each presented a poster during the University of Minnesota's Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium. Lab members Emily Kringle, PhD, OTR/L, Karli Jahnke, MOT, OTR/L, and Amos Badu, BSc, were co-authors.

Alumnus Chris Margallo, PT, DPT, SCS (BS ’01), has recently been appointed by USA Track & Field to be part of their medical staff for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. Read more about Margallo's experience and excitement towards the games bit.ly/49RFqce

Students, stop by Cooke 107 to celebrate the end of a great year! Your advisors will have snacks, games, and swag ready for you to enjoy.

LaVoi interviewed for a Martin Group article. She discusses her history working with women in coaching, the Tucker Center's research, and the state of women's sports.

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Our kinesiology students are a big part of what makes this program great! Hear from them about their thoughts on the major.

Rachel Hawe, PhD, presented work from the NeuRAL Lab at the American Society of Neurorehabilitation conference. She gave a talk as part of a symposium on computer vision approaches for rehabilitation and also presented a poster.

Members of SMPRL, led by Sarah Greising, PhD, attended and presented research at the 2024 American Physiology Summit. Undergraduate student Braydon Crum, graduate students Angela Bruzina, MS, and Mason Lentz, and postdoctoral fellow Daniel Hoffman, PhD, all presented posters.

Braydon Crum, kinesiology undergraduate student and researcher in SMPRL overseen by Sarah M. Greising, PhD, received Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Undergraduate abstract and research awards from the American Physiological Society.

Angela Bruzina, MS, and Christiana Raymond-Pope, PhD, published an article, “Limitations in metabolic plasticity after traumatic injury are only moderately exacerbated by physical activity restriction” in the NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease as co-first authors.