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THE VALLEY
How academics, athletics, and avatars converge. by Dr. Tom Hanrahan, Joshua
exercise and fitness industries. Initially
Hildebrand ’22, and Alison Wenger
planned as a space for exercise science
When Karen Lewis Schmitt ’80, a member of the College’s Board of Trustees since 2013, was first approached about helping make the Jeanne and Edward H. Arnold Health Professions Pavilion a reality, she had no idea of the
majors to facilitate student-faculty research in applied kinesiology when it opened for the fall 2018 semester, the Lewis Lab has drawn from across campus to become an academic center for students in at least eight other majors.
ripple effect her generosity would cause.
Schmitt immediately thought to recognize
Schmitt’s gift helped create the Lewis
her dad, Dr. Maurice Lewis, an internist
Human Performance Lab (Lewis Lab), a
who retired at age 79. “I wanted to honor
facility that rivals those found in larger
him, and this seemed like the perfect way
academic research institutions, research
to do so and help my alma mater at the
labs in academic medical centers, and re-
same time. Taking him on a tour of the lab
search and development facilities in the
was such a proud moment for us.”
