Kinesiology
News Fall 2012
PEMDC receives donation Dr. Michael Horvat, Pediatric Exercise and Motor Development Clinic (PEMDC) director, received a donation of two Pioneers TOTs (Therapy-Oriented Tricycles), which are modified safety tricycles designed for children with special needs to help improve their strength and enhance their physical therapies while allowing them the thrill of playing and interacting with other children. “We are extremely pleased to receive the two trikes from the Pioneers who donated them to the PEMDC. These custom-built trikes make it possible for young children to enjoy the freedom, fun, and mobility that a trike can provide,” stated Horvat. “The trikes help to build strength in their legs, and the program provides a great service to children who are very grateful recipients of this gift.”
Manuella Barnes, Ph.D. student, demonstrates use of TOT Tricycle
Faculty Spotlight Catching Up with Dr. Thomas Baker Dr. Thomas Baker began his appointment as an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology in the fall of 2007. He completed his undergraduate studies in journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He then began his graduate studies by obtaining a J.D. degree from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Then in 2007, Dr. Baker earned his Ph.D. in Sport Management from the University of Florida. However, he is a proud supporter of his students who play for the Bulldogs. While at UGA, Dr. Baker has taught courses in sport law, facility and event management, sport ethics, and sport entrepreneurship. Dr. Baker’s experience in law allows him to have a unique perspective and recognize potential problems that can be addressed through research or through risk-management practices. He uses his years of
previous work experience as a law clerk, judicial intern, judicial extern, and attorney to guide his lectures and assist with research, explaining that knowledge of the law itself is valuable, but knowledge of how the law is applied is equally valuable. Dr. Baker’s degree in journalism has aided his ability to take a large amount of information and redeliver it in a consumable, smaller version that makes sense to others, an important skill needed for his research. His current research is in risk management involving youth sports and sport facility management; he is currently in the process of pursuing external funding options related to these two research topics. He also conducts research on sport commercial law and how it affects sport marketing, including studies on brand image and use of social media as well as the marketing and legal issues related to these topics.
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Fulbright Program Bryan McCullick, a professor and coordinator of the physical education program, is one of four UGA faculty members and professionals who received Fulbright Awards for the 2012-13 academic year. McCullick, who has been on faculty since 1998, served during the summer as a Fulbright specialist in Ireland. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange sponsored by the U.S. government designed to increase mutual understanding between the U.S. and other countries. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. The program operates in more than 155 countries. The UGA Fulbrights join 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad in the program this year.
McCullick meets former Taoiseach or Premier of Ireland (1997-2008), Bertie Ahern, at a football match in Dublin.
“The Fulbright Fellowship is one of the most prestigious international exchange awards, and I congratulate the award winners on this honor,” said Kavita Pandit, associate provost for UGA’s Office of International Education. “Their participation in the Fulbright program builds and extends UGA’s international relationships and networks.” McCullick’s areas of interest are teacher-coach education and physical education/sport pedagogy. He worked in Dublin with the Gaelic Athletic Association to advise and assist officials with the development of a curriculum for their new coach education framework, the Coach Model. McCullick will determine how the GAA can best develop an integrated delivery of the national coach education and physical education curriculum as well as assist in developing methods of engaging teachers with the GAA.“ By conducting workshops, seminars, and focus groups, I provided the GAA with feedback regarding a suitable strategy for their coaching and physical education programs,” said McCullick.
From the Department Head Kirk Cureton Another productive semester has passed. One of the main events that occurred was that the department underwent a program review by the university. We submitted a comprehensive self-study report (http://www.coe.uga. edu/kinesiology/files/2010/09/Kinesiology-2012-ProgramReview-Self-Study-Report-Portfolio.pdf) in October that summarized the department status and changes that have occurred over the last seven years, since the last review. The report covered faculty and staff; teaching and academic programs; research, service, and outreach; centers; and facilities and technical infrastructure. In addition, students, faculty, staff, and alumni were surveyed; faculty, staff, students, and the Dean were interviewed; and there was a tour of our facilities by a three-member faculty committee. The faculty on the committee were from the departments of Psychology; Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations; and Physiology and Pharmacology. Obviously, much has happened over the last seven years. At the time of the last review, the Department of Kinesiology had just been formed from the merger of the Departments of Exercise Science and Physical Education and Sport Studies. Since 2005, we have added nine new faculty (losing five) and four new staff (losing three); undergraduate and graduate enrollments have increased by approximately 40 percent; the sport management program has undergone dramatic development – now including a doctoral program with 20 students, a master’s program on the Gwinnett campus, and an international center. We have added other new programs, including an undergraduate major and graduate program specialization in athletic training, and a new graduate program specialization in strength, conditioning, and fitness; external funding of grants and contracts has increased three-fold; and we have increased the space we occupy in the Ramsey Center. We are currently involved in exciting, new instructional and research initiatives. By almost all benchmark measures, the department is strong, growing, and healthy. We are fortunate because the College of Education is under considerable strain due to major changes occurring in K-12 education, resulting in declining enrollments for the college as a whole. We are making additional efforts to expand our programs, which are in high demand, to increase credit hour production, which determines the operating budget allocation from the university to the COE.
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The sport management program inaugurated two new efforts this fall. First, the Gwinnett master’s program in sport management and policy began in fall. There are currently 13 students enrolled. But, the two Gwinnett classes offered at Gwinnet in the fall also attracted sport management students from the Athens campus, so enrollments for both classes were between 15 and 20. This is not quite as many students as we had hoped, but a good start nevertheless. Second, the International Center for Sport Management sponsored a lecture series, hosting speakers, primarily from the Atlanta area, to speak on topics related to sport business and management. These lectures have been successful in providing leadership for faculty and students interested in sport management on campus in programs other than our own (Law School, Terry College of Business, and Grady College of Journalism). The Grady College has recently hired two high-profile faculty to initiate a program in sport journalism. Our faculty will be working with them to develop a collaborative arrangement. Similar to most universities throughout the country, UGA is making a push to promote online programs and courses to compete directly with for-profit institutions and to deal with economic realities and demand. The university has been slow to embrace this approach. But the university and college are offering incentives to faculty to develop online programs and courses. We have two initiatives underway. First, Dr. Ilse Mason has been selected to participate in the inaugural group of the Online Learning Fellows Program at the University of Georgia. Dr. Mason is designing an online PEDB course that will help meet the growing need of UGA students to satisfy the university PE requirement from a distant location (while at study abroad, conducting an internship, or as part of a completely online undergraduate program). Second, Drs. Paul Schempp and Bryan McCullick are proposing an online certificate program in athletic coaching. This program will serve individuals in middle and high schools who desire to coach, but have no formal education related to coaching.
Obesity Initiative Our faculty continue to make an important contribution to the Obesity Initiative at the University of Georgia (http://obesity.ovpr. uga.edu). First, a number of our faculty regularly attend working groups of the initiative on Exercise and Obesity; Obesity in the Workplace; Functional Fitness, Disability, and the Environment; and Maternal and Childhood Obesity. Second, Drs. Evans, Cureton, McCully, Schmidt, Tomporowski, and McCullick have funded research studies dealing with the effects of exercise and diet on health outcomes related to obesity and associated chronic diseases and disabling conditions. Third, faculty have developed and offered new courses related to obesity and weight management (Dr. Evans and her postdoc Dr. Das – Exercise is Medicine and Weight Management
and Coaching; Dr. McCully – Introduction to Preventative Health in People With Disabilities). Fourth, Dr. Evans has worked with Cliff Baile, Executive Director of the UGA Obesity Initiative, and others in various colleges and units on campus (Pharmacy, Family and Consumer Sciences, Public Health, Counseling Clinic in COE, UGA Health Services, etc.) collaborating to increase campus wellness services. The College of Pharmacy and our Fitness Center have offered programs called Healthy Dawgs that focused on different elements of wellness. Although there has been considerable discussion of an incentive-based campus wellness program for faculty and staff, this has proven to be very complicated because the health insurance for faculty and staff is controlled by the Board of Regents and is administered for all colleges and universities in the University System. Dr. Evans has proposed an innovative instructional initiative that would train majors in Exercise and Sport Science, Foods and Nutrition, Public Health, and Counseling to serve as coaches for those needing assistance with weight management. Finally, faculty in Kinesiology are working with Family and Consumer Sciences and UGA administration to develop a graduate certificate program in Obesity and Weight Management.
New Faces The department currently has two searches underway: one for a faculty member in athletic training/biomechanics (in part replacing Dr. Ferrara) and the other for a faculty member specializing in physical activity and obesity or related chronic diseases (in part, replacing DuVal and Cress). These new faculty, along with Rebecca Leopkey who is a new sport management faculty member starting in fall 2013, have the potential to add considerably to the capacity of the department in instruction and research. Cathy Frosh, our senior accountant, retired December 1, 2012. Cathy had been with the Department of Kinesiology since its inception in 2004. David Avin has taken her place. David comes to us from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Institute on Human Development and Disability, where he was a senior accountant for the last 1.5 years. Prior to that position, David worked in the College of Education as an accountant and business manager in the Learning & Performance Support Laboratory for seven years. We welcome David to the department.
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Kudos to our Faculty, Students, and Alumni The 5th edition of Conducting & Reading Research in Kinesiology by Ted Baumgartner and Larry Hensley has just been published. Reese Hoffa (B.S.Ed. ‘02) competed in the 2012 Olympics in the shot put where he received a bronze medal.
UGA Education Faculty Present at Conference Associated with 2012 London Olympics Three University of Georgia College of Education faculty members - Rose Chepyator-Thomson, Bryan McCullick, and Michael Ferrara - made presentations at the 2012 International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport, a global scientific conference associated with the Olympic Games, in Glasgow, Scotland, July 19-24. Chepyator-Thomson, a professor in the sport management program, and McCullick, a professor and program coordinator of physical education, delivered papers as part of an invited symposium titled, “School Physical Education Curricula for Future Generations: Global Patterns? Global Lessons?” Chepyator-Thomson’s presentation titled, “Public Policy and Physical Education in Post-Colonial Africa,” explored how teaching movement forms in physical education are lost to the politics of knowledge in the schools. This is revealed through the ranking of subjects, the lack of indistinguishable characteristics between physical education and school sport, the presence of negative school practices, and the general understanding of school sport as an agent of social engineering and economic development, as well as an organ for the promotion of a nation’s international image abroad as in the Olympic Games. She concluded her presentation by describing “a way forward for physical education in Africa.” Along with speakers from New Zealand, South Korea, Germany, Australia, England, and Turkey, McCullick discussed the place of physical education in today’s schools. His presentation, “Re-Thinking the Place of P.E. in American Schooling,” proposed a rationale and a plan for physical education to reposition itself in the school curriculum so that it can make added contributions and remove itself from the debate on what public schooling should be.
Ferrara, the college’s associate dean for research, a professor of exercise science, and founder of UGA’s athletic training education program, presented at a symposium titled, “Sport-Related Concussion Management: From the Field to the Laboratory” with Larry Leverenz from Purdue University and Jake Resch (Ph.D. ‘10) from the University of Texas at Arlington. Ferrara presented on the current trends in concussion assessment and dual tasking. Dual-tasking requires an individual to perform a combination of mental and physical tasks concurrently to replicate sport activity. Phil Tomporowski and Ferrara have developed and tested dualtask methodology to assess executive function of the brain. The dual-task testing can be used to determine the severity of a concussion and assist clinicians in making return-toplay decisions.
2012 Graduate Student Case Study Competition Under the advisement of Dr. Kevin Byon, four sport management Ph.D. students (Brian Yim, Alyssa Tavormina, Carolina Salge, Gregg Rich) won the 2012 Graduate Student Case Study Competition at the annual Sport Marketing Association (SMA) conference in Orlando, FL. The competition was held October 23-26. Judged by an expert panel that was mixed of five industry professionals and academic scholars in sport marketing research, this prestigious achievement represents a new height that our Sport Management & Policy program at UGA has aspired to attain. During the conference, the students and advisor were formally recognized at the SMA Recognition Awards Luncheon. Congratulations to this group of students and Dr. Byon!
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Three undergraduates working with Dr. Cathleen BrownCrowell in the Biomechanics Lab presented their research at the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) Honors Symposium on April 2, 2012. Christopher Sudduth, Jenny Brickman, and Katie Black each presented oral abstracts based on their research on chronic ankle instability and functional movement screens. Chris also submitted his Honors Thesis, completed Summer and Fall 2012, and was awarded “Best Paper” in the Physical Sciences category. Chris and Jenny are Exercise Science majors. Christopher also received the 2012 COE Outstanding Undergraduate Honors Student Award. Brian Culp (B.S.Ed. ‘99, Ed.D. ‘05) has been selected as a 2012 Mabel Lee Award Recipient from AAHPERD. Billy Hawkins, professor of sport management and policy has been elected to the board of directors of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Forum for the Scholarly Study of Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education.
Bill Pryor (Ph.D. ‘12) received the Caroline tum Suden/ Hellebrand Professional Opportunity Award on behalf of the Council of the American Physiological Society for his abstract presented at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego in April. Bill received a certificate of recognition and a cash prize of $500 upon presentation of his preliminary research entitled, “Exercise and Neuroprotection in an Animal Model of Multiple Sclerosis.” In July, Bill accepted a postdoctoral position with The Scripps Research Institute. Scripps is a state-of-the-art biomedical research facility located in Jupiter, Florida, and employs cutting-edge technologies. Bill will be working alongside 200 other postdoctoral researchers on basic and translational biomedical research and drug discovery. Bill is working on a molecular neuroscience project that will attempt to describe how mTOR interacts with small GTPases and regulates striatal cytotoxicity in Huntington’s disease. Kudos to Phil Tomporowski, Bryan McCullick, and Mike Horvat who had their Preliminary Data Research Grant proposal titled, “Physical Activity and Overweight Children’s Academic Achievement,” funded for $21,573 by the UGA Obesity Initiative. Kudos to Cathleen Brown-Crowell, who was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure, and to Billy Hawkins, who was promoted to full professor. Thomas McDaniel (M.S. ‘12) has been promoted to head Road Bike Marketing at Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. in Morgan Hill, California.
IN MEMORIAM We are sad to report the passing of William James “BJ” Clemence, Jr. , who died October 10, 2012. He was born in Macon on March 15, 1932. He graduated in 1954 from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Education majoring in Physical Education and later received his doctorate. In 1955, he received a teaching assistantship at UGA, where he was an instructor in the Physical Education Department. During his tenure, he also coached golf, wrestling, and the varsity cheerleaders. In 1990, he retired as associate professor after 36 years with UGA. Read more here: www.legacy.com/obituaries/macon/obituary.aspx?pid=160458387#storylink=cpy
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Kinesiology Faculty and Students Have Been Busy Bowser, B., Larson, R., Brown, C. N., White, L., Simpson, K. J. (2012, May). Exercise improves sit-to-stand function in people with multiple sclerosis. Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Lucas, J. M., Schmidt, M. D., Thorpe, M. P., Mojtahdei, M. C., Guest, D. D., Das, B. M., Mailey, E. L., & Evans, E. M. (2012, June). Psychosocial predictors of objectively measured and physical activity behavior among female college freshmen. American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Brown, C. N., Rosen, A. B., Ko, J. P. (2012, June). Ankle laxity is correlated to self-report function and dynamic postural stability index. National Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Johnston T., Backus, D., McCully, K. (2012, October) Health and Fitness Benefits of Functional Electrical Stimulation for People with SCI. Presented at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine meeting in Vancouver, CA.
Ferguson, A. L., Byon, K. K., Baker, T. A., Zhang, J. J. (2012, October). Developing a conceptual framework of studying consumer brand attachment in sports: A Review of literature. 10th Sport Marketing Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
McCullick, B. (2012, July). Re-thinking the place of PE in American schooling. Paper presented at the International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS), Glasgow, SCO.
Salge, C., Byon, K. K., Baker, T. A., Zhang, J. J. (2012, October). Moderating effect of team identification on the relationship between constraints and sport consumption: Development of a conceptual framework. 10th Sport Marketing Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
McCullick, B., Walsh, S., & Wulkan, M. (2012, April). Overcoming “fat fatigue” in our reporting. Paper presented at the Association of Health Care Journalists Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Presentations by Faculty and Students
Caravalho, A., Freese, E., Cureton, K. (2012, May). No effects of six weeks of grape supplementation on delayedonset muscle pain responses to a mild exercise-induced muscle injury or mood, health status, treadmill performance time or maximal oxygen uptake. American Pain Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI. Chen, K. K., & Zhang, J. J. (2012, October). The Lakers is coming to town! Developing a demand model to estimate attendance of an individual NBA game from related game attributes. 10th Sport Marketing Association Conference, Orlando, FL. Fedewa, M. V., Thorpe, M. P., Mojtahdei, M. C., Guest, D. D., Das, B. M., Mailey, E. L., Schmidt, M. D., & Evans, E. M. (2012, June). Changes in physical activity and body composition in female freshmen during their first academic year. American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Ko, J. P., Rosen, A. B., Brown, C. N. (2012, June). Correlation between self-report ankle function and dynamic postural stability in recreationally active individuals. National Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, Lee, D., Blom, L. C., Zhang, J. J., Kim, S. H., & Choi, H. (2012, October). Consumers’ sport brand extension evaluations. 10th Sport Marketing Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
Rosen, A. B., Brown, C. N. (2012, October). Can ankle range of motion and ligament laxity measures predict selfreported ankle function? International Ankle Symposium, Lexington, KY. Rosen, A. B., Ko, J. P., Brown, C. N. (2012, June). The relationships between three commonly used ankle instability questionnaires. National Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO. Schempp, P. G. (2012, November). Developing expertise in youth sport. Keynote address, National Coaching Conference, Nippon Sport Science University, Tokyo, Japan. Schempp, P. G. (2012, November). Instructional expertise. Keynote address, Met Section PGA of America, Rye, NY. Schmidt, M. D., & Tudor-Locke C. (2012, June). How many steps are enough? Tutorial session presented at the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Melton, B., Brand, H., Marshall, E., Schmidt, M. D., Guion, K. W., & Nagle, J. (2012, June). Using a technology-based prenatal physical activity program: A pilot study. American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
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Tomporowski, P. D. (2012). Physical activity and children’s cognitive development. Invited key-note address to the 2012 International Conference of Exercise for 3Q - Health Quotient, Emotion Quotient, and Intelligence Quotient. National Taiwan Sport University. Taipei, Taiwan. October 5-6. Yim, B. H., Byon, K. K., Baker, T. A., & Zhang, J. J. (2012, October). Development of the Sport Fan Emotion Scale. 10th Sport Marketing Association Conference, Orlando, FL. Min, S. D., & Zhang, J. J. (2012, October). Examining the impact of market demand factors on game consumption level in the context of professional women’s national basketball: Development of a conceptual framework. 10th Sport Marketing Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
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Sciolino, N. R., Dishman, R. K., Holmes, P. V. (2012). Voluntary exercise offers anxiolytic potential and amplifies galanin gene expression in the locus coeruleus of the rat. Behavioural Brain Research, 233, 191-200 Shin, S., Valentine, R. J., Evans, E. M., Sosnoff, J. J. Lower extremity muscle quality and gait variability in older adults. Age and Ageing, 41(5): 595-599, 2012. Kamijo, K., Pontifex, M. B. , Khan, N., Raine, L. B., Scudder, M. R., Drollette, E. S., Evans, E. M., Castelli, D. M., Hillman, C. H. The association of childhood obesity to neuroelectric indices of inhibition. Psychophysiology, 49(10): 1361-71, 2012.
Articles Published by Faculty
Evans, E. M., Mojtahedi, M. C., Thorpe, M. P., Valentine, R. J., Kris-Etherton, P. M., Layman, D. K. Effects of protein intake and gender on body composition changes: A randomized clinical weight loss trial. Nutrition and Metabolism, 9(1): 55, 2012.
Barfiled, J. P., Cobler, D. C., Chitiyo, G., Lam, E. T. C., & Zhang, J. J. (2012). Differences in allied health decision making and enrollment barriers between White and African American students. Advances in Physiology Education, 36(2), 164-169.
Kamijo, K., Khan, N., Pontifex, M. B., Scudder, M. R., Drollette, E. S., Raine, L. B., Evans, E. M., Castelli, D. M., Hillman, C.H. The relation of adiposity to cognitive control and scholastic achievement in preadolescent children. Obesity. 20(12): 2406-11, 2012.
Brown, C. N., Bowser, B., & Simpson, K. J. (2012). Movement variability during single leg jump landings in individuals with and without chronic ankle instability. Clinical Biomechanics, 27(1), 52-63.
Grant, M. A., McCullick, B. A., Schempp, P. G., & Grant, J. T. (2012). Experts’ content knowledge of fundamentals. International Journal for Sport Science and Coaching, 7, 399-410.
Aguilar, A., DiStefano, L., Padua, D. A., Brown, C. N., Herman, D., Guskiewicz, K. M. (2012). A dynamic warmup model increases quadriceps strength and hamstring flexibility. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 26(4), 1130-1141.
O’Connor, P. J., & Herring, M. P. (2012). Physical activity, fatigue and vigor. In Rippe, J.M. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health (pp. 874-876). Sage Publications.
Chen, K.K., & Zhang, J J. (2012). To Name it or not? Consumer perspectives of collegiate athletic facility naming rights sponsorship. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 5, 119-148. Dishman, R. K., Sui X., Church T. S., Hand, G. A., Trivedi M. H., Blair, S. N. (2012). Decline in cardiorespiratory fitness and odds of incident depression. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 43, 361-368. Geller. K. S, Nigg, C. R., Motl, R. W., Horwath, C., Dishman, R. K. (2012). Transtheoretical model constructs for physical activity behavior are invariant across time among ethnically diverse adults in Hawaii. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, 606-613.
Moore, D., O’Connor, P. J., Tomporowski, P. (2012). The influence of exercise-induced fatigue on cognitive function. Journal of Sport Sciences, 30(9): 841-50. Herring, M. P., Puetz, T. W., O’Connor, P. J., Dishman, R. K. (2012). Effect of exercise training on depressive symptoms among patients with a chronic illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Archives of Internal Medicine, 172(2): 101-11. Schempp, P. G., McCullick, B. A., & Grant, M. A. (2012). Teaching coaching expertise: How to educate for coaching excellence. J. O’Dea (Ed.) Current Issues and Controversies in School and Community Health, Sport, and Physical Education (pp. 251-263). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
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Magnussen, C. G., Koskinen, J., Juonala, M., Chen, W., Srinivasan, S. R., Sabin, M., Thomson, R., Schmidt, M. D., Nguyen, Q., Xu, J., Skilton, M., Kahonen, M., Laitinen, T., Taittonen, L., Lehtimaki, T., Ronnemaa, T., Viikari, J. S. A., Berenson, G. S., & Raitakari, O. T. (2012). A diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome in youth which resolves by adult life is associated with a resolution of high carotid intima-media thickness and type 2 diabetes mellitus risk: The Bogalusa Heart and Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns studies. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 60(17): 1631-1639. Schmidt, M. D. (2012). Physical Activity, Purposeful. In J.M. Rippe (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health (pp. 883-885). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Simpson, K. J., Yom, J. P., Fu, Y. C., Arnett, S. W., O’Rourke, S., Brown, C. N. (in press). Does wearing a prophylactic ankle brace during drop landings affect lower extremity kinematics and ground reaction forces? Journal of Applied Biomechanics. Chang, Y-K., Ku, P-W., Tomporowski, P. D., Chen, F-T., & Huang, C-C. (2012). Effects of acute resistance exercise on middle-aged adults’ goal planning. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 44(9), 1173-1179. doi: 10.1249/ MSS.0b013e3182574e0b Wang, R. T., Ho, C. M., & Zhang, J. J. (2012). Examining the effects of relationship quality and calculative commitment on sport consumer behaviors for intercollegiate athletics. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 5, 301-328. Zhang, J. J., & Min, S. S. (2012). What should Asian countries do in a globalized sport marketplace? International Journal of Asian Society for Physical Education, Sport, and Dance, 10, 59-65. Li, H., Zhang, J. J., Mao, L. L., & Min, S. D. (2012). Assessing corporate social responsibility in China’s sports lottery industry and its influence on consumption behavior. Journal of Gambling Studies, 28(3), 515-540. Li, H., Mao L. L., Zhang, J. J., Wu, Y., Li, A. M., Chen, J. (2012). Dimensions of problem gambling behavior associated with purchasing sports lottery. Journal of Gambling Studies, 28, 47-68.
Books/Chapters Published by Faculty Baumgartner, TA., & Hensley, L. D. (2013). Conducting & reading research in Kinesiology (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Chepyator-Thomson, J. R. (2012). Sport Sociology in Africa. Patterson, O. (Ed.), Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia (pp. 379-381). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference. Chepyator-Thomson, J. R., & Byron, K. (2012). Indigenous, Colonial and Post-Colonial Perspectives on African Sports and Games. In A. Ojo and I. Aderibigbe (Eds.), Continental Complexities: A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Africa (pp. 229-242). San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. Chepyator-Thomson, J. R., Byron, K. C., & M’mbaha, J. M. (2012). Sport in Kenya. In M. Li, E. Macintosh, & G. Bravo (Eds.), International sport management pp. 162-163. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. Chepyator-Thomson, J. R., M’mbaha, J. M., & Byron, K. C. (2012). African Triple Heritage in Sport. In M. Li, E. Macintosh, & G. Bravo (Eds.), International sport management (pp. 159). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. Chepyator-Thomson, J. R. (2012). Promoting human dignity through sport activism: The case of Africa. In F. Polite and B. Hawkins (Eds.), Sport, Race, Activism and Social Change (pp. 93-110). San Diego, CA: Cognella Press. Dishman, R. K. and Holmes, P. V. (2012). Opioids and Exercise: Animal Models. In H. Boecker et al., Eds, Functional Neuroimaging in Exercise and Sport Sciences, pp 45-58. New York: Springer.
Grants/Funding Simpson, K. J, Brown Crowell, C. N. Arthrex Inc. August 2011 - August 2013. Do unicompartmental knee arthroplasties restore biomechanics and physical function of patients? $250,701. Evans, E. M., Meagher, R., Baile, C., & Arnold, J. Exerciseinduced epigenetic modifications in obese aging women. Office of the Vice President for Research 2012-13, $25,000. Evans, E. M., Johnson, M. J., McCully, K., & O’Connor, P. Effects of a higher protein weight loss diet and exercise on body composition, physical function and fatigue in overweight women. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, $272,489.
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Kinesiology Alumni Kinesiology Student Visits Sydney, Australia In February 2012, Laura Hawkins embarked alone on a journey of almost 10,000 miles to arrive in a foreign continent, culture, and college.
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I didn’t know a single person there, yet my experience at Sydney University in Australia is one that I would not exchange for the world. From the moment I arrived at the airport, I had to organize every moment. I was picked up by a hostel shuttle service after immediately buying a cell phone and proceeded to make calls in order to secure housing. Since my classes met on two different campuses that were 40 minutes apart, I had no idea where to procure housing—especially without a class schedule. I scrambled and fretted, but in just three days I was comfortably settled in my new room, just minutes from the train station and the main university campus. I quickly learned my way around during orientation week. Despite the fact that I had to commute to the Health Sciences campus, I was thrilled to learn that my classes only met once a week, which left me scads of free time to experience the city. My classes were all set up in the same way—one- or two-hour lectures that usually had a different professor each hour and a 10-minute break between hours. Assessments were rare; most classes only gave a few tests and one paper or project. My biomechanics grade was composed of only two assessments—a midterm and a final! However, since Sydney University has such difficult grading standards (only 5% of students get above an 85), UGA allows course credit to transfer without affecting GPA, so I had far less stress at exam time!
With the stress of academia so diluted, I joined a circus club on campus that caught my eye with its flashy tricks and stunts. I spent much of my time with the circus club learning to do stunts and acrobatics, as well as how to juggle, backflip, and even play with fire. It was with that tightknit group of people that I also walked across the Harbour Bridge, had my first experience with yum cha, played trivia at Kelly’s bar, watched the sunset over the harbor from a secret lookout, made s’mores (a novelty for the Australians!), attended $5 comedy club nights, watched circus and magic shows, and, of course, visited some of the best bars and restaurants that Sydney has to offer. When July rolled around, I longed to stay. With its laidback yet motivated atmosphere, Australia felt like home. I had made amazing friends, had one-of-a-kind experiences, and studied at one of the best universities in the world. If there is one thing that is undeniably true, it is that Sydney is absolutely unforgettable, and I highly recommend the exchange program to every Kinesiology student!
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Where Our Alumni are Now
Where our 2011 Graduates are Headed
Cherie Rooks-Peck (Ph.D. ‘09) completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Medicine and then Department of Epidemiology at Emory University. She has a position at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, which is a U.S. Department of Energy institute with the CDC.
Taylor Adkins, B.S.Ed., accepted a position with UGA’s Auxillary Services.
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