Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D., assistant professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology, has been awarded a 2016 Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence from Emerald Group Publishing. Inoue’s award is in recognition of the best paper of the year in the international journal, Disaster Prevention and Management, and is based on his publication, “Sport and disaster relief: A content analysis,” co-authored with Dr. Cody Havard, University of Memphis.

Inoue is also the recipient of a Janet B. Parks NASSM Research Grant from the North American Society for Sport Management, in the amount of $4,306. His winning research proposal, entitled “The Influence of Sport Team Identification on Mental Health for Older Adults,” looks at how attending sports events may promote social relationships among older adults and positively influence their mental health status.