Zachary Pope, Ph.D., recent graduate in the School of Kinesiology, has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. The fellowship is in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and focuses on cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention. Dr. Pope will begin his fellowship in July, 2018.

“Given my exercise physiology background and my current epidemiological research emphasis, this fellowship is a great fit and will provide opportunities for me to continue growing my research acumen,” says Pope.

A recipient of the U of M’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2017-18, Pope currently is a research assistant in the Physical Activity Epidemiology Lab (PAEL) under the leadership of his adviser, associate professor Zan Gao, Ph.D.