CEHD News Month: May 2017

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CEHD News Month: May 2017

Inoue has article accepted for publication in Journal of Sport Management

May 2, 2017

image of Yuhei InoueKinesiology assistant professor Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D., has had his article, “Sport Spectatorship and Life Satisfaction: A Multi-Country Investigation,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Sport Management. The article reports the findings of two studies demonstrating how engagement in elite and professional sport events, behaviorally through live spectating and psychologically through team identification, is associated with life satisfaction.

The in-press article may be accessed here: Inoue, Y., Sato, M., Filo, K., Du, J., & Funk, D.C. (in press). Sport spectatorship and life satisfaction: A multi-country investigation. Journal of Sport Management.

ICD undergraduate Erica Smolinski receives research fellowship

May 2, 2017
Erica Smolinski
Erica Smolinski

Erica Smolinski, an undergraduate child psychology student in the Institute of Child Development (ICD), has received a $2,000 fellowship from the International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS). This is the first year ICIS has awarded grants to support undergraduate student research.

The fellowship will support Smolinski’s summer research project, which will examine differences in how mothers imagine their unborn child and their relationship with the child, as well as how family planning may be associated with these differences. The project will leverage data from the Women and Infants Study of Health, Emotions, and Stress (WISHES), a study led by ICD doctoral student Colleen Doyle. Smolinski will be mentored by Megan Gunnar, Ph.D., director of the Institute.

Steven Massey (Ed.D’99)

May 1, 2017

Steven Massey (Ed.D ’99), has been offered Forest Lake’s superintendent position. Dr. Steve Massey has served as a principal for many years. Dr. Massey served as the assistant principal of Century Junior High School in 1991 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003 Massey was the principal at Central Learning Center and Montessori Elementary. Dr. Massey served as Forest Lake Area High School’s principal for the past 14 years. As the principal of Forest Lake Area High School, Massey became an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota in 2008. Massey received his Ed.D degree of Educational Policy and Administration from University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 1999.

Chaudhuri quoted in HR magazine regarding reverse mentoring research

May 1, 2017

Sanghamitra Chaudhuri, lecturer in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), was recently quoted about her research in the article How HR Can Support Reverse Mentoring in HR Magazine, which is one of the most widely read human resource professional publications.

“As for program design, companies should build programs based on what leaders will learn that will help the company, says Sanghamitra Chaudhuri, a University of Minnesota lecturer in organizational policy and leadership development who has been studying reverse mentoring since 2012.”

Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate Zachary Pope awarded U of M’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2017-18

May 1, 2017

Zachary Pope, Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded the prestigious University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2017-2018.

Zachary is advised by Kinesiology associate professor Zan Gao, Ph.D., and is a member of the School’s  Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory. His thesis is titled, “Use of Polar M400 to Improve Physical Activity and Eating Behaviors among College Students: A 12-week Randomized Pilot Study.”

The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University’s most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year.

Zachary is one of just 100 students across the University who received the award this year. Congratulations!

 

Katelyn Uithoven, Ph.D. candidate, receives 2017-18 Kinesiology Doctoral Dissertation Award

May 1, 2017

Congratulations to Katelyn Uithoven, Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate, who has received the 2017-18 Kinesiology Doctoral Dissertation Award. Ms. Uithoven is studying for her doctorate in the emphasis area of exercise physiology and is advised by Eric Snyder, Ph.D. She is a member of the Clinical Exercise Physiology Laboratory. Her thesis is titled, “Clinical Consequences and Lung Fluid Balance based on β-Adrenergic Interactions in Heart Failure.”

The award will provide a 50% research assistantship for the next academic year.

The Doctoral Dissertation Award allows accomplished Kinesiology  doctoral candidates the opportunity to devote efforts to an outstanding research project under the mentorship of the student’s primary faculty adviser.