The School of Kinesiology’s Student Council put on the fourth annual Research Day event on Friday, April 26, at the McNamara Alumni Center. This year’s event featured flash talks by five School of Kinesiology graduate students, Qiyin Huang, Saurav Dubey, Anton Hesse, DJ McDonough, and Eydie Kramer; a keynote address by alumnus Zachary Pope, PhD, who spoke about how to find your future “why” in a post-graduation world; a panel of alumni who spoke about their current work experiences and how their time at the School of Kinesiology helped prepare them for their careers; and a lobby filled with research posters presented by School of Kinesiology students and labs.

Anton Hesse, a masters student in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science (LPHES), was awarded Best Presentation for his five minute talk, “Examining the Respiratory Compensation Point with Automated Methods in Recreational Runners Training for a Marathon.” He spoke about his research on what makes a good endurance athlete, and how to measure successful endurance athlete training and performance.

The Best Poster award was split between three posters. Winning posters were “Sensitivity to Changes in Dynamic Affordances for walking” by movement science doctoral student Nicolette Peterson, “Time and Money Related to Hair as Barriers to Physical Activity in African-American Women” by undergraduate kinesiology major Michael Urvig, and “The association between parent physical activity and child physical activity with self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and family support” by undergraduate kinesiology major Amanda Schmid. Urvig and Schmid both worked with the Behavioral Physical Activity Laboratory (BPAL) to do their research.

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2019 School of Kinesiology Research Day, and congratulations to this year’s contest winners. To see more photos from 2019 School of Kinesiology Research Day see the School of Kinesiology’s Facebook page.