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KIN wishes Olympic connections good luck in London

July 27, 2012

In light of the 2012 Summer Olympics, the School of Kinesiology is proud to recognize its connections to the Games unfolding in London, England over the next two weeks.KINOlympics

Alumni representing the School are former Gopher star and current Minnesota Lynx guard Lindsay Whalen (B.S., sport management, 2004); triple jumper Amanda Smock (Ph.D., exercise physiology, 2010); and Olympic Committee Member Angela Ruggiero (M.Ed., applied kinesiology, 2010). In addition, Roberto Sobalvarro, instructor for PE 1031 Sabre Fencing and PE 1033 Foil Fencing in the School of Kinesiology, has been named the head coach of the Women’s Epee U.S. Olympic Team.
The School of Kinesiology shares the Olympic games’ mission to encourage and support the promotion of ethics in sport, with aim to enrich the quality of human life. Congratulations, and good luck!

Dengel publishes with former advisee, attends NIH committee meeting

July 26, 2012

DengelD-2005Dr. Don Dengel has had two articles accepted for publication with lead author Danielle Templeton, his PhD advisee who completed her doctorate in 2010:
Templeton DL, John R, Painter P, Kelly AS, Dengel DR: Effects of the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) on the Compliance and Distensibility of the Carotid Artery. Heart and Vessels (in press).
Templeton DL, Mosser KHH, Chen J, Stone MD, John R, Dengel DR, Thompson LV: Effects of Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) placement on myocardial oxidative stress markers. Heart, Lung & Circulation (in press).
Dr. Dengel’s other summer activities included attending the Pediatric Exercise Data Harmonization Project meeting at the University of California-Irvine on July 12. This NIH-sponsored committee is developing a national registry for pediatric exercise data and consists of experts from the United States, Canada and Europe.

Wade invited to serve on National Science Foundation Committee of Visitors

July 16, 2012

WadeM-2011Dr. Michael Wade, Kinesiology professor of motor learning and development, was recently appointed to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Committee of Visitors (CoV). His duties will include the review of programs within the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Services (BCS) at the National Science Foundation on October 10-12, 2012.
The CoV is convened every five years to conduct a complete review of the practices and policies of NSF programs, and to provide guidance for future program policy. The NSF invites the most highly accomplished and respected scientists to serve on the committee.

Bolter and Weiss publish on coaching for character development

July 12, 2012

Mo_Nicole_Monterey_08Nicole Bolter (PhD, University of Minnesota, 2010) and Maureen Weiss, Kinesiology professor, have two papers–one published and one “in press” in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology–on development and validation of a measure of coaching behaviors that promote sportspersonship in athletes. The published paper is titled, “Coaching for character: Development of the Sportsmanship Coaching Behaviors Scale (SCBS),” (2012, Volume 1, pp. 73-90), and the in-press paper is titled, “Coaching behaviors and adolescent athletes’ sportspersonship outcomes: Further validation of the Sportsmanship Behaviors Scale (SCBS).”
Using multiple methodologies (focus groups, expert panel, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling), Bolter and Weiss provided evidence of construct validity for a measure that assesses six coaching behaviors–sets expectations for good sportsmanship, reinforces good sportsmanship, punishes poor sportsmanship, teaches good sportsmanship, models good sportsmanship, and prioritizes winning over good sportsmanship–that positively or negatively influence athletes’ prosocial and antisocial behaviors toward opponents and teammates. This measure can be used in future studies on coaches’ behaviors in relation to athletes’ character development through sport participation.
Dr. Bolter just completed a two-year lecturer position at San Francisco State University and is headed to Boise State University in a tenure-track assistant professor position.

Magnuson authors chapter in ground-breaking ebook focused on academic technology

July 10, 2012

MagnusonC-2012Dr. Connie Magnuson, faculty in Kinesiology and coordinator of the B.S. in Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies, is a contributor to the recently published ebook, Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50 Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012. Magnuson’s chapter, “Costa Rica Digital Exploration,” focuses on the integration of digital storytelling into her Costa Rican study abroad course.
Cultivating Change is an eBook designed to stimulate discussion about what’s possible as well as generate new vision and academic technology direction. It serves as a means for faculty, instructors, students, and staff to learn about the innovative, imaginative, creative, collaborative, and dynamic academic technology work underway across the University of Minnesota in 2012. You can download the book at http://purl.umn.edu/125273, and join in on the conversation at
https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/.
More recently the ebook has been the focus of the following articles:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/27/university-minnesota-releases-e-book-about-academic-technology
http://www.startribune.com/local/162959346.html
https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/

Kane appeared on MPR’s The Daily Circuit

July 3, 2012

KaneMJ-2005 Dr. Mary Jo Kane, School of Kinesiology professor and director of the Tucker Center, was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s The Daily Circuit on Tuesday, July 3. Kane was joined on the program by Dave Zirin, writer for the Nation Magazine and host of the Edge of Sports for Sirius Radio, discussing how sports can enhance or hurt a culture.

Ji appointed Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)

July 2, 2012

Prof. Ji Lili and Vice President Xu Fei_normal-thumb-300x199-127641Li Li Ji, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology and professor and director of Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science, recently accepted the appointment as a Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China’s fourth-ranked university. SJTU Vice President Xu Fei issued the appointment letter and conducted the ceremony. Prior to the ceremony, Ji gave the keynote address, “Exercise is Medicine: Based on the Theory of Molecular Biochemistry.”

Allison gives invited lecture at Tianjin University of Sport in China

June 27, 2012

AllisonR-2007Rayla Allison, J.D., associate director and lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, recently gave an invited talk, “The Role of Intellectual Property in United States Sports,” at Tianjin University of Sport (TUS) in China.
Allison’s presentation was part of a School of Kinesiology visit to TUS and the recently opened American Cultural Center for Sport. She was joined on the trip by Professor Li Li Ji, director of the School of Kinesiology, and Michael Freeman, J.D., Hennepin County District Attorney.
During the visit, the delegation toured the TUS campus, including the Tianjin Municipal Citizen and Student Physical Testing Center, National Key Lab of Competitive Sports Psychology and Physiological Adjusting, Tianjin Municipal Key Lab of Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine. The group also visited two local tourist attractions: the newly established Tianjin Culture Center and the Hai He River.
Read more about the opening of the cultural center in this Connect magazine story.
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Kihl and advisee Vicki Schull to publish in Journal of Sport Management

June 26, 2012

KihlL-2004Dr. Lisa Kihl, associate professor of sport management, and her advisee, PhD candidate Vicki Schull, have had an article accepted for publication. Dr. Sally Shaw, who will be a visiting scholar in the Tucker Center this fall, is also an author. “Fear, anxiety, and loss of control: Analyzing an athletic department merger as a gendered political process” will appear in the Journal of Sport Management, the premier journal in the sport management discipline.
Ms. Schull is also advised by Tucker Center professor and director Dr. Mary Jo Kane.

Stoffregen and advisee Yu will publish in Journal of Motor Behavior

June 25, 2012

StoffregenT-2007YY_Jan2011-thumb-150x112-79417Dr. Tom Stoffregen, professor of movement science, announces the publication of an article he collaborated on with former advisee, Dr. Yawen Yu. Dr. Yu received her PhD in spring, 2011.
The article is titled “Postural and locomotor contributions to affordance perception,” by Yawen Yu and Thomas A. Stoffregen, and has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Motor Behavior.
Dr. Yu is a post-doctoral fellow in the Biomechanics Core Facility at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Stoffregen and colleagues will publish in Gait & Posture

June 22, 2012

tas2“Standing body sway in women with and without morning sickness in pregnancy,” by Yawen Yu, Hyun-Chae Chung, Lauren Hemingway, and Thomas A. Stoffregen, has been accepted for publication in Gait & Posture.
Dr. Yu received her PhD in Kinesiology from the U of M. Dr. Chung is Professor of Kinesiology at Kunsan National University, Republic of Korea; she spent a sabbatical year in APAL in 2010-2011. Lauren Hemingway is a U of M undergraduate Kinesiology major who has been supported by the UROP program as an APAL research assistant.

Kane to discuss Title IX on Access Minnesota this Sunday

June 21, 2012

KaneMJ-2005On June 24, Dr. Mary Jo Kane, professor and director of the Tucker Center, will appear on Access MInnesota, a weekly public affairs program focusing on issues, people, and stories that impact Minnesota. Dr. Kane will be discussing Title IX and its effect on women’s athletics on the high school, college, and professional level, as well as gender disparity in professional coaching.
For broadcast times and stations, go to: http://www.accessminnesotaonline.com/schedule/

Kane to appear on NPR’s All Things Considered for Title IX 40th anniversary

June 20, 2012

KaneMJ-2005Title IX, the civil rights legislation that banned sex discrimination in schools and forever altered opportunities for girls in education, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its signing on Saturday, June 23. In recognition of the landmark decision, Dr. Mary Jo Kane, professor and director of the Tucker Center, will be interviewed with other nationally recognized Title IX experts on NPR’s All Things Considered radio broadcast on Friday afternoon.
Dr. Kane will offer her perspective on the social and economic impact of the law and its extraordinary significance on the participation and accomplishments of girls and women in sports. The program will be broadcast after 3 p.m. tomorrow on KNOW-FM, 91.1. For more information on Friday’s programming, visit the NPR site.

Dengel is awarded NFL Charities Medical Research Grant

June 15, 2012

DengelD-2005Dr. Don Dengel, associate professor of exercise physiology, has been awarded an NFL Charities Medical Research Grant in the amount of $99,998 to support his research project, “Effects of Multiple Sports-Related Concussions on Neurocognition and Cerebral Vascular Function.” He is the PI on the 2-year grant. Congratulations, Dr. Dengel!

Kane will take the floor with Minnesota Lynx on Title IX anniversary

June 14, 2012

KaneMJ-2005The WNBA championship team Minnesota Lynx have featured Mary Jo Kane in a Web article on Title IX and the gains in women’s sports participation over the last 40 years. Dr. Kane, sport sociology professor and director of the Tucker Center, will be spending June 23, the day 40 years ago that Title IX was signed into federal law, celebrating with the Lynx, wearing a commemorative jersey with the Roman numeral “IX” and being center stage for an in-game spotlight.
Kane is glad to spend June 23 celebrating Title IX’s 40th anniversary with the Lynx. “I’m really proud of the Lynx,” she said. “I’m just proud of them as somebody who lives in the Twin Cities to call them my team.”

Delegation from Tianjin University of Sport (China) visits School of Kinesiology

June 13, 2012

The partnership between the University of Minnesota and Tianjin University of Sport (TUS) in China created by the recently opened American Cultural Center for Sport prompted a TUS delegation to visit the University from June 4-7. Led by by Professor Zhang Yong, Vice President of TUS, and Professor Wang Jian, Director of the Tianjin Graduate School, the delegation met with Meredith McQuaid, Associate Vice President and Dean for International Programs for the University of Minnesota, Joan Brzezinski, the Executive Director of the University’s China Center and Confucius Institute, and Professor Li Li Ji, Director of the School of Kinesiology in the College of Education and Human Development.

During the visit, the delegation toured the UM campus and the School of Kinesiology, including the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science, the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory, and the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory.
As part of these activities, a memorandum was signed between the TUS delegation and Dean McQuaid supporting further Chinese-U.S. sport culture exchange, including the preparation of a visit by Chinese sport and art performance groups to the University of Minnesota. Yong, on behalf of TUS, also expressed his heartfelt thanks to the China Center for its great effort in promoting this cultural exchange.
The American Cultural Center for Sport is funded by a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State and is a partnership among the University’s China Center and School of Kinesiology, and the Tianjin University of Sport in Tianjin, China.

Allison is featured moderator, panelist at 2012 Brewer Sports Symposium

June 13, 2012

AllisonR-2007Rayla Allison, J.D., associate director and lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, will be presenting at the 2012 Brewer Sports Symposium June 14-15 at the Minneapolis Club.
Ms. Allison will moderate the Thursday session, “Women in Sports: Title IX and Beyond,” and will serve on a panel, “Amateur Sports: Sacred Cow or Yeti?” On Friday, she will be a panelist for the session, “Guide to a Career in Sports.”
School of Kinesiology alumnus and adjunct faculty member, Phil Esten (Ph.D., 03), will also be presenting at the conference and moderating a panel discussion. Dr. Esten is the president and CEO of the U of M Alumni Association.
The symposium is sponsored by Brewer Sports International and the Jack Brewer Foundation. Jack Brewer is an alumnus of the School of Kinesiology (B.S., 01, M.Ed., 02) and a former Golden Gopher.