Kinesiology undergrad receives UROP award

Elyse Prescott, an undergraduate student in the School of Kinesiology, has received a U of M Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award. Prescott will assess the accuracy of a handheld device in evaluating total and regional measures of body composition and muscle quality. The project is under the direction of Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., professor in the School and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP). The UROP Award offers financial awards to full-time undergraduates for quality research, scholarly, or creative projects that are judged to contribute to the student’s academic development and which are undertaken in collaboration with a faculty sponsor.