PhD candidates, Folk and Huang, win this year’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Amanda Folk and Qiying Huang, School of Kinesiology PhD candidates, have been awarded the prestigious University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2022-2023. The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) allows the University’s most accomplished PhD candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project and dissertation during the fellowship year. Folk and Huang are among the limited number of graduate students across the University who received the award this year.

Folk is a member of the School’s Behavioral Physical Activity Laboratory (BPAL) and is advised by Daheia Barr-Anderson, PhD, School of Kinesiology associate professor and director of BPAL. Her thesis is titled, “Green Physical Activity in Natural Spaces: Motivators, Barriers, and the Role of Social Media in a Diverse Sample of Adults.”

Huang is a member of the School’s Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSCL) and is advised by Juergen Konczak, PhD, Kinesiology professor and director of HSCL. Her thesis is titled, “Robot-aided assessment of ankle proprioception in healthy adults and individuals after stroke.”