The School of Kinesiology’s Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory (PAEL) researchers, Daniel J. McDonough, PhD, and Wenxi Liu, PhD, recently secured positions at top research universities. McDonough landed a NIH T-32 post-doc position in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Meanwhile, Liu will be an assistant professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, a top-notch research university (ranked number 4) in China.

Both researchers defended their dissertations and received their doctoral degrees in the summer of 2021 under the mentorship of the lab director, Zan Gao, PhD.