Dr. Juergen Konczak, professor in biomechanics, has published an article in the November issue of Journal of Motor Behavior:

Konczak J, Corcos DM, Horak F, Poizner H, Shapiro M, Tuite P, Volkmann J, Maschke M. Proprioception and motor control in Parkinson's disease. J Mot Behav. 2009 Nov;41(6):543-52.

The article originated from an interdisciplinary University-sponsored workshop on Proprioception and Motor Control in Parkinson's Disease that Prof. Konczak organized in September 2008 and represents the collective expertise from several national and international experts in this area.

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Tyler Johnson, senior kinesiology major, is profiled in a full-length UMNews feature this week. Johnson has managed to juggle family, a business, an internship, and military service while attending school.

Read the full article: Man of many hats.

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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, was quoted in The New York Times on November 11 in an article titled, For All the Wrong Reasons, Women's Soccer Is Noticed. The piece follows up on the suspension of college soccer player Elizabeth Lambert of the University of New Mexico after she engaged in shoving, punching, tripping and yanking an opponent down by the ponytail November 5 in a 1-0 loss to Brigham Young.

Kane remarked, "I think women being physically aggressive and violent is, in many ways, the last boundary to break ... I think you'll see snippets, but I don't think you'll see the same kind of behavior as men. In the broader social context, we don't allow women to engage in that kind of behavior. There would be a pushback."

Tucker Center Associate Director, Nicole LaVoi, was also quoted on the same subject in WCCO's Good Question: Why Are We Drawn To Women Fighting?.

LaVoi stated, "Women get national news sports coverage when they behave outside of the societal norms for a woman."

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Dr. Arthur Leon, exercise science professor, has been invited to chair two sessions at the 2009 American Heart Association's Annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, FL, November 14 to 18. The sessions are entitled "Exercise as an Intervention to Improve Health and Functioning in Patients with CVD," and "Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training." Dr. Leon also will give a presentation to summarize the sessions.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, presented research with doctoral student Lindsay Kipp and collaborator David Goodman (Simon Fraser University) at the Sport Canada Research Initiative Conference in Ottawa on November 4. The title of the presentation was, Unsportsmanlike aggression in youth hockey: Attitudes, perceived social approval, situational temptation, and role models. The annual conference brings together academics and policymakers to translate research in an effort to enhance the quality of physical activity participation of Canadian youth and adults. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded the research.

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Dr. Stacy Ingraham, lecturer in Kinesiology, was interviewed on WCCO-TV on November 4 on the nature of runners' second wind. For runners, it may be the most important part of a long-distance race. For everyday exercisers, it's the boost that comes right after overexertion. To view the full story, go to: http://wcco.com/sports/second.wind.exercise.2.1292513.html

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Tucker Center Associate Director, Nicole LaVoi, and affiliated Tucker Center scholar Heather Maxwell are both presenting at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference in Ottawa, Canada on November 4-7, 2009.

LaVoi's presentation is titled, Coaching Youth Soccer as a Token Female. Maxwell will present research that she and Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology and the Tucker Center, conducted on media portrayals of female athletes, titled Critical Analysis of Consumer Responses to Representations of Women's Sports.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, will give a talk Wednesday, November 4, on "Lesion-symptom mapping of the human cerebellum." His presentation, part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Colloquium Series, will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 2-101, Hasselmo Hall.

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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in "From Wearing Jumpers to Shooting Them," in the Fall 2009 issue of the NCAA Champion magazine. The piece, which also mentions The Tucker Center, notes Kane's research with former Kinesiology graduate student Heather Maxwell on consumer response to representations of women's sports, as well as Kane and Kinesiology Education Specialist Jo Buysse's research on female athlete representations on media guide covers.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., and Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., professors in Kinesiology and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, published a paper titled, Promoting Positive Youth Development Through Physical Activity, in the September 2009 issue of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest available online.

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Tucker Center Associate Director, Nicole LaVoi, will give a workshop to the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association on Friday, October 23, 6-8:00pm, as part of the We Coach: Educating & Empowering Through Sport initiative.

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Fall semester's CEHD magazine Connect spotlights a host of Kinesiology faculty and students. Read about Kinesiology student Heather Dorniden, U of M track team star, and how she copes with dueling pressures of competing on the field and achieving success in the classroom: More Than Game.

The important relationship of physical activity to lifelong health and well-being is explored in the article Teaming Up. Tucker Center faculty and associated faculty Daheia Barr-Anderson, Lisa Kihl, Nicole LaVoi, and Jo Ann Buysse, and graduate student Chelsey Thul, are doing research and working on a variety of projects to bring the message of the vital importance of exercise and physical activity to local and international communities.

And in the article The Sporting Life, , Prof. Maureen Weiss and Dr. Nicole LaVoi share their knowledge and research on kids' participation in youth sports.

You can also view the entire issue of Connect.

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, and second-year sport sociology doctoral student and research assistant Austin Calhoun have published the results from their research study "Examining Online Intercollegiate Head Coaches' Biographies: Reproducing or Challenging Heteronormativity and Heterosexism?" in the article "Team Media Guides and College Coaches' Biographies: Who Gets to Have a Personal Life? What Can Online Intercollegiate Coach Biographies Tell Us About Inclusivity and Tolerance of Diverse Sexual Orientations?" in the Women's Sports Foundation Web site's It taks a Team section. The initial study, which included only Big 10 coaches, was expanded to include a nationwide sample of Division I head coaches. It Takes A Team is an educational program sponsored by the Women's Sports Foundation and designed to end homophobia in sport.

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The School of Kinesiology in collaboration with the Big Ten's Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is hosting a high-level delegation of Chinese sport and physical education dignitaries on October 21-23. Last year, CIC schools sent their kinesiology faculty representatives to China for two weeks to encourage academic exchange in undergraduate programs and to explore potential research collaborations. This year the CIC is bringing their counterparts to the U.S. from these participating Chinese universities: Beijing Sport University; Tianjin University of Sport; Beijing Normal University; Harbin University of Sport; the Capital Institute of Physical Education in Beijing; Chengdu Sport University; East China Normal University in Shanghai; and South China Normal University in Guangzhou. The delegation will arrive in the Twin Cities and, with the help of an interpreter from the University's China Center, tour the University and specifically the School of Kinesiology's programs and facilities.

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The Tucker Center's Fall 2009 Distinguished Lecture, Facing Off Over Facebook: The Impact of Social Media on Women Sports, will be available via live stream on Monday, Oct. 19, beginning at 7:00pm Central Time. [convert this to your time]

The links to watch the lecture remotely are as follows (NOTE: The exterior links below may not work until the event has begun):

Tucker Center Site

Broadband Users (QuickTime Player)

Dial-Up Users (QuickTime Audio Only)

If you experience issues with the media player or the live stream, we urge you to contact us. You can reach Austin Calhoun during the DLS for any tech issues (calho029@umn.edu or via Twitter).

Note: The exterior links may not work until the event has begun.

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Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology (sport management), was interviewed by Fox 9 News (9pm) on October 13th. Ross discussed the marketing power and endorsement opportunities of Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson.

The story and broadcast video are available, see Adrian Peterson: Football and Marketing Star.

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Dr. Dorothy McNeill Tucker, whose generous endowment established the renowned Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, has created a $25,000 matching scholarship to support graduate studies at the Tucker Center. This exceptional gift enables the Tucker Center to bring outstanding students from around the U.S. to the U of M to pursue their graduate coursework and to engage in research on the impact of sport and physical activity on the lives of girls and women. Thanks to Dr. Tucker's visionary leadership and generosity, the Tucker Center will be able to provide this scholarship in perpetuity.

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Michael Wade, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, is in Taiwan October 6-12 to give two invited presentations at Cheng-Kung University in the city of Tainan. He will also be visiting students and faculty at National Taiwan Normal University and Kaohsiung University. Several former Kinesiology Ph.D. students have faculty positions in both universities.

Wade has also been invited to give the keynote address at the 2010 AAHPERD Convention March 17, 2010, in Indianapolis. The conference will be sponsored by the Motor Development and Learning Academy. The title of his address will be, "Lifespan Motor Development: Movement by Design and Movement that Informs."

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The Tucker Center's Chesley Thul and Kelli Blankeship are presenting research posters Wednesday, October 7, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. in the TCF Stadium at the Student Scholar & Public Engagement Showcase.

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, and U of M hockey player and former Tucker Center summer intern and McNair Scholar Kelli Blankenship are featured on the University of Minnesota's home page in a piece titled Showcasing academics that highlights Blankenship's academic and research accomplishments and LaVoi's mentorship.

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An adjunct instructor in the School of Kinesiology, Chris Lundstrom finished 12th overall in this year's Twin Cities Marathon with a time of 2:18:58, qualifying him for the Olympic Trials. This marathon was actually a "tune up" for him to run the New York City Marathon on November 1. Fittingly, Lundstrom teaches PE 1262: Marathon Training. In addition, he teaches conditioning courses and the Coaching & Theory of Track & Field in the Physical Activity Program. Congratulations, Chris!

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Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, led a workshop on Saturday October 3th on sports event management. The workshop was the capstone program for the Certificate in Festival and Event Management Program coordinated by the University of Minnesota Tourism Center. Ross spoke on current issues in sports event management, sponsorship opportunities, and the importance of sporting events in community development.

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The organizers of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics have invited Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor of biomechanics, and colleagues to present a paper that will subsequently be published in a peer-reviewed engineering journal. This is the second paper this year originating from Konczak's collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology, where he spent a recent sabbatical. Konczak is the senior author of the paper. The conference will be held November 12-14.

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, is the featured author in an Octoiber 1, 2009, Minnesota Women's Press LeaderVoice guest column entitled, "Relational Coach".

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The School of Kinesiology, in collaboration with Christopher Johnstone, Director of the College of Education and Human Development's International Initiatives and Relations, is hosting a delegation from the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, on Monday, October 5. The delegation includes Torunn Lauvdal, the university's Rector, and Svein Arild Pedersen, Director of the International Office, who will be discussing potential University-wide partnerships and student exchange. The delegation will be talking with the School director Mary Jo Kane, Connie Magnuson, coordinator of the program in Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies, and with Sean Morrisey and Mitch Hoffman from the Department of Recreational Sports' Center for Outdoor Adventure.

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The Tucker Center, in collaboration with the Minnesota International Center and the U.S. Department of State, is hosting an International Visitor Leadership Program "Women in Sports" delegation from the State of Qatar in the Persian Gulf on Friday, October 5. Maha Yousef Al-Abduliabbar, Member, Board of Qatar Women's Sport Committee, Ahlam Salem Al-Mana, President, Qatar Women's Sport Committee, and Salha Masoud Al-Naemi, Manager, Qatar Women's Basketball Team, will tour the Tucker Center and talk with Austin Stair Calhoun, doctoral candidate, regarding the Center's programming objectives and implementation.

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Dr. Beth Lewis, assistant professor in kinesiology, will serve as a Co-Investigator on a grant just funded by the Centers for Disease Control. The grant for $200,000 over one year will fund a study on "Prevention of Gestational Diabetes in American Indian Women." The PI is Dr. Jamie Stang from the School of Public Health.

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Dr. Art Leon, professor of kinesiology, and Ulf Bronas, research associate in the School of Nursing, have published another article in the latest edition of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. The title of the article, "Pathophysiology of coronary heart disease and biological mechanisms for the cardioprotective effects of regular aerobic exercise," appears in the September/October publication's State of the Art Reviews.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor of Kinesiology, will be among the faculty speaking at the upcoming Twin Cities Sports Medicine Conference on October 2-3. Wiese-Bjornstal will be speaking on "Sport Specialization for Young Athletes." The conference, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Office of Continuing Medical Education, is being held in Minneapolis at the Radisson University Hotel.

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The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport has created a new blog in conjunction with its Fall 2009 Distinguished Lecture on sport, gender and social media. The first post, Social Media: What it is and Why it Matters to Women's Sports, went live on Monday. Look for guest bloggers, Dr. Marie Hardin and Dave Zirin, later this week!

Content from the Tucker Center's discussion of Michael Sokolove's controversial book, Warrior Girls, has also been migrated to the blog.

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George Biltz, M.D., lecturer in exercise physiology at the School of Kinesiology, has been awarded a $1,200 travel grant from the CEHD Office of International Programs, with matching funds from the School, to support his attendance at the 25th Pediatric Work Physiology Conference. The biennial conference, supported by the University of Lille, will be held September 29 to October 3 in the Palais de l'Europe in Le Touquet Paris Plage on the Côte d'Opale, north of Paris. On alternate years, the conference is hosted by the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM).

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Steve Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in sport management at the School of Kinesiology, along with colleagues from Towson University and University of Miami has had two papers accepted for the 7th Annual Sport Marketing Association (SMA) conference. Ross and colleagues will present "The impact of brand extensions on the brand associations of a professional sports team" and "Brand Personalities across the Big Four: Positioning Leagues for Differentiation" at the conference in Cleveland, Ohio, October, 28-30, 2009.

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Steve Ross, Ph.D., associate professor of sport management, was quoted in two publications related to the fan attention garnered by Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, despite the negative publicity around Favre's on-again, off-again retirement. See the stories in Canadian Press and Brownsville Herald.

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Kinesiology doctoral candidate Jane Yank is presenting at the International Graphonomics Society meeting at the University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France, September 13-16, 2009. The topic of her talk is "Visuomotor Tracking in a Pursuit Loop-drawing Task," in which she discusses the effects of concurrent visual feedback on timing and fluidity in hand movements.

Ms. Yank co-authored the paper with Arend Van Gemmert, Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Ms. Yank's adviser is Dr. Michael Wade.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, announces the publication of an article he wrote with a colleague and a graduate student in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). Sebastien Villard, Ph.D., was an NIH-funded post-doc in APAL. Yawen Yu is a graduate student in APAL.

Stoffregen, T. A., Villard, S., & Yu, Y. (2009). Body sway at sea for two visual tasks and three stance widths. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, in press.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor of Kinesiology, will be in Copenhagen, Denmark from September 16 - 18, 2009 to participate in the International Consensus Conference on "Performance in Sports involving Intense Exercise." Thirty internationally acknowledged researchers together with representatives from the world of sport will take part in this consensus conference sponsored by the University of Copenhagen and Team Denmark, culminating in the production of a series of statements and recommendations that can be used by decision makers in sport, politics, and economy. Wiese-Bjornstal will be speaking on the roles of psychology and socioculture in sport injury risk, response, and recovery in high intensity athletes.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, and Jens Omli, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Child Development and former advisee of Wiese-Bjornstal, have been awarded a $212,000 grant over two years from the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. The grant will implement the International Sport Connection Soccer Coach Education program in collaboration with the Federation of Uganda Football Associations. Wiese-Bjornstal and Omli will travel to Uganda January 2010 and 2011 with a delegation of U.S. coaches. They will host a delegation of Ugandan coaches, who will travel to Minnesota for advanced training this October, and again in October 2010.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, announces the publication of an article he wrote with a research group from the Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at the Italian Institute of Technology. This work was performed during Konczak's single-semester leave last spring in Genova, Italy.

Sciutti A, Squeri V, Gori M, Masia L, Sandini G, & Konczak J. Predicted sensory feedback derived from motor commands does not improve haptic sensitivity. Experimental Brain Research, 2009 Sep 4. [Epub ahead of print]

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The Clinical and Translational Science Institute of the Academic Health Center has named Don Dengel, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, as the Director of Human Performance Core and Densitometry Services for the next year. Dengel will oversee the development of densitometry services for the Institute.

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Eric Brownlee, Ph.D., teaching specialist in sport management at the School of Kinesiology, had his paper Ambush Marketing in Major League Baseball: Are Loyal Fans Fooled? accepted for presentation at the 7th Annual Sport Marketing Association (SMA) conference in Cleveland, Ohio, October, 28-30, 2009.

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Jill Steinbach, undergraduate major in Kinesiology, is the featured employee in the September issue of the Recreational Sports Member newsletter. See Jill in Faces of Rec Sports

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Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, and former Tucker Center Program Associate Erin Becker will present their research "Coaching Youth Soccer as a Token Female" at the annual North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) conference in Ottowa, Ontario, November 4-7, 2009.

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President Bruinink's Welcome Back address is set against the backdrop of the new TCF Bank Stadium and features comments from two Kinesiology majors, Karen Heggernes and Kristina Hefty. The Welcome Back video highlights the new stadium's multiple uses, including future Kinesiology courses that will be held in the facility.

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Art Leon, M.D., professor of Kinesiolgy, has published an article with former doctoral advisee Ulf Bronas, Ph.D., research associate in the U of M School of Nursing.The article was based on data from Bronas' doctoral dissertation.

Treat-Jacobson, D., Bronas, U., & Leon, A. S. Efficacy of arm-ergometry versus treadmill exercise training to improve walking distance in patients with claudication. Vascular Medicine 2009, 14, 203-213.

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Lisa Kihl, Ph.D.,assistant professor of sport management at the School of Kinesiology announces a new publication with doctoral student Vicki Schull and former Tucker Center Fulbright Scholar Sarah Leberman:

Kihl, L. A., Leberman, S., & Schull, V. (2009). Stakeholder constructions of leadership in intercollegiate athletics. European Sport Management Quarterly. In press.

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Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, is currently featured on the School of Public Health's Health Disparities Working Group Web page. The organization's mission is to give greater visibility to health disparities research at the School of Public Health (SPH) and nationally, develop collaborations with faculty and community partners, and ensure that SPH students are well- trained to work in our diverse society.

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Michael Wade, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology, and his former graduate student, James Hackney Ph.D., have published a new article.

Hackney, J. M., Wade,M. G., Larson, C., Smith, J. P., & Rakow,J., Impairment in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructed subjects in adjusting ground reaction forces in running. Physical Therapy Theory and Practice, in press.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, has published two new articles in the field of movement science. Several of his current and former students also contributed to these articles.

Fu-Chen Chen and Ya-Wen Yu are kinesiology graduate students in working in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). Sebastien Villard, Ph.D., was an NIH-funded post-doc in APAL. Chunggon Kim, Ph.D., received his doctoral degree under Stoffregen's guidance. Drs. Ito and Bardy are (respectively) Japanese and French research collaborators.

His most recent articles follow.

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Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., exercise physiology instructor at the School of Kinesiology, presented on Muscle, Tendon and Bone Responses and Considerations Related to Exercise and Injury to OSI Physical Therapy Clinics from Minnesota and Wisconsin on August 26, 2009.

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Don Dengel, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, has a new publication:

Dengel, D. R., Hearst, M. O., Harmon, J. H., Forsyth, A., & Lytle, L. A. Does the built environment relate to the metabolic syndrome in adolescents? Health & Place, 15:946-951, 2009.

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Roberto Solbavarro, instructor for Foil Fencing, Saber Fencing and Intermediate Foil Fencing in the Physical Activity Program at the School of Kinesiology, has been chosen to coach the Women's Epee National Team.

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Rayla Allison, JD, lecturer, School of Kinesiology, will be inducted into the University of Texas at Arlington's Athletics Hall of Honor on September 12. Allison was a standout softball player at UTA from 1972-75 and was a Head Coach from 1983-89 compiling a record of 189-152-2. Read more at the UTA Web site.

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Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology (sport management), continues to be interviewed on the marketing implications and fan response to Brett Favre signing with the Vikings.

August 18 - Interviewed by Stan Turner of the Minnesota News Network

August 18 - NBC KARE 11 News (10pm): interviewed by Scott Goldberg

August 19 - Interviewed on WCCO Radio Morning News with Dave Lee

August 19 - Quoted by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal (story by John Vomhof Jr.)

August 21 - CBS WCCO 4 News (6pm): interviewed by Darcy Pohland

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Juergen Konczak Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, has published a new article, "Arbitrary visuomotor mapping during object manipulation in Parkinson's disease." The article, published in the international journal Movement Disorders, was written in collaboration with Dennis Nowak, Ph.D., a neurologist and former research fellow in Konczak's Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory. Nowak now heads the Kipfenberg Clinic, a neurological rehabilitation center near Munich, Germany.

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Kelli Blankenship, the 2009 Tucker Center McNair Scholar, will present work she has completed under associate director Nicole LaVoi's mentorship at the McNair Poster Presentation, Tuesday, July 28 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.at the Mississippi Room at Coffman. Her poster is titled, Not All Sport Parents Are "Out of Control": The Happy Side of Youth Sports.

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Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, has made the media rounds recently with interviews on cyclist Lance Armstrong's extraordinary physical abilities as he competes in this year's Tour de France. Two more articles were published today, one in MinnPost and on the U of M's homepage.

Ingraham's master's student, Greg Rhodes, was also interviewed for the U of M article.

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Arthur Leon, M.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology, and Ulf Bronas, Ph.D., Leon's former student and research associate in the School of Nursing, have published the article, "Dyslipidemia and risk of coronary heart disease: Role of lifestyle approaches for its management," in the July issue of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. The article was featured on the MDLinx.com site, which publishes the most up-to-date health information for medical professionals. Dr. Leon also published "Biological mechanisms for the cardioprotective effects of aerobic exercise" in the same issue of American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology gave a presentation recently at a four day international workshop on Musculoskeletal Systems and Computational Neuroscience. The workshop was organized by the Polytechnical University of Milan. Konczak presented on how well children recover their motor and cognitive function after removal of a tumor in the cerebellum.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, gave a keynote presentation at DCD VIII: Developmental Coordination Disorder International Conference, in Baltimore, MD. The title of her presentation was, "Motivating youth to be physically active: Strategies for children with developmental delay."

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The Tucker Center now has a multimedia archive of its past Distinguished Lectures available online. The archive includes streaming videos, powerpoint presentations and other informative resources from a variety of topics related to gender and sport.

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A new funded study begins this week in Kinesiology's Laboratory of Physical Hygiene and Exercise Science called HEARTEN (How exercise and relaxation impacts cardiovascular function in women with coronary artery disease). Ruth Lindquist, Ph.D., R.N., professor in the School of Nursing, is the PI on the study. Art Leon, M.D., professor in Kinesiology, and his former doctoral student Ulf Bronas, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Nursing, are co-PIs and will perform the cardiovascular assessments.

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Maria Camacho Miñano began her three-month residence as a visiting scholar in the Tucker Center on July 13. She will be working on studying US literature surrounding physical activity among adolescent girls and body image and physical activity, along with various other planned scholarly activities.

Dr. Camacho Miñano hails from Spain and is faculty member at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, was interviewed on KARE-11's 10 p.m. news July 8 on the physical renown of Lance Armstrong as he returns to the Tour de France after a 4-year absence. Also interviewed was Kinesiology M.A. student Greg Rhodes. Read the short interview Lance Armstrong 'genetic freak' says U of M professor and see the clip at http://tinyurl.com/kjcfm9.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, gave the Senior Distinguished Scholar Lecture at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity in Austin, TX. The title of her presentation was, "Children in sport and physical activity: What, so what, now what?"

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Art Leon, M.D., Kinesiology professor and director of the School's Laboratory of Physical Hygiene and Exercise Science, participated in the International XX Puijo Symposium in Kuopio, Finland, June 20-29. He presented on the cardiac benefits and risk of exercise, particularly in sudden death due to either occult coronary artery disease or in young athletes due to inherited cardiovascular conditions. Dr. Leon also chaired a session to select Outstanding Young Investigator.

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The 15th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA-15) will be held July 12-17, 2009, at the Continuing Education and Conference Center on the St. Paul campus. Hosted by the University's School of Kinesiology, the Center for Cognitive Sciences, and the Center for Clinical Movement Science, and the International Society for Ecological Psychology, this conference will bring together researchers from multidisciplinary backgrounds to discuss issues broadly related to perception and action. Session and poster topics cover a wide range of areas, such as robotics, human and animal cognition, human factors and tool use, speech-language production and perception, and dynamical systems modeling. The conference, which has attracted over 100 academics and professionals from around the world, is coordinated by School of Kinesiology professors Tom Stoffregen and Michael Wade.

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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in The Nation. The article "Sexism on Centre Court" talks about how sexualized images of female athletes are ineffective at marketing women's tennis and other women's sports.

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Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will take on sports' most grueling test this summer, looking to claim his eighth victory. Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D. lecturer in Kinesiology, says Armstrong's entire body is built for the bike.
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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in an Orange County Register article "Girls of Summer still making an impact." The article talks about the impact of the victory over the past decade and some of the continued barriers women face in big league sports.

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center and research associate in the School of Kinesiology, and Chelsey Thul, research assistant in the Tucker Center and graduate assistant in the Physical Activity Social and Behavioral Science area of the School of Kinesiology, were awarded the prestigious Staff Award and a Graduate Student Award respectively from CEHD's Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle at a ceremony on June 16, 2009.

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Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology (sport management), was interviewed on WCCO News Radio June 24 to discuss the possible signing of Brett Favre by the Vikings. Dr. Ross discussed the positive and negative impact on fans as well as the financial implications for the Vikings and its quest for a new stadium. Dr. Ross will also be appearing on WCCO's Saturday Afternoon with Steve Thomson on June 27.

Watch Dr. Ross discuss the Favre debate on the U News Service.

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology and associate director of the Tucker Center, has been invited to be part of a keynote panel at the Up2Us Regional Conference in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, June 30th. The conference is sponsored in part by the LA84 Foundation .

LaVoi will discuss the role of coaches in facilitating positive youth development. LaVoi is part of the Up2Us Research Advisory Committee and co-developed an Up2Us research paper on "Sports-based youth development for girls", which will be available by late summer.

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Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has co-authored an article just published in the American Journal of Public Health:
Melissa C. Nelson, Nicole I. Larson, Daheia Barr-Anderson, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, and Mary Story. Disparities in dietary intake, meal patterning, and home food environments among young adult nonstudents and 2- and 4-year college students. Am J Public Health 2009 99: 1216-1219.

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Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has just received a New Connections grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The two-year grant will support Barr-Anderson's work focusing on perceived and objective environmental influences on physical activity among high school girls. The New Connections grant will complement Barr-Anderson's NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) grant to study environmental influences of overweight and obesity among African American adolescent girls.

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Arthur S. Leon, M.D., professor in Kinesiology, will be attending the 20th International Puijo Symposium in Kuopio, Finland, June 23-26. He is an invited speaker and will chair a session at the symposium. The conference theme is "Physical Exercise in Health Promotion and Medical Care."

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As part of its celebration of Gay Pride Week, the Walker Arts Center has invited Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, to give a post-screening critique of the must-see new documentary Training Rules. Professor Kane—an internationally recognized scholar in the field of sport and gender—will also lead what promises to be a lively Q&A discussion with the audience on this groundbreaking film which explores the impact of homophobia in women's sports. Oscar-nominated director Dee Mosbacher's (Straight from the Heart) documentary focuses on student-athlete Jennifer Harris's 2006 lawsuit against Penn State University and women's basketball coach Rene Portland, who had three strict training rules during her 26-year tenure—no drinking, no drugs, and no lesbians. The event takes place on Wednesday, June 24, at 7:00 p.m. at the Walker Arts Center's Cinema auditorium and lecture hall. Tickets are $6 for Walker members and $8 for the general public.

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At the NASSM conference in Columbia, SC, last week, Stephen Ross, Ph.D., presented several papers along with Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., Eric Brownlee, Ph.D., and doctoral candidate Heather Maxwell and doctoral student Clinton Warren. The University of Minnesota was well represented at the conference by current faculty and students as well as former students (Pat Walsh, Ph.D. 2008; Jina Bang, Ph.D. 2007; and James Chien, Ph.D. 2006).

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Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology (sport management), was recently named a Research Fellow in the North American Society of Sport Management (NASSM). Ross was also promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure this spring.

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The School of Kinesiology's May session study abroad course "Global Sport Management," led by Jo Ann Buysse, Ph.D., education specialist, is on a trip to Italy where students will be exploring the relationship between globalization and sport. You can follow their experiences and adventures via blogger, twtter, and flickr.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, has been elected as the next president of The American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE), and will serve a 3-year term on the executive board. AAKPE is an honorary organization composed of Fellows who have made significant contributions to the field of kinesiology. To be inducted into membership, a person must meet rigorous criteria for scholarship and professional service. The dual purpose of AAKPE is to encourage and promote the study and educational applications of the art and science of human movement and physical activity and to honor by election to its membership persons who have contributed significantly to the study and application of the art and science of human movement and physical activity.

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Juergen Konczak, professor in Kinesiology, has just published two articles as part of his ongoing collaboration with a group of neurologists at the University Medical Centre Essen, Germany.

Kronenbuerger M, Konczak J, Ziegler W, Buderath P, Frank B, Coenen VA, Kiening K, Reinacher P, Noth J, Timmann D. Balance and Motor Speech Impairment in Essential Tremor. In Cerebellum. 2009 May 19. [Epub ahead of print]

Timmann D, Konczak J, Ilg W, Donchin O, Hermsdörfer J, Gizewski E, Schoch B.
Current advances in lesion-symptom mapping of the human cerebellum. . In Neuroscience 2009 Jan 26. [Epub ahead of print]

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D. professor in Kinesiology has published an article with Jane Yank, Ph.D. candidate in Kinesiology.

"The Postural Responses of Adults Who Are Blind to a Moving Environment" by Thomas A. Stoffregen, Kiyohide Ito, Philip Hove, Jane Redfield Yank, and Benoit G. Bardy, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness.

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Katie Anderson, M.A. candidate in Kinesiology, has been awarded the 2009 Eloise M. Jaeger Scholarship for Students at the Tucker Center. Anderson's research interests focus on youth physical activity and sedentary behaviors.

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Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, was quoted in a May 17 Star Tribune article on summer fitness activities. Read the article at the Star Tribune.

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Kinesiology undergraduate student, Heather Dorniden was awarded a President's Student Leadership and Service Award along with a University of Minnesota Alumni Association Leadership Award. Her academic and athletic accomplishments are detailed in the UMNews article: Big fish, big pond.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, published in collaboration with two colleagues: Bruno Mantel and Benoit Bardy, Ph.D., at the University of Montpellier-1, France. Mantel is a student working toward his Ph.D. under the supervision of Bardy and Stoffregen.

Mantel, B., Bardy, B. G., & Stoffregen, T. A. (2009). Locomotor assessment of whether an object is reachable. Ecological Psychology, in press.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, will be speaking at the Minnesota Athletic Trainers' Association Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium in St. Cloud on May 16. Her talk is on "Using effective interaction skills in sports medicine practice."

Wiese-Bjornstal also will have an article published based on her presentation at the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium in Washington D.C., January 2009: Wiese-Bjornstal, D.M. (in press). Sport injury and college athlete health across the lifespan. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport.

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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, was featured on Dave Zirin's XM radio show, The Edge of Sports, responding to the question "does sex sell women's sport?"

Zirin was Press Action's 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year and writes about sports for the Nation Magazine, is a columnist for SLAM Magazine, the Progressive, and a regular op-ed writer for the Los Angeles Times.

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology and associate director of the Tucker Center, will give a talk to the St. Cloud chapter of the AAUW on Tuesday, May 12. She will discuss research findings from the 2007 Tucker Center Research Report, "Developing Physically Active Girls." For more information on the event, see the article in sctimes.com .

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Senior kinesiology student Jennifer Ojiaku was profiled in UMNews. A video and write up are available at On the run: Senior kinesiology student looks at exercise and rehabilitation from every angle.

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Rayla Allison, J.D., lecturer in Sport Management, was interviewed May 6 by WCCO-TV on the business worth that Brett Favre could bring to the Vikings.

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Julie Hughes, Ph.D. candidate in Kinesiology, has been awarded a prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2009-2010. These fellowships are awarded each year to a select number of students in their final year of study to enable them to devote full-time effort to dissertation research and writing.

Hughes is an exercise physiology student pursuing research in identifying modifiable and hormonal risk factors for osteoporosis in older men. Moira Petit, Ph.D, associate professor, serves as Hughes' adviser.

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Nickie Chang, Ph. D., Michael Wade, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, and Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, have a recent paper to be published in the Journal of Motor Behavior. Chang is a former School of Kinesiology Ph.D. student. Wade served as Chang's adviser.

Chang, C.-H., Wade, M. G., & Stoffregen, T. A. (2009). Perceiving affordances for aperture passage in an environment-person-person system. Journal of Motor Behavior, in press.

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Carol Leitschuh, Ph.D., research associate in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical this semester at Palacky University in the Czech Republic, gave an invited presentation on April 9th to faculty and graduate students of the Psychology Department at The University of New York at Prague. The title of her talk was "The value of a physically active life: Infancy - youth." Leitschuh also gave this presentation April 28th to faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Pedagogy at Palacky University.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical in Geneva, Italy, gave two invited presentations in France on May 4 and 5. In Paris he presented to the College de France, one of the oldest premier research institutions in the country. The title of his talk was "The cerebellum and motor control: Lessons from how well children recover from injury to the cerebellum."

At the University of Dijon, Konczak spoke to an interdisciplinary group of musicians, pediatricians, and movement scientists on "Learning how to play the violin: insights into how children acquire complex motor skills."

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Beth Lewis, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has been awarded an NIH grant for her proposal entitled "Efficacy of an Exercise Intervention for the Prevention of PostPartum Depression." The grant is for $389,000 over two years.

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Don Dengel, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, will present a lecture at the Medical School on the Duluth campus titled "The Decline of Arterial Health in Children: The Roles of Obesity and Physical Activity. The lecture is scheduled for May 8 at noon in the UMD School of Medicine. For more information, see Medical School Duluth Seminar Series.

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Dr. Art Leon, professor in Kinesiology, and his former student Ulf Bronas, Ph.D., research associate in the School of Nursing, have had their article, "Hypertension: Lifestyle Modifications for its Prevention and Management," accepted by the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. The article is the centerpiece of the journal's issue on "Lifestyle Management of High Blood Pressure." The journal's reviewer commented, "It is, in a word, 'superb.' The manuscript does exactly what I hoped for--which is provide in one comprehensive review the scientific basis for why lifestyle interventions are so effective both in helping to prevent and manage high blood pressure."

The manuscript will be published in the November-December 2009 issue.

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Tommy Valentini, doctoral student in sport and exercise psychology and advisee of Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center associate director, will be the Head Men's Tennis Coach at Gustavus Adolphus College starting fall of 2009. Valentini will take the helm from Steve Wilkinson who is retiring from coaching after 39 years. Valentini will also help run the popular Tennis & Life Camps at Gustavus. Congratulations!

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Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has published the following article with graduate student Tim Richardson in the recent issue of the Journal of Sport Management: Kihl, L. A., & Richardson, T. 'Fixing the Mess': A grounded theory of a men's basketball coaching staff's suffering as a result of academic corruption. Journal of Sport Management, 23 (3), pp 278-304.

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Alisha Baker, a sophomore working in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has received a UROP award for her research project, "Posture and locomotion influence perception of a novel affordance". Her supervisor is Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D, professor in Kinesiology.

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Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has had her manuscript "Parental report vs. child perception of familial support: which is more associated with child physical activity and television use?" accepted by the Journal of Physical Activity & Health. Publication date is pending.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical this semester in Geneva, Italy, gave an invited presentation on April 22 to clinicians at a teaching hospital in Trier, Germany. The title of his talk was "Funktionelle Erholung nach Kleinhirnschaedigung (Functional recovery after injury to the cerebellum)."

Results from his research laboratory and from his international collaboration were recently published in Journal of Motor Behavior and Gait and Posture.

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The Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Health (Moira Petit, Ph.D., lab director) has had an active and eventful year. Several Kinesiology Ph.D. students presented posters or oral presentations at the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research meeting last fall, including: Susan Novotny (oral presentation and poster), Kristy Popp, Amanda Thieschafer, Julie Hughes (plenary poster), and Sue Lynn Peart. Beth Kaufman and Julie Cousins will be presenting their work at the American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM) meeting in Seattle this May.

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The Center for Clinical Movement Science, whose membership includes many faculty and graduate students in the School of Kinesiology, held its first Research Day on Friday, Aprli 17. Photos of the event may be seen at the CCMS Web site.

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Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, will be presenting on Thursday, April 23, at the Twin Cities suburban Centennial Soccer Association's Coaches Training Seminar on two topics: Nutritional Considerations for Sports Performance for Soccer Practice, Games and Tournaments and Maturation and Sports Performance in Soccer.

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Star Tribune sports columnist Rachel Blount interviewed Kinesiology lecturer Nicole LaVoi Ph.D. for the article Studies blow the whistle on lack of women coaches." Blount also mentioned tomorrow's Tucker Center Spring Distinguished Lecture by Michael Messner, Ph.D., University of Southern California professor of sociology and gender studies. Professor Messner will be treating the issue in his lecture, You Gotta Be Tough: Challenges and Strategies of Female Coaches in Youth Sports.

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Melissa Wong, an undergraduate working with Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D. in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has received an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant, for her research on Microslips in a Manual Placing Task.

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, spoke to members of the Prior Lake Rotary Club on April 15 on behalf of the U of M Alumni Association. LaVoi's talk focused on the work of the Tucker Center including her sport parent research and barriers that prevent girls from being physically active.

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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, will give an invited presentation titled "Media Representations of Sportswomen in the 21st Century" at the NCAA-sponsored Gender Equity & Issues Forum in San Diego, CA on April 27.

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Chelsey Thul, research assistant in Kinesiology, gave a workshop titled Reducing Physical Inactivity and Promoting Active Living: From the Voices of East African Adolescent Girls on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at the 2009 Girls Coalition of Minnesota's Annual Conference.

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Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, will be presenting at the upcoming North American Society for Sport Management conference, May 27-May 30, in Columbia, SC.

Lisa Kihl and co-author Kathy Babiak (University of Michigan) will be presenting a paper titled "Stakeholder management and corporate social responsibility in professional sport." Kihl will also be presenting at a symposium titled "Civic Engagement: Educating Citizens through Sport Management."

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport in the School of Kinesiology, published an article in the April issue of Minnesota Health Care News titled, Motivating girls to be physically active: Ingredients for optimizing health benefits. Practical strategies for meeting this goal were couched within the acronym CARE—develop Competence, provide opportunity for Autonomy or choice, promote positive adult and peer Relationships, and maximize Enjoyment and minimize anxiety.

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center, returned to Carleton College to give an invited workshop to student-athletes, coaches and community members titled Mental Toughness Training for Peak Performance.

The workshop was paid in part by a grant from the NCAA. LaVoi was Carleton's Assistant Women's Tennis Coach (1991-1993) before becoming the Head Coach at Wellesley College in 1994.

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On Friday, April 3, before a small audience in Cooke Hall, graduating students in the School of Kinesiology Honors Program gave public talks and presentations concerning their Honors Research Projects.

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Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, will be a guest on the radio show "It's Your Health" on Monday, April 6, from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on station KMOJ, 89.9 FM. She will discuss overweight and obesity in the African American community and her upcoming research project, "Environmental influences on physical activity and diet among African American adolescent girls."

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, gave an invited colloquium in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, on the topic of "Postural instability and motion sickness" on March 25.

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Michael Messner, the Tucker Center's Spring 2009 Distinguished Lecturer, recently published an op-ed, "Let's have more crying in baseball," in the Pasadena Star-News.

A University of Southern California professor of sociology and gender studies, Messner's presentation, titled "You Gotta Be Tough": Challenges and Strategies of Female Coaches in Youth Sports, is based in part on his just-published book It's All For the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports. The lecture will take place on April 22 from 7-9:00 pm at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center on the U of M's West Bank.

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Several members of the School of Kinesiology and the Tucker Center participated in this year's College of Education and Human Development Research Day poster displays on March 24.

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Jo Ann Buysse, Ph.D., education specialist in the School of Kinesiology, is featured in a Star Tribune article for her volunteer work with The Melpomene Institute for Women's Health Research and the Brian Coyle Community Center in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood where each Sunday she works with Somali high school and college girls on their basketball skills. Buysse is a former collegiate women's basketball coach and now directs the undergraduate Sports Management Program at the U of MN.

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Austin Calhoun, Ph.D. student and Tucker Center research assistant, presented a poster, "Examining Online Intercollegiate Head Coaches' Biographies: Reproducing or Challenging Heteronormativity and Heterosexism?" [abstract | poster] at the Sport, Sexuality, and Culture Conference, in Ithaca, NY, March 18-20, 2009. The poster was done in collaboration with Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and Associate Director of the Tucker Center.

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Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, with colleague Elizabeth Daniels (Visiting Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon), will co-author a chapter in the forthcoming book The Sexualization of Girls, published by the American Psychological Association. Their chapter will be titled, "The Solution and Problem: Sports Participation for Girls and The Sexualization of Women Athletes".

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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in a New York Times article "Putting a Price on a Title Run Stirs a Debate." The article talks about Oklahoma women's basketball all-American Courtney Paris' statement saying she would repay her scholarship in full if her team failed to win a national championship this year.

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Jo Ann Buysse, Ph.D., was featured on an MPR segment March 19. She volunteers each Sunday to work with a group of Somali high school and college women who get together to play basketball at the Brian Coyle Center in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Pictures, along with more information, are available at Minnesota Public Radio.

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Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, is quoted in a Pioneer Press article titled, "A generation on the sidelines: Why Minnesota kids are leaving school sports behind."

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Doctoral student Tommy Valentini will have a chapter titled “Love-Love: A Fresh Start at Finding Value and Virtue in Tennis” in the soon-to-be-released book Tennis and Philosophy. The book is part of the Philosophy and Popular Culture series published by the University Press of Kentucky. Valentini’s chapter discusses the potential of sport to contribute to athlete moral development and the importance of a philosophy that prioritizes winning below other aspects of competition that are within an athlete’s control—namely effort, sportsmanship, and positive attitude. Valentini is advised by Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, Associate Director of the Tucker Center.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport in the School of Kinesiology, gave the keynote presentation for the First Annual Girls in Sport Symposium, sponsored by the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The title of her presentation was, “Promoting a ‘love of the game:’ Optimizing girls’ physical, social, and psychological assets through physical activity.” Weiss will also give a keynote presentation at the annual conference of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) in April titled, “Caring, compassionate, competent: Coaching for positive youth development through sport.”

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The research of Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, is the subject of an article in the News Scan section of the April, 2009, Scientific American. Stoffregen's controversial theories on postural instability as the cause of motion sickness are featured.

In addition, Prof. Stoffregen has had the following article accepted by Motor Control. Two of the authors, Russ Giveans and Jane Yank, are his doctoral students.Sebastien Villard spent worked with him as a post-doctoral student.

Stoffregen, T. A., Giveans, M. R., Villard, S., Yank, J. R., & Shockley, K. (2009). Interpersonal postural coordination on rigid and non-rigid surfaces.

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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, will be a presenter at a So You Have an Interdisciplinary Center? What's Next? on April 13. The workshop will focus on challenges of sustaining established and successful interdisciplinary centers at the University. Dr. Kane will share insights on her experience as director of the internationally recognized Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport.

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Jill Haom, kinesiology B.S. student, has been awarded the Diversity of Views and Experience (DOVE) Fellowship for 2009-2010. Jill will be entering the M.A. in Kinesiology with emphasis on sport and exercise psychology next fall. She will be working with Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology. Jill worked last summer with Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., associate director of the Tucker Center as a Minnesota McNair Scholar, where she participated in the project, "The Physical Activity of East African Girls," and presented a poster on perceived barriers to physical activity.

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Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, was recently quoted in "The Selling of Candace Parker", a feature story from ESPN: The Magazine.

Kane is quoted as saying, "Women athletes are more likely to be marketed as sexy than as competent."

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Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., gave a hockey parent workshop on March 7, 2009 held in conjunction with a girls' hockey clinic. The first-ever clinic and parent workshop was done in conjunction with the WCHA Women's Hockey Tournament, organized by the U of M Sport Business Institute.

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Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, is featured in the March 3 issue of the American College of Sport Medicine's (ACSM) Sports Medicine Bulletin for her involvement in the organization's Leadership & Diversity Training Program.

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Beth Lewis, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has been cited in several news venues highlighting her research on "standing desks" for elementary school students including ABC World News, The New York Times and Minnesota Daily.

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Don Dengel, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, has published two articles with former graduate students Tyler Bosch (M.A. 2007), Chris Kaufman (Ph.D. 2006), Eric Williamson (M.Ed. 2002), Tom Olson (Ph.D. 2004), and Jennifer Tracy (M.A. 2006).

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Eric Brownlee, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology, has had his abstract on "The Effectiveness of Official Sponsor Designation: The Case of Ambush Marketing in Major League Baseball (MLB)" accepted for presentation this spring. He will be presenting at the 2009 North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) conference in Columbia, SC, on May 27-30.

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University of Minnesota sport management M.Ed. student and three-time hockey Olympian Angela Ruggiero appeared on NBC's Today Show this morning promoting the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. The video of Angela's appearance is available online at MSNBC.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology has published two new journal articles.

Stoffregen, T. A., Yang, C.-M., Giveans, M. R., Flanagan, M., & Bardy, B. G. (2009). Movement in the perception of an affordance for wheelchair locomotion. Ecological Psychology, 21, 1-36.

Faugloire, E., Stoffregen, T. A., & Bardy, B. G. (2009). (De)Stabilization of required and spontaneous postural dynamics with learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 170-187.

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Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, is the lead author on a newly published paper that appears today in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity and may be the first to investigate the relationship between TV and diet over the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport in the School of Kinesiology, recently published two research articles that are referenced as follows:

Weiss, M.R. (2008). "Field of Dreams" Sport as a context for youth development. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 79, 434-439.

Stuntz, C.P., & Weiss, M.R. (2009). Achievement goal orientations and motivational outcomes in youth sport: The role of social orientations. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10, 255-262.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, has had a collaborative paper with colleagues from Israel (Ben Gurion University, Negev) and Germany (University of Essen, University of Tuebingen, and EKN Munich) accepted by Neuroscience. Titled "Current Advances in Lesion-Symptom Mapping of the Human Cerebellum," the paper summarizes the methodology of MRI-based lesion symptom mapping of the human cerebellum and discusses its potential for gaining insights into cerebellar function.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology, has been appointed to the 2009 Science Board of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Executive Director Melissa Johnson wrote, "Dr. Wiese-Bjornstal was selected to serve on this board due to the significant contributions she has made to the research and science of physical activity, fitness, and health. The PCPFS staff and council members look to this board for recommendations in the areas of program development and evaluation."

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Thomas Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology, spoke to 80 second grade students at Brimhall Elementary School in Roseville about his research on "Body balance at sea." Stoffregen's presentation fit into their curriculum; the 2nd grade is doing a science unit on "Balance and Motion."

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Eric Brownlee, Ph.D., lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, will be presenting at the 22nd Annual Sport & Recreation Law Association (SRLA) conference in San Antonio, Texas, on March 5-7, 2009. He co-authored the paper, "The Practical Application of Dram Shop Laws: Rating Major Professional Sport League Alcohol Policies," with Marion Hambrick at the University of Louisville.

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Beth Lewis, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, is featured in an interview on the U of M Moment blog discussing "Staying Fit in the Cold." When the temperature outside drops so do physical activity levels, and Dr. Lewis gives tips and encouragement to find ways to stay fit through the winter months. Listen to the interview.

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The 2009 NCAA Scholarly Colloquium will take place January 13-14 during the annual NCAA convention in Washington, DC. The theme for the colloquium is, "Paying the Price: Is Excellence in Sport Compatible with Good Health?" Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology, has co-organized this second annual colloquium. An article featuring the colloquium appears in The NCAA News.

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The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, housed in the School of Kinesiology, is featured in this week's edition of the U of M News Wire.

U of M’s One-of-a-kind Tucker Center promotes research around females in sport
U of M News Wire (Minn.) Dec. 11, 2008

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Calhoun and LaVoi's Abstract Accepted to Sport, Sexuality, and Culture Conference

Austin Calhoun, PhD student and Tucker Center Research Assistant, and Dr. Nicole LaVoi, Associate Director of the Tucker Center, were accepted to present a poster at the Sport, Sexuality, and Culture Conference to be held March 18-20, 2009 in Ithaca, N.Y. The research is titled Examining Online Intercollegiate Head Coaches' Biographies: Reproducing or Challenging Heteronormativity and Heterosexism?.

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Don Dengel, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has just received notice of a new publication that he co-authored in Cancer.

Thomas, I. H., Donohue, J. E., Ness, K. K., Dengel, D. R., Baker, K. S,, & Gurney, J. G. Bone mineral density in young adult survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer (in press). 2008;113:3248-56.

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Alum Ulf Bronas (Ph.D., 2007), a graduate in exercise physiology under Professor Art Leon, is also featured In the current issue of the University's Wellness Works magazine.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, and David Goodman, professor of kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C., received a $90,000 grant over three years from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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The School of Kinesiology and the Tucker Center are highly visible in the current issue of the University's Wellness Works magazine. Beth Lewis Ph.D., associate professor in Kinesiology has the feature article on pages 3-5 and Maureen Weiss Ph.D., The First Tee project is featured on page 21. In addition, Weiss is featured as a "Face of Wellness" on page 8.

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Moira Petit, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Kinesiology, has been awarded an Obesity Consortium of Minnesota Pilot & Feasibility Award. The award was for her project titled “Bone and cardiovascular health in obese adolescents following bariatric surgery." The grant is in the amount of $50,000 over a two-year span.

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A recent story on KARE 11 news featured the Stand Up for Learning project, which includes research conducted by Assistant Professor Beth Lewis and Associate Professor Donald Dengel (both from the School of Kinesiology).

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Kristy Popp, School of Kinesiology Ph.D. student (adviser, Moira Petit), is the principal investigator on a just-awarded $2,500 National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) survey project award titled "Bone Geometry Strength and Biomechanical Changes."

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Carol Leitschuh, Ph.D. research associate in the Department of Kinesiology, was invited to present in September at Italy's Universita Degli Sudi Roma "La Sapienza," Dipartimento di Psicologia (Psychology Department). Carol's presentation was entitled "Movement of Babies Born Premature." In addition, productive meetings were held with graduate faculty and students on the progress of their research on assessing infants, toddlers, and preschoolers using Carol's tool for monitoring movement skill development at these very young ages.

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Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., professor and co-director of the Tucker Center in the School of Kinesiology, gave a research lecture—the Margaret Jo Safrit Lecture in Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 3, 2008.

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Nicole LaVoi, associate director of the Tucker Center and education specialist in the School of Kinesiology, will be featured in an article on overscheduled children in the fall volume of Stemwinder, a publication for 3M employees and retirees in the Twin Cities.

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Stephen Ross, professor of kinesiology, is quoted n the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Through most of September, as the Milwaukee Brewers were looking more like a team heading home for October, the business side of the organization was making plans for a playoff run. “As long as the team is winning, it’s good," said Stephen. “They have all of these designs done ahead of time with the printer. The turnaround time is quick. But if the Brewers go three and out, people are going to be a little less willing to buy them or wear them."

Brewers struck fast on merchandising
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisc.) Sept. 30, 2008

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Lecturer Stacy Ingraham (School of Kinesiology) warns City Pages readers of the dangers of mixed martial arts, particularly for women.

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Elizabeth Spletzer, kinesiology education specialist and coordinator of the PE initial licensure program, was awarded the prestigious Eloise M. Jaeger Award by the University of Minnesota Women's Physical Education Alumnae Association at their annual breakfast September 27.

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Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi will be part of the Sport & Morality Symposium at the annual Association of Moral Education conference held in November at the University of Notre Dame.

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Professor Tom Stoffregen (Kinesiology) has had two articles accepted for publication and three recent publications on findings from research supported by his NIH, NSF, and/or European grants.

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Don Dengel, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has published an article on diet revision in overweight children.

Kaufman, C. L., Kaiser, D. R., Kelly, A. S., Dengel, J. L., Steinberger, J., & Dengel, D. R. (2008). Diet revision in overweight children: Effect on autonomic and vascular function. Clinical Autonomic Research, 18, 105-108.

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Professor Jürgen Konczak (Kinesiology) has just published two journal articles.

• "Increased basal-ganglia activation performing a non-dystonia-related task in focal dystonia" was published in European Journal of Neurology, 2008, vol. 15, pp. 831-838. Authors are M.Obermann, O.Yaldizi, A. de Greiff, J. Konczak, M.L. Lachenmayer, F. Tumczak, A.R. Buhl, N. Putzki, J. Vollmer-Haase, E.R. Gizewski, H.C. Diener, and M. Maschke.


• "Haptic perception of object curvature in Parkinson's Disease" was published in Public Library of Science ONE, 2008. Authors are Jürgen Konczak, Kuan-yi Li, Paul J. Tuite, and Howard Poizner (Kuan-yi Li is a doctoral student of Jürgen's.)

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Nicole Lavoi, associate director of the Tucker Center, has several pieces of good news to report:

• This fall Nicole and research assistant Chelsey Rodd are writing a position paper in partnership with Team Up for Youth on sports-based youth development for underserved girls. Team Up for Youth is a nonprofit organization that helps create after-school sports opportunities for girls and boys.

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Stephen Ross, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, recently discussed whether naming rights for sporting venues are worth the cost to the brand.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, associate professor of kinesiology, has been selected to be an associate editor for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES).

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Maureen Weiss, professor of Kinesiology, will join representative faculty of CIC universities (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) in visiting five universities in China (Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Xian, Shanghai).

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Lecturer Stacey Ingraham (Kinesiology) suggests eliminating pre-workout stretching and using the time for more exercising instead.

Get the most out of your workout in the shortest amount of time
Daily Herald (Ill.) Sept. 15, 2008

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Beth Lewis, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, was quoted today in an article on an innovative classroom for elementary students in Marine on St. Croix. Kids in this classroom have "stand-up workstations" where they can stand or sit on high stools. Beth will be studying how many more calories students will burn at their workstations compared to being seated at traditional desks.

Standing up to the task
Star Tribune (Minn.) Sept. 10, 2008

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The American Society of Neuroscience has chosen a poster presentation by Professor Juergen Konczak (School of Kinesiology), Heidi Vander Velden (M.A., kinesiology, '06), and L. Jaeger to be included in the media materials of their upcoming Annual Conference, November 15-19 in Washington, DC.

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Don Dengel, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, recently published an article with three of his former graduate students: Andrea Thelen (M.A., 2006), Aaron Kelly (Ph.D., 2004) and Eric Williamson (M.Ed., 2002). The article is based on Andrea's thesis.

Thelen, A.M., Kelly, A.S., Williamson, E.B., and Dengel, D.R. (2008) Examining the time course of endothelium-independent dilation by nitroglycerin. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, Vol. 34, No. 8, pp. 1217-1220.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology, was elected to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Science Board for 2009-2012. The board's activities include review and input on the long-standing President's Challenge program as well as many other initiatives related to physical activity and health across the lifespan. The board includes ten scholars who are selected because of their significant contributions to the research and science of physical activity, fitness, health, and sports.

Congratulations Diane!

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Assistant Professor Beth Lewis (Kinesiology) was interviewed recently by WCCO's Jason DeRusha on the topic of how many calories are used when exercising on a treadmill or elliptical machine.

Good Question: Do Treadmill Calorie Counts Work?
WCCO (Minn.) August 18, 2008

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Don Dengel, professor in the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in an August 9 New York Times article covering Olympic boxing. Dengel talks about the dangers of fluid loss as a measure for rapidly losing weight.

Boxer collapses while trying to make weight
New York Times (N.Y.) August 9, 2008

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Stephen Ross, Kinesiology assistant professor, is quoted in the Opinion Exchange section of the August 3 Star Tribune. The article focuses on the viewership of the upcoming Beijing Summer Olympics. Stephen is also quoted in Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the new high-tech sporting goods used by Olympic athletes in this year's Games.

The Olympics: A modern spectacle
Star Tribune (Minn.) August 3, 2008

Olympic athletes will put many high-tech devices to test
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wis.) August 3, 2008

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Assistant professor Beth Lewis (Kinesiology) and her recent study on the effectiveness of telephone exercise coaching are mentioned in this article on e-mail fitness programs.

You've got mail - Now get moving
MSNBC.com (July 22, 2003)

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Jens Omli, Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate, and Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., associate director of The Tucker Center, have had their manuscript, "The perfect storm: Background anger in youth sports" accepted for publication in the Journal of Sport Behavior. Expected publication date is early 2009.

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Thomas Smith, Kinesiology research associate, has been invited to present a paper to the First World Conference on E-Learning, in Las Vegas, Nov 17-21, 2008. His paper is titled "Benchmarking Social Cooperation in Web-Based versus Face-to-Face Learning Environments."

In addition, Smith has been appointed Chair of the Professional Standards and Education (PSE) Standing Committee of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), a committee that accredits ergonomist certifying bodies and provides certification guidelines to graduate-level ergonomics/human factors (E/HF) education programs worldwide.

Congratulations, Thomas!

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Professor Stacy Ingraham (Kinesiology) comments in an article on getting the most out of fitness routines.

How to make your workout quick and sweaty
U.S. News & World Report (D.C.) June 25, 2008

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One of our sport management students was quoted in an article on how students are saving on gas by riding scooters.

High gas prices have scooter sales booming
MPR (Minn.) June 7, 2008

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Kinesiology professors Thomas Stoffregen, Juergen Konczak, and Maureen Weiss gave invited presentations at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 4-8. Several of their graduate students attended as well and presented at poster sessions/symposiums: Nicole Bolter, Jennifer Bhalla, Melissa Price (students of Professor Weiss), Azizah Jor'dan, Ken Yoshida (students of Professor Michael Wade), and Russ Giveans (student of Professor Stoffregen).

Stoffregen and students Jor'dan, Yoshida, and Giveans presented in a symposium proposed and organized by Dr. Michael Wade, who was unable to attend the conference.

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Carol Nielsen, executive secretary in Kinesiology, appeared on KSTP's Twin Cities Live yesterday to talk about her experiences as an Explore Minnesota celebrity for the Mainstreets Minnesota promotion. See Carol's interview at this link:

http://www.twincitieslive.com/
(Click on Tuesday, June 10, then the forward button to "Lynn and Carol: Minnesota Mainstreets")

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Carol Nielsen, executive secretary in Kinesiology, is a film star for Explore Minnesota! Carol and her friend, Lynn Lane, who works in Carlson School of Management, were chosen last fall to star in the promotional campaign "Explore Minnesota -- Mainstreets." You can see Carol and Lynn in a commercial currently on local channels, or you can watch their videos online.

Next Tuesday, July 10, Carol and Lynn will appear on KSTP-TV's Channel 5 Twin Cities Live to talk about their experience making the videos. The show airs from 3 to 4 p.m.

Congratulations, Carol!

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Professor Mary Jo Kane (Kinesiology) is quoted in a recent article on Title IX.

Examining the progress and problems of Title IX
East Valley Tribune (Ariz.) May 31, 2008

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Professor Mary Jo Kane (Kinesiology) recently discussed how the media portrays women athletes in a Pioneer Press interview.

Bob Sansevere: Questions with Mary Jo Kane, University of Minnesota professor, on the portrayal of female athletes
Pioneer Press (Minn.) June 3, 2008

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The University and the School of Kinesiology are well-represented in the most recent issue of the Journal of Sport Management (2008, May) with two articles. "Toward a Grounded Theory of Student-Athlete Suffering and Dealing With Academic Corruption" is authored by kinesiology professor Lisa A. Kihl and her graduate students Tim Richardson and Charles Campisi; the second article, "An Empirical Assessment of Spectator-Based Brand Equity," is authored by kinesiology professors Stephen D. Ross and Keith C. Russell, along with former Ph.D. student Hyejin Jina Bang.

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Rich Weinberg, Distinguished University Teaching Professor of child psychology in the Institute of Child Development and Director, Center for Early Education and Development, and Mary Jo Kane, Professor and Chair, School of Kinesiology, and Director, Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, will be on the "Good Enough Moms" (GEMS) radio show on FM 107, Sunday, June 1. The radio show will feature Weinberg and Kane talking about children's involvement in sport. A story on GEMS, a show that explores the many facets of motherhood in today's world, can be found at UMNNews.

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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, professor in the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in an article on the prevalence of injury in girls' organized sports.

Equal (and risky) opportunity
Deleware Online (Del.) April 29, 2008

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Mary Jo Kane, professor and chair of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, was quoted in an article about Annika Sorenstam and other female athletes in the Greensboro News-Record.

Annika Sorenstam plays with class, grace
Greensboro News-Record (N.C.) May 23, 2008

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Carol Leitschuh, research associate and lecturer in adapted physical education in the School of Kinesiology, has received a coveted Fulbright Award for 2009. She will be teaching and conducting research in the Czech Republic. According to the Fulbright office, Leitschuh is the first Kinesiology academic in the United States to win the award.

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Jeannie Larson, Ph.D. student in Education-Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies (Kinesiology), was featured in an article in the Star Tribune today on horticulture therapy. Jeannie has been running a therapeutic horticulture program through the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum that uses plants to "improve the body, lift the spirit, and stimulate the mind." Li-jung Lin is also mentioned in the story and has been working with Jeannie in the program. Li-jung is also a Ph.D. student in Education-RPLS.

Program seeds a path to healing
Star Tribune (Minn.) May 14, 2008

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Professor Don Dengel (Kinesiology) has published an article with former students Thomas Olson (Ph.D.) and Jennifer Tracy (M.A.) in the recent issue of Open Sports Medicine Journal on "Validity of a Low-Flow Pneumotach and Portable Metabolic Measurement System." Download article [.pdf].

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Mary Jo Kane, professor and chair of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, is quoted as an expert in women's sports in a recent New York Times article.

The uneven playing field
New York Times (N.Y.) May 11, 2008

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Carol Leitschuh, Kinesiology lecturer and research associate, can count published poet among her community engagement activities. In April, Carol's book Harmony with God, Choral Prayer and Preparation was published by Liturgical Press at St John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. Each poem is complemented by an original choral refrain composed by Dr. Lynn Trapp. The refrain is vocal pedagogy and spiritual enhancement for all involved: directors, singers, and instrumentalist.

This month, Carol's prayer Spirit of Unity is the text used in a commissioned musical arrangement for drums and organ. On May 10, Dr. Kathy Romey in the School of Music conducted a 250-person choir at St. Olaf Church in the world premier of Spirit in Unity set in the Voices of Africa concert with the Minnesota Chorale along with the choirs of St.Olaf, Central Lutheran, St. Peter Claver, and the Twin Cities African choirs.

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Chris Reiff from the School of Kinesiology's Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP) has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant to support his research project titled "Differences in Caloric Expenditure in Standing versus Sitting Desks."

Congratulations, Chris!

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Anita Bendickson, a long-time self-defense instructor in the University's Physical Activity Program, has recently been featured in a number of WCCO News stories. These stories detail important information on defending against attackers.

Police: Woman jumps out window fleeing from rapist
WCCO News (Minn.) May 5, 2008

Self-defense online tutorial
WCCO News (Minn.) May 5, 2008

Groping Don Shelby and YouTube (Esme Murphy's blog)
WCCO News (Minn.) May 5, 2008

Self-defense expert demonstrates the basics
WCCO News (Minn.) May 6, 2008

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In 2007-08, six undergraduate research assistants have received awards from the University to support their research in the School of Kinesiology's Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). These competitive awards, from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), have been made to Elizabeth deSanto, Mallory Dzubay, Kyle Elm, Zoe Fung, Christie Pelzer, and Alison Smith.

Please join us in congratulating the APAL and these exceptional undergrads!

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Frank Moe, Kinesiology Ph.D. student and Minnesota state legislator from Bemidji, has been awarded a 2008 Bush Leadership Fellowship. Frank is pursuing a Ph.D. in Education-Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies and is advised by Professor Keith Russell.

The fellowships, presented by the Bush Foundation, support full-time academic or self-designed study in a wide range of fields including educational policy and leadership, immigrant business development, public health, ecological education and improvement, and Native American culture and language preservation. Bush Fellows include women and men in such fields as public service, education, government, health, business, engineering, architecture, science, farming, forestry, law, trade unions, law enforcement, journalism, and social work.

Congratulations Frank!

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Two Ph.D. candidates in the School of Kinesiology, Drew Bailey and Jung Hyun Kim, have been awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2008-09 from the Graduate School. These competitive, prestigious, all-University fellowships are designed to support outstanding Ph.D. candidates in devoting full time to their dissertation writing and research. They carry a nine-month stipend of $22,000 plus tuition for thesis credits and/or required seminars during the academic year.

Drew Bailey, student in Education-Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies, emphasis Outdoor Education/Recreation, is advised by Associate Professor Keith Russell. His research topic, Cultivating Wisdom through a Service-Learning Experience, explores how alternative types of education may contribute to the development of wisdom in young people. In his fellowship application, Drew writes, "If the future is plagued with conflict, the instability is not something that exists 'out there somewhere' but a current that flows from inside individuals. To ensure both individual and social well-being, it may be necessary to not only teach students to recall facts and to think critically, but to think wisely as well."

Jung Hyun (Kenny) Kim is a Kinesiology student whose emphasis area is Exercise Physiology. He is advised by Professor Arthur Leon and Professor Victor Koscheyev. His research topic is Regulation of an Energy-Efficient Physiologically Designed Cooling Garment through a Finger Calorimeter Feedback System for Thermal Comfort During Extravehicular Activity (EVA). He is investigating optimal cooling regimes imposed by a cooling garment with participants at different modes and intensities of work as an analog for astronaut thermal comfort under different levels of exertion during EVA. A second aim of his study is to develop a physiological model of a finger calorimeter feedback system as an indicator of human thermal status while working in a protective garment. Kenny writes, "This research will . . . help to better understand human thermoregulatory responses and provide physiological principles for designing a cooling garment."

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Doctoral student Joe Warpeha (Kinesiology) was quoted in a Minnesota Daily article on the University of Minnesota Police Department's Biggest Losers weight loss contest. The Kinesiology department's Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science was also feature.

Minneapolis and campus police seek to shed pounds and gain a new image
Minnesota Daily (Minn.) May 1, 2008

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Michael Wade, Kinesiology professor, was invited to give the keynote address at the First International Conference on Physical Education, Sport, and Health in Kuwait City, Kuwait, April 1-3. This was an inaugural event for the State of Kuwait. The conference was sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the Kuwait Public Authority. Kinesiology Ph.D. graduates Husain Al-Makaimi, Salman Mohammed, and Mubarak Redah were involved in the conference organization and all three hold faculty appointments at the College of Education in Kuwait. Michael also participated in the local TV program "Good Morning, Kuwait."

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On Sunday, April 27, at 10:00 p.m. Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi will be featured on WCCO TV talking about the Parents And Coaches Together (PACT) sport education program she helped co-develop for the Minnesota Youth Soccer Association.

UPDATE: View the story and video at http://wcco.com/specialreports/parents.coaching.behave.2.709792.html.

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Jens Omli, Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate, has been offered a two-year NIMH traineeship at the Institute of Child Development. He will be working with Professors Dante Cicchetti and Nicki Crick to acquire new research skills, including measurement of HPA-axis functioning, which will allow him to investigate the influence of angry parent behavior on emotional outcomes in youth sport participants.

Congratulations, Jens!

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Carol Leitschuh, Kinesiology research associate and lecturer, was named Fulbright Scholar Alternate for 2008-09. Further awards for Carol's proposal are contingent on agency resolution of financial disparities between the dollar and the euro. If funded Carol will work in the Czech Republic lecturing at Palacky University in Olomouc and conducting pilot research on motor development for infants and toddlers living in orphanages.

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Nicole LaVoi, associate director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, was featured on this morning's news segment on Minnesota Public Radio. She discussed the newly released 2007 Tucker Center Research Report: Developing Physically Active Girls.

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Kristen Pickett and Kuan-yi Li, Ph.D. candidates in Kinesiology, and their adviser, Juergen Konczak, won a Cognitive Science Spring Research Poster Prize at the Center of Cognitive Science's Research Day held
April 3 at the Metrodome Holiday Inn. The title of their poster is "A New Method for the Measurement of Passive Limb Motion Sensitivity."

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Beth Lewis, assistant professor in Kinesiology, presented at and chaired the symposium titled "Innovative methods for examining mediators in randomized controlled intervention trials" at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), San Diego, CA, in March 2008.

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Professor Michael G. Wade (Kinesiology) will join an interdisciplinary conversation titled "Time and Embodied Cognition" along with scholars Ursina Teuscher (Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego), Even Selinger (Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology), Wade Savage (Philosophy, University of Minnesota), and moderator Arun Saldanha (Geography, University of Minnesota). The panel is an interdisciplinary research project funded by the University's Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and the Office of the Vice President for Research as part of the University Symposium on Time. The free conversation is part of IAS's "Symposium on Time" and will take place on Friday, April 25, in room 125 Nolte Library.

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On Thursday, April 10, Research Associate Carol Leitschuh (Kiniesiology) will be the keynote speaker at the 15th Annual Conference Together We Will Create Motor and Movement Experiences for Young Children held in Connecticut. Her keynote presentation title is “Children's Movement: The So Essential Contributor to Positive Development!! (Yes, even the brain!)�?. This presentation will address the importance of movement and how we as a nation have veered away from that focus. Carol will also be doing a workshop titled, “Development and Validation of Functional Movement for Young Children.�?

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Joe Warpeha, Kinesiology Ph.D. student, has been quoted in the March 2008 issue of Men's Health magazine and the April 2008 issue of Vogue magazine regarding exercise and special training methods.

Joe has also just completed a two-year term as a columnist for the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Performance Training Journal and has published more than 20 articles in the journal since 2004. Joe will be presenting at the Northland chapter meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the Midwest regional meeting of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and the annual meeting of the American Society of Exercise Physiologists (ASEP) this spring.

Congratulations, Joe!

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Beth Lewis, assistant professor of kinesiology, has been awarded a three-year $232,577 subcontract for her role as a co-investigator on an NIH-funded multisite trial examining the efficacy of stent vs. exercise for treating peripheral artery disease (PAD) titled "Claudication: Exercise Versus Endoluminal Revascularization (CLEVER)." Beth will be responsible for delivering the telephone-based exercise maintenance interventions to participants across all of sites in the study.

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Kinesiology graduate students Joe Warpeha (Ph.D.) and Adam Frye (M.A.) in the exercise physiology emphasis will be featured in a story on KARE-11 tonight on the Minneapolis Police Department and their Biggest Loser contest. One hundred police officers will visit the School's Laboratory of Physical Hygiene and Exercise Science to get their body fat assessed at the beginning of the contest and at three months. The lab is using the underwater tank for body fat testing. Adam was videotaped performing the procedure as Joe was interviewed. Tune in tonight--the story will be aired at either 5 p.m. or 6 p.m.

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Mary Jo Kane, Kinesiology chair and director of the Tucker Center, is featured in an NCAA News Web site article, "Forum Studies Women in Sports". The article highlights Kane's research in her session titled "Portrayal of Female Athletes in the Media," to be given at the upcoming Women in College Sports Forum, April 6, in Tampa, Florida.

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Keith Russell, associate professor of kinesiology, was featured in the February issue of Parks & Recreation for his work with the Wise Kids program, an out-of-school pilot program designed to help kids make wise nutrition and activity choices. Wise Kids is funded by the Säjai Foundation and Keith has been heading the team that is assessing the program's impact.

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Two Ph.D. students in the School of Kinesiology have had posters accepted for presentation at the American College of Sport Medicine's Annual Meeting on May 29 in Indianapolis. Danielle Templeton's poster is titled "Bone Mineral Content in Overweight and Normal Weight Children." Michael Nelson's poster is titled "Reliability of Heart Rate Variability by Sample Entropy at Rest and During Light Exercise in Children." Both students are advisees of Associate Professor Don Dengel.

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Kinesiology lecturer Stacy Ingraham offers comment in the debate on whether athletes should stretch.

To Stretch or Not to Stretch? The Answer Is Elastic
New York Times (N.Y.) March 13, 2008

No One Knows Value of Stretch
The Ledger (Fla.) March 18, 2008

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Kinesiology lecturer Stacy Ingraham was featured extensively in yesterday's Minnesota Daily in an article about plagiarism.

Policing plagiarism in a digital age
Minnesota Daily (Minn.) March 3, 2008

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Kinesiology professor Art Leon will be an invited presenter at Arizona State University's 3rd Annual Conference, "Building Healthy Lifestyles," Feb 28 to March 1. His two presentation topics are "Relationship of Physical Activity and Physical Fitness to Risk of Coronary Heart Disease" and "Contributions of Blood Lipids and Dietary Habits to Risk of Coronary Heart Disease."

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Professor Arthur Leon (Kinesiology) received some excellent news this week regarding his grant proposal with NIH, which received a score of 1.3 from the NIH peer review, assuring funding when the council meets in May. The grant is for expansion of his research on the role of exercise (arm cycling vs. walking) on improving walking capability in patients with peripheral artery disease.

The grant request is for $3.5 million total cost for 5 years beginning this July. Professor Diane Treat- Jacobson of the School of Nursing is the PI, Art is the Co-PI, and Ulf Bronas, who received his Ph.D. in Kinesiology last fall, is the Project Coordinator. The group is currently in the fourth year of an AHA pilot project, which is the basis for the NIH proposal.

Congratulations, Art!

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Eric Brownlee, teaching specialist in the School of Kinesiology, recently had his study "The Effectiveness of Sponsoring Women's Collegiate Sport" accepted for presentation at the 2008 North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) conference in Toronto, Canada.

Congratulations Eric!

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Keith Russell, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology, has been invited by the National Institute of Drug Abuse/NIH to present with other leading researchers at a special meeting examining the role that outdoor recreation experiences and physical activity play in the prevention and treatment of substance abuse in youth. The meeting will be held April 22 and 23 in Rockville, Maryland, and presenters will have the opportunity to submit an RFP for research in this area. Keith is recognized nationally and internationally as a foremost researcher in the area of wilderness treatment programs.

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Look for Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi Saturday, February 9, on the FoxSports North broadcast of Hockey Day Minnesota, where she will discuss results of the Tucker Center's research on what motivates fans to attend men's and women's intercollegiate hockey.

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Professor Tom Stoffregen, doctoral students Russ Giveans and Ken Yoshida, and postdoctoral student Sebastien Villard (all in the School of Kinesiology) were featured in a story and video by Ivanhoe Broadcast News on why some people experience motion sickness while others don't.

See the story and video.

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Don Dengel, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology, recently published an article.

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Kiley Theede, M.Ed./initial licensure student in applied kinesiology, has been selected 2008 Student of the Year by NASPE (National Association for Sport and Physical Education). Kiley has an impressive academic record and exceptional volunteer experiences. She is a mentor at Bethune Elementary in Minneapolis and serves as an Amicus volunteer. She has volunteered for Toys for Tots, ARC of Minnesota, the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, and Hearing and Service Dogs. She attended the Global Peace and Security Summit in Minneapolis last fall and will be attending the National Convention for the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance this April in Fort Worth, Texas. Elizabeth Spletzer is her adviser.

Congratulations, Kiley!

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A recent Connect! article on kinesiology doctoral candidate Jens Omli is being featured in UMNnews and on the front page of the University's Web site.

A sporting chance
UMNnews (Minn.) Jan. 11, 2008

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Keith Russell, associate professor of kinesiology, will present a symposium at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention in Boston in August 2008. He and Dr. Lee Gillis, a psychologist from Georgia College and State University, were chosen to present "Group-Based Adolescent Treatment: Service Delivery and Effectiveness, and Emerging Treatment Alternatives."

Keith also has a chapter in a forthcoming book, Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities: A Guide to Practices that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults, edited by Jeffrey D. Roth, M.D., and Andrew J. Finch, Ph.D. The book chapter is titled "Scope of the Problem--Adolescent Substance Use."

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Rayla Allison, kinesiology lecturer, was quoted in the latest edition of the Minnesota Women's Press in an article on Foundation IX, a nonprofit organization committed to eliminating cost as a barrier to girls' participation in sports and fitness activities.

Play it forward
Minnesota Women's Press (Minn.) Jan. 4, 2008

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Assistant Professor Beth Lewis (Kinesiology) recently published a commentary.

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Research on motion sickness from the School of Kinesiology's Tom Stoffregen's Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) is featured in an article on the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Web site, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The video clip in the article is one of only five currently listed, and one of only 32 in the history of the HFES program. Read the article here: http://www.aip.org/dbis/HFES/stories/17051.html.

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Kinesiology faculty members Nicole LaVoi and Diane Wiese-Bjornstal and doctoral candidate Jens Omli of the Minnesota Youth Sport Research Consortium (MYSRC), housed in the School of Kinesiology, have had three recent articles addressing the behavior of youth sport parents and coaches accepted for publication.

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Kevin Burns, a kinesiology doctoral student advised by Professor Don Dengel, has been awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for his project "Chronic Effects of Right Ventricular Pacing on Left Ventricular Torsion."

Only 26 percent of applications for this prestigious award receive funding. Kevin's percentile ranking was 4.3 percent, which is exceptionally high for this award. Kevin is the fourth student from the School of Kinesiology to receive the AHA award, joining Aaron Kelly (Ph.D., 2004), Tom Olson (Ph.D., 2005), and Ulf Bronas (Ph.D., 2007). Professor Dengel says, "This exceptional accomplishment speaks to the quality of our students, the research they are conducting, and the education that they are receiving."

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Maureen Weiss, professor in the School of Kinesiology, was named Chair of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) Science Board for 2008. The board’s activities include review and input on the long-standing President’s Challenge program as well as many other initiatives related to physical activity and health across the lifespan. The board includes ten scholars from across the nation who were selected due to their significant contributions to the research and science of physical activity, fitness, health, and sports.

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