Gerhard (Gerry) Neubeck was a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota, and became NCFR's 35th president in 1977.

Until 1940, Nuebeck lived in Germany, where he was a German-Jewish athlete. In the run-up to the 1936 Olympics, the Nazis put on a charade, allowing Jewish athletes to train in a segregated Olympic facility, then telling them days before the Games that they weren't good enough to compete.

After being beaten by Nazis, Neubeck and his parents fled to the Netherlands and then to the United States, where he eventually earned a master's in psychology and doctorate in education. In the 1960s, he taught of the nation's first courses on human sexuality. He retired from the University of Minnesota in the 1980's and passed away in 2008.

Read more about Neubeck at NCFR.org

Dr. Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, associate professor of kinesiology, gave an invited talk on the "Psychological Aspects of Returning to Sport Following Injury" at the Current Concepts in Sports Medicine spring conference sponsored by Fairview Sports and Orthopedic Care, held in Edina, Minn., on May 18, 2013. This year's conference had national and regional experts come together to discuss and lecture on injuries of the overhead athlete.

Department of Family Social Science doctoral candidate Juyoung Jang and professor Sharon Danes have a paper accepted by the Entrepreneurship Research Journal: "Are we on the same page?: Copreneurial Couple goal congruence and business viability."

Department of Family Social Science professor Abi Gewirtz and graduate student Yaliu He are conducting a workshop at the Beijing Tsinghua University's Department of Psychology June 5-11. Professor Gewirtz will present her expertise in trauma and prevention science.

Alexandre Ardichvili, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), has been chosen as an Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013 for his article entitled "Sustainability or limitless expansion: paradigm shift in HRD practice and teaching" published in European Journal of Training and Development.

Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi, teaching faculty in the School of Kinesiology and associate director of the Tucker Center, discussed the lack of female athletes in sport media on Dr. David Leonard (Professor of Culture, Gender & Race at Washington State University) and Tara Conley (Founder of Media Make Change; Ph.D Student at the Teacher's College of Columbia University).

Thomas A. Stoffregen, Ph.D., director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory and professor of kinesiology, along with four colleagues, have had an article, "Getting Your Sea Legs," accepted for publication in PLOS ONE, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication that features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine.

The article reports research conducted at the beginning of the Spring 2012 voyage of Semester at Sea, and was conducted on board the M/V Explorer as it travelled from the Bahamas to the Commonwealth of Dominica. The research team conducted the first controlled experiments relating body sway to the processes by which novice mariners "get their sea legs."

Jürgen Konczak, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology and director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory, was recently invited by the Dean of the Graduate School, Henning Schroeder, to serve on the University's Interdisciplinary Faculty Advisory Committee. This group will report to the Dean of the Graduate School and the Provost's Interdisciplinary Team. It is part of the wider effort by the university to improve and promote interdisciplinary graduate education across academic units within the University.

Konczak will also serve as the School of Kinesiology's Director of Graduate Studies, starting in the fall, and already directs the interdisciplinary graduate minor in Clinical Physiology and Movement Science.

The mission of North of Sixty° is to create a global tapestry of climate stories, weaving together the history and culture of Arctic communities worldwide and preserving the voices and ecological knowledge of generations. Recently, the North of Sixty° explorers visited the communities Qikiqtarjuaq and Pangnirtung in Nunavut, Canada to interview teachers, students, elders and others.

Below is a video of Expedition Leader, Aaron Doering sharing personal reflections and brief interview excepts with Elders from their recent trip.

North of Sixty: Arctic Voices from North of Sixty on Vimeo.

Tomorrow, Doering will meet with famous weatherman, Al Roker from the Today Show to discuss the project.

Undergraduate exchange students Yi Sun and Lu Huang from Beijing Sport University led a group of middle school students around campus on May 3. Twenty Breck Middle School students visited the School of Kinesiology with their teachers as part of a the China at the U scavenger hunt. Rayla Allison, J.D., associate director and lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, met with the students to explain what kinesiology means, the types of majors offered (KIN, RPLS, SMGT), and careers within kinesiology.