Two doctoral students in kinesiology, Sarah Ehrlicher and Harrison Stierwalt, were just awarded nationally competitive research grants. Both Sarah and Harrison received the Doctoral Student Research Grant from the American College of Sports Medicine, a premier research award for doctoral students in the field of kinesiology.
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Assistant Professor Marit Bovbjerg, epidemiology, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2019-2020 academic year. She will be working at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre at University College Cork, Ireland, doing research on home birth, VBAC and maternal hemorrhage in the Irish health care system.
HDFS PhD student Jessica Dahlgren’s policy recommendation was chosen to be reviewed at Social Work Day on the Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 20. Her recommendation is to create policies that increase funding for organizations that support children of incarcerated parents to stop the cycle of intergenerational incarceration. Jessica will be attending the CRISP […]
Health policy PhD student Abby Mulcahy will present “Queering the concept of successful aging” at the Lewis and Clark Gender Studies Symposium in March. The paper and a workshop, “Defiance in the U.S. healthcare system,” have both been accepted to the Pacific & Western Disability Studies Symposium in May.
Assistant Professor Sam Logan will receive the Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award from the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. Recipients must demonstrate a record of scholarship that “clearly establishes the recipient as a leading scholar among scientists at similar career stages.” Learn more on NASPSPA’s website.
CPHHS Extension Family and Community Health faculty members Lauren Tobey, Christine Mouzong, Joyce Senior Angulo and Sally Bowman, along with nutrition Professor Melinda Manore, published “How low-income mothers select and adapt recipes and implications for promoting healthy recipes online” in the journal Nutrients. They found that gathering a target audience’s input about desired recipe traits and how best to deliver recipes […]