Oregon State baseball’s Jack Anderson and gymnastics’ Taylor Ricci – both Kinesiology majors in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences – are the recipients of the 2016-17 Pac-12 Conference’s Leadership Awards.
Tag: Kinesiology
Categories
CPHHS welcomes new faculty
The College of Public Health and Human Sciences is pleased to announce the recent addition of three new faculty members and the upcoming appointment of another early next year.
“We interpret this to mean many of Oregon’s rural families at risk for food insecurity are also struggling to provide physical activity opportunities for their children,” says Kathy Gunter, an OSU Extension Service physical activity specialist and lead author on the study.
Categories
Video: Pushing the limits
From traversing deep in the forest, to trekking through high desert and scaling rugged peaks and glaciers, each year 9,500 Oregon State students experience all the Pacific Northwest – and beyond – has to offer.
These rare and unique experiences fall under Physical Activity Course (PAC) classes and select Kinesiology courses – housed with the College of Public Health and Human Sciences – and are run through the university’s Adventure Leadership Institute™ (ALI). Adventures include rock climbing, rafting, canyoneering, hiking, wilderness first aid and backpacking.
Children in rural Oregon elementary school classrooms—who are more at risk of becoming obese than their urban counterparts—are getting more physical activity when their teacher uses a toolkit developed by researchers with the Oregon State University Extension Service.
“There still is this misconception that if you have a disability, then you cannot be healthy,” says Gloria Krahn, the Barbara Emily Knudson Endowed Chair in Family Policy Studies. “I would’ve thought that after 25 years, we would be past some of that. Special Olympics is helping bring about that change.”