New website for KPE鈥檚 Spinal Cord Injury Peer Mentorship team
Dr. Shane Sweet, of our Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE), has launched a new website for a community-university partnership on Spinal Cord Injury Peer Mentorship (SCIPM): www.mcgill.ca/scipm
Congratulations to Soultana Macridis on the successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis
Congratulations to Soultana Macridis on the successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis (March 09, 2015), entitled:
鈥淎n Ethnographic Evaluation of a Community-Based Participatory Research Project Understanding Community Mobilization and Participation in School Active Transportation Initiatives in the Kanien鈥檏eh脿:ka Community of Kahnawake, QC.鈥�
Congratulations to Sophia Kapchinsky on the successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis
Congratulations to Sophia Kapchinsky (and her supervisors, Drs. Taivassalo and Hepple) on the successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis (March 10, 2015), entitled:
鈥淣ovel Mechanisms and interventions addressing locomotor muscle atrophy and reduced oxidative capacity in severe COPD patients.鈥�
Congratulations, Dr. Kapchinsky!听 The DKPE is very proud of you and your accomplishment(s)!
Congratulations to Ryan Reid
Congratulations to Ryan Reid, Ph.D. candidate in exercise physiology with Dr. Ross Andersen, on the recent acceptance of two peer-reviewed manuscripts.听
Reid RER, Andersen RE.听 Affordable Activity Monitors Can Improve Post-Surgical Care in Bariatric Surgery Patients.听 Journal of Anaplastology.
Congratulations to Yana Konokhova
Congratulations to Yana Konokhova, Ph.D. candidate with Drs. Tanja Taivassalo and Russell Hepple, for winning Best Presentation Award for her talk Oxidative DNA damage and mitochondria depletion in COPD locomotor muscle at the 9th Edition of the Annual Meeting of the COPD Strategic Group of the Respiratory Health Network of the FRQS (Quebec City, QC, February 18-19, 2015).
Adriano Tassone Internship Award in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education
The Adriano Tassone Internship Award established in 2009 by Vincent and Sabina Tassone along with friends and family, in memory of their son Adriano Tassone, to help students who have completed U1 and/or U2 in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education to gain practical experience in the area of research in Kinesiology through a summer internship award.
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Fall 2014 Convocation - Graduates of KPE
Congratulations to all the graduates of the Department of Kinesiology and Physical EducationDanielle Fainer, M.A. Supervisor: Professor William Harvey, Ph.D. Thesis Title:听 ADHD and obesity: Who would have thought?
PATH鈥檚 First Annual Symposium
The 成人VR视频 Research Centre for Physical Activity and Health (PATH) presented their first annual symposium on Friday, October 3rd at the 成人VR视频 Faculty Club. Entitled Making Connections, the Centre鈥檚 inaugural seminar event gathered prominent researchers from 成人VR视频 and elsewhere who have an interest in studying the relationship between physical activity and health across a broad spectrum of healthy and diseased states.
