May 22, 2024 | Ethan Simmons While Black American athletes such as basketball’s Bill Russell, baseball’s Jackie Robinson and tennis’s Althea Gibson received significant coverage in the newspapers of the day, ‘marathoning was on the margins’ The world of competitive long-distance running took off in the 1970s. But stories of the sport’s Black architects and […]
Month: May 2024
Get to Know: Miki Sato, RST assistant professor
March 07, 2024 | Ethan Simmons Get to Know: Miki Sato, assistant professor in Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the College of Applied Health Sciences Miki Sato joined the College of Applied Health Sciences in 2020, after six years at James Madison University. How would you describe your primary research interests? My primary line […]
Canton grows program within public health
June 03, 2024 | Darina Lubenov Black women mention social support as an important consideration for them to be physically active With roots in Pennsylvania, an upbringing in Connecticut and newly planted ideas in Champaign, freshly minted Ph.D. recipient Imani Canton sees community gardening as a way to improve health equity. Canton graduated with her […]
Hot wheels: A stationary track for mice could lead to breakthrough
July 24, 2024 | Darina Lubenov Diego Hernández-Saavedra is focused on studying exercise memory The sight of mice scurrying across the kitchen floor is usually the stuff of our nightmares. But in the lab of Department of Health and Kinesiology Assistant Professor Diego Hernández-Saavedra, running mice indicates progress. Hernández-Saavedra in 2024 received a $30,000 grant from the Center […]
For Health and Kinesiology’s Askow, a heavy lift is no burden
July 09, 2024 | Darina Lubenov To anyone who knows Andy Askow, the marrying of his personal interests and research interests is no surprise. The Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Health and Kinesiology is a six-time national powerlifting champion. He’s also planning to defend his dissertation in the fall and graduate from the College of […]
Even in retirement, Synthia Sydnor stays connected to kinesiology
July 03, 2024 | Ethan Simmons With her unique scholarly background, Synthia Sydnor has provided a humanities-trained perspective within the department for three decades As a wandering graduate student, Synthia Sydnor used to take cross-country road trips while she worked on her Ph.D. at Penn State University. In 1986, an opportunity came calling from the College […]
Fresh legs carry on the Lifetime Fitness Program
May 06, 2024 | Ethan Simmons The Lifetime Fitness Program sports an eight-decade history at the University of Illinois of helping adults ages 55 and older stay fit It’s 7:30 a.m. at Campus Recreation Center East on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Charmaine Young swings a 10-pound exercise ball around her […]
AHS faculty, staff honored with 2024 awards
Here are the 2024 College of Applied Health Sciences and Campus award winners. The awards were presented at the Spring College Meeting on May 2. Congratulations to all of our colleagues on this outstanding achievement. AHS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award–FacultyInstructor Robyn DeterdingRecreation, Sport and Tourism AHS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award–Teaching AssistantGraduate Teaching Assistant Emily HarringtonSpeech and Hearing Science AHS Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research AwardAssociate […]