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24-Hour Movement Guidelines Recruitment
April 10, 2017 – ***recruitment has ended*** Calling all parents and childcare providers! The UBC School of Kinesiology Pop-PA lab is seeking your input on the 24-hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years. Focus groups will be held from April 1-21st in the DH Copp Building on the UBC campus. To learn more about how you can […]
UBC School of Kinesiology and Beijing Sport University sign statement of cooperation
The delegation met with Director of the School of Kinesiology, Dr. Robert Boushel, to sign the Official Statement of Cooperation.
UBC Kinesiology PhD student named top 30 under 30 by BC Business
Harrison Brown is a 4th Year PhD student, working with Dr. Jean-Sebastien Blouin in the Sensorimotor Physiology Lab. He is being recognized for his efforts to quantify post-concussion balance using inexpensive sensors.
KIN Spotlight on Dylan Brown
Dylan Brown, Active Kids Program Manager, volunteers as Coach with the Vancouver Eclipse Blind Hockey Club and Assistant Tournament Director for the Annual National Blind Ice Hockey Tournament.
BC-SHEPS 2017 – 1 week away!
We are looking forward to hosting the inaugural 2017 BC-SHEPS at UBC Vancouver in 1 week (April 7th, 2017). For more information, check out the site about this initiative driven by and for graduate and undergraduate students as an opportunity to develop presentation skills, network with professors and receive feedback on projects!
2017 Kinesiology Mentorship Program
UBC Kinesiology students and alumni joined together to celebrate the completion of the 2016-17 UBC Kinesiology Mentorship Program.
The program brings together student mentees and alumni mentors for professional development, networking…
Kinesiology Co-op Program Information Session 2017
The Kinesiology Co-op Program formally integrates a student’s academic studies with valuable, relevant, paid kinesiology related work, with approved work sector organizations. If you are currently in 1st or 2nd year, you are eligible to join the program this fall. If you’d like to learn more, please join us for an Information Session!
New Papers Out
Read the newest publications by Dr. Erica Lau: 1. Factors influencing implementation of a preschool-based physical activity intervention and 2. Changes in children’s segmented physical activity in the transition from elementary to middle school (Journal of School Health, in press)
UBC Co-op Council meets with Professor Ono
On Friday, March 24th, Simone Longpré, Co-op Coordinator for the School of Kinesiology, and the UBC Co-op Council met with UBC President, Professor Ono.
New Paper Out
Mar. 22, 2017 – Read the latest publication by Dr. Erica Lau, Dr. Guy Faulkner, and Negin Riazi examining temporal variations in school travel mode and whether these variations predict changes in MVPA among adolescents. Read it here!