Smartphone health apps miss some daily activity of users
Marcus Duncan, Guy Faulkner, Kelly Wunderlich and Yingying Zhao found if you use your smartphone to monitor your physical activity, you’re probably more active than it suggests.
Lab Crawl introduces Kinners to Spinal Research
The first Lab Crawl for the 2017/18 Winter term took place on Friday, November 3rd at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre and hosted 18 KIN students across all year levels.
OMiCS Team visits Science World
The Optimizing Movement in Children Study (OMiCS) visited Science World on October 7 to meet and engage with children for Science World’s Meet a Scientist day.
Study to explore impact of heart function on motor outcomes following spinal cord injury
Dr. Chris West and Dr. Brian Kwon have been awarded $1.926 million from the US Department of Defense to study how the functioning of the heart after a spinal cord injury can impact motor outcomes.
Go Thunderbirds Nutrition Website helps athletes eat healthy
Sport Dietitian, Emma McCrudden, supervised a team of students to create the Go Thunderbirds Nutrition website that includes 60+ recipes.
A Salute to Retiring UBC Professor and Director Emeritus, Robert (Bob) Sparks
After exactly 37 years of extraordinary and wide-ranging service, Professor Robert (Bob) Sparks officially retired from the UBC School of Kinesiology on August 31.
UBC Research Boosted by more than $42 Million in NSERC Funding
Bill Sheel was among researchers at UBC who met with Minister of National Defence, Harjit Sajjan, on behalf of the Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan, to announce more than $42 million in support of research at UBC.
Dr. Guy Faulkner receives federal funding to study physical activity and mental health
Dr. Guy Faulkner has received federal funding to study physical activity and its impact on mental health and depression.
Erica Bennett receives SCAPPS Young Scientist Award
Erica Bennett, recent PhD graduate, has been selected in the Exercise and Health Psychology category.
Participate in the OMiCS Pilot Study August 2017
A Q&A with Anne Lasinsky, PhD student in the School of Kinesiology, who studies child and adolescent heath and will be joining the OMiCS Study this fall.