Events at: Life Sciences Centre, room LSC2 (1002)

Seminar Series: Rx Exercise: Standard of care for cancer patients – Kinesiology makes a difference!

Dr. Don McKenzie will join our seminar program to talk about a number of issues specific to cancer and exercise, and how the introduction of exercise in the cancer population in BC is, in part, the history of Abreast in A Boat and the global impact the program has had in changing the way society […]

Seminar Series: Mood states and mental health in sport, exercise and life – Dr. Peter Terry

Dr Peter Terry is Dean of the Graduate Research School and Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. Dr Terry will join our seminar series to speak about mental health in sport, exercise and life. Learn more.

UBC Exercise, Kinesiology and Health Seminar Series: Dr. Stuart Biddle

‘Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue’: 45 – year reflections on exercise psychology and behaviour change My first academic appointment was in 1979. If I have any expertise, it’s in psychology and health behaviour change. But initially I was searching for something and couldn’t quite find it. Career trajectories change and I […]

UBC Exercise, Kinesiology, and Health Seminar Series: Dr. Tara McDonald

Is your blood sugar undermining your workouts? Hyperglycemia impairs exercise responses and adaptations in muscle Abstract: Chronic high blood glucose (known as hyperglycemia) is associated with an impaired adaptive response to aerobic exercise, which includes reduced improvements in aerobic fitness. Low aerobic fitness (also known as low VO2peak) is the single greatest predictor of mortality; […]

UBC Exercise, Kinesiology and Health Seminar Series: Dr. Jason Laurendeau

In collaboration with UBC Centre for Sport and Sustainability, join us on September 22 as Dr. Jason Laurendeau explores; Title: “I don’t want to do this half-assed”: Unsettling teaching in a colonial context Abstract:  Drawing on interviews with kinesiology faculty members at three different institutions, I reflect on numerous layers, challenges, and tensions faculty members […]

Don McKenzie Lecture: Dr. Sue Hopkins

Four decades of research into pulmonary gas exchange during exercise: what do we know now that we didn’t know in the 1980’s? Sue Hopkins MD PhD Bio: Sue Hopkins MD PhD is a Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Diego. She received her MD degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland before attending […]