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! Continue reading “Kinesiology Co-op Program Information Session 2017”
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!
Kinesiology Distinguished Seminar Series: “Exploring Hypoxia as an Ergogenic Aid for Endurance Athletes”
Seminar Speaker: Dr. Jerome Dempsey, Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at University of Wisconsin, Madison, is internationally recognized for his distinguished research career. To date he has 334 primary research publications. Many of these publications relate to basic mechanisms of the respiratory system (control of breathing, pulmonary mechanics, and alveolar-capillary gas exchange), while others relate to critical changes that occur during sleep, exercise, high altitude sojourn, thermal stresses, and other environmental stresses of the respiratory system.
Congratulations to the Physical Activity Research Centre (PARC) on a City of Vancouver 2017 Award of Excellence
Congratulations to the Physical Activity Research Centre (PARC) on being selected to receive a City of Vancouver 2017 Award of Excellence in the Accessible City category.
The Awards of Excellence recognize excellence in five categories of achievement that benefit everyone by making Vancouver more green, healthy, diverse, and accessible. The Accessible City Award celebrates outstanding leadership to enhance accessibility, inclusion, and elimination of barriers to full participation for persons with disabilities.
PARC is a community-based research facility that is part of the University of British Columbia’s spinal cord injury research centre at the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (I-CORD). Their goal is to advance research to create the best strategies for providing opportunities for people with complete or partial paralysis due to spinal cord dysfunction to participate in physical activity.
PARC is the first facility of its kind in Canada and aims to engage Vancouver’s spinal cord injury (SCI) community through exercise and science. Since opening in 2013, PARC has become a community hub, serving as an educational resource and meeting place where those living with SCIs share experiences and learn from each other. There are now more than 250 participants enrolled and the centre is completely run by volunteers.
Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver City Council presented the PARC team with the award at a special ceremony on February 28th.
Global News: Run to Quit Project
Mar. 3, 2017 – See Dr. Carly Priebe talk about the first results of the Run to Quit project on Global News. Watch it here!
Running can be the key to quitting smoking: study
Dr. Carly Priebe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Population Physical Activity Lab discusses how running can help smokers quit.