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Check out the Virtual Presentation of the 2020 Student Service and Leadership Recognition Awards!

Check out the Virtual Presentation of the 2020 Student Service and Leadership Recognition Awards!

Each year, the School of Kinesiology holds an annual event that celebrates the service and leadership contributions of KIN students to their community. Qualifying students must have held a volunteer or paid role within the School’s services or programs, with a minimum service criterion over the past academic year. Due to unprecedented circumstances presented by […]

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Dr. Jack Taunton, Professor Emeritus

Dr. Jack Taunton, Professor Emeritus

Dr. Jack Taunton, professor emeritus of UBC KIN, has known the importance of sports medicine since he was a boy. Despite suffering major health setbacks in his youth (he contracted polio at seven and was in a bike-car collision at fifteen), he made a full physical recovery due to extensive physiotherapy. With an interest in […]

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The Origins of Balance Deficits and Falls research cluster launches new website

The Origins of Balance Deficits and Falls research cluster launches new website

The Origins of Balance Deficits and Falls (OBDAF) research cluster is one of the 23 emerging research clusters funded by the UBC Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters in 2018. The OBDAF Cluster is led by Drs. Mark Carpenter, Jean-Sébastien Blouin, and Tim Inglis, and includes five other Kinesiology researchers: Drs. Lam, Chua, Kramer, Siegmund, Dalton. […]

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