The 17th Annual Life & Health Sciences Research Day was held on March 12th in the Education Gymnasium. Abstracts were presented by College honours, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students.
The College is very grateful for the contributions that Kori Fisher (Ph.D. student) made, as part of the organizing committee, to this very successful day.
Congratulations to our College prize winners:
Leah Ferguson (Supervisor: Dr. Kent Kowalski): 1st place - Kinesiology (Behavioural).
Parminder Flora (Supervisor: Dr. Larry Brawley): 2nd place - Kinesiology (Behavioural).
Blair Healey (Supervisor: Dr. Karen Chad): 1st place - Kinesiology (Physiology).
Andrew Frank (Supervisor: Dr. Saija Konulainen): 2nd place - Kinesiology (Physiology).
Hayley Wourms (Supervisor: Dr. Jon Farthing): 3rd place Kinesiology (Physiology).
Several Faculty from the College of Kinesiology acted as volunteer judges including Dr. Adam Baxter-Jones, Dr. Jon Farthing, Dr. Saija Kontulainen, and Dr. Joel Lanovaz. Undergraduate and graduate students from the College served as judging assistants.
Julianne Rooke, M.Sc. student at the College of Kinesiology, won first place in the category of processing and utilization at the poster competition at the Pulse Days Conference in Saskatoon on January 11th. Her poster was titled “Effect of a lentil-based sports nutrition bar versus the PowerBar on endurance exercise performance”.
Two College of Kinesiology Graduate Students, Candace Bloomquist and Serene Smyth, were recently featured in Bridges Newsletter, a pulbication of the The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness.
See Candace’s article on page 10 of Bridges vol 8.2
Click here to read Serene’s article
From January 14-17, the College of Engineering presented their student-run exhibition, Spectrum. This year, students from the College of Kinesiology participated in the show and set up a display highlighting the use of technology in the study of human movement. The display included EMG, motion capture and force data. The students did an excellent job and were rewarded by having their display named “Best Overall Display” by the Spectrum committee judges. Congratulations to Tyler Judd, Mike Smith, Trevor Barss, Valerie Wellens, Brendan Pikaluk, and David Kobylak!
Read about the display on page 16 of the Spectrum 2010 Magazine.
The Graduate Program is now accepting applications for the September 2010 term.
click here for the College of Kinesiology Graduate Program Brochure.
The Coaching Association of Canada has announced that Dr. Keith Russell, Associate Professor at the College of Kinesiology, will be presented the Geoff Gowan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. The Geoff Gowan Award will be presented during Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif, scheduled to take place in Vancouver, November 12-15, 2009. The Sport Leadership Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, November 13, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Grand Ballroom. Click here to view the press release from the Coaching Assoication of Canada.
The College of Kinesiology has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Provost’s Prize for Innovative Practice in Teaching and Learning. Click here to view the announcement.
Congratulations to Stefan Jackowski, Ph.D. Candidate (Supervisor: Dr Adam Baxter-Jones) recipient of the young investigator award at the XXVth International Symposium of Pediatric Work Physiology held in Le Touquet Paris Plage, France, September 2009. Stefan’s poster presentation was entitled ‘Does maturational timing compromise bone mineral content in adulthood? (co-authors: RL Mirwald, RA Faulkner, DA Bailey and ADG Baxter-Jones). Marta Erlandson, Ph.D. Candidate (Supervisor: Dr Adam Baxter-Jones) also attended the meeting and presented a poster entitled ‘The effect of early childhood gymnastic on subsequent bone density and strength (co-authors: S Kontulainen, S Jackowski and ADG Baxter-Jones).
Pictured from left to right are Stefan Jackowski, Marta Erlandson and Adam Baxter-Jones.
Several current students within the College of Kinesiology represented Saskatchewan at the 2009 Jeux Canada Games in Prince Edward Island, August 15-29, 2009. Pictured here (from left to right) are Keegan Sharp, Jennifer Jochim and Andrew Arndt. Keegan competed in the Decathlon event in Track and Field, placing third. Jennifer competed in three Rowing events - the Women’s Quad (bronze medal), the Women’s Eight (bronze medal) and the Women’s Four (sixth place). Andrew competed in the 400 Metre Hurdles and placed 8th overall. We would like to congratulate all of the athletes that competed in the Jeux Canada Games.
Congratulations to College of Kinesiology M.Sc. Candidate, Amanda Froehlich, the first place female finisher in Queen City Marathon held in Regina on September 12, 2009. This is the third year in a row Amanda has won this event, this year setting a course record of 2:58:09.
Good job Amanda!
The College of Kinesiology had another strong presence at the 3rd Annual EPOWC conference hosted this year by the University of Manitoba. This conference was the largest this year, with over 30 student/post-doc presentations. USTEP funded summer student Kyle Friesen (supervisor: Dr. Jon Farthing) won the runner up prize in the undergraduate category. Congratulations Kyle! In total, there were 5 presentations from the college, including 3 presentations in the M.Sc. category (Julianne Rooke, Christine Bennett, and Brendan Pikaluk; supervisor Dr. Phil Chilibeck), 1 in the Undergraduate category (Kyle Friesen), and 1 in the Post-doc category (Dr. Saman Abeysekara; supervisor Dr. Phil Chilibeck). All presenters represented the college very well. In addition to the presenters from the college and their supervisors, the conference was also attended by the Dean of Kinesiology, Dr. Carol Rodgers. The UofS contributed more presentations than any other University in attendance, other than the host University of Manitoba.
Faculty from the College of Kinesiology have secured research funding in the recent CIHR operating grant competitions. Dr. Saija Kontulainen (Co-investigators: Dr. Adam Baxter-Jones, College of Kinesiology; Dr. David Cooper, College of Medicine; Dr. James Johnston, College of Engineering; Dr. David Leswick, College of Medicine; and Dr. Hassanali Vatanparast; College of Pharmacy and Nutrition) was awarded an operating grant for her work exploring the relationship of bone development and physical activity during the adolescent growth period to bone strength at wrist and hip in young adulthood. This study is an extension of the Saskatchewan Pediatric Bone Mineral Accrual Study (PBMAS Director Dr Adam Baxter-Jones) which measured children growth, bone mass accrual and lifestyle factors over 7 years (1991-1998) in childhood (age 8-20 years) and 5 years during young adulthood (2002-2007; 20 to 30 years). These participants are now entering their 4th decade of life. The proposed study provides a unique opportunity to address an important question: Do growth and lifestyle factors during childhood and adolescence affect long-term bone strength?
Dr. Adam Baxter-Jones was a co-applicant on a successful four-year operating grant in collaboration with researchers at Brock University entitled “Effect of Physical Activity on Muscle Function in growing children: Implications for adult health” (Principle Investigator: Dr. Bareket Falk; co-applicants: Dr. Adam Baxter-Jones, Dr. Raffy Dotan, Dr. David Gabriel and Dr. Nota Klentrou). The results of this study will provide the basis of neuromuscular function during childhood, which can then be applied in various childhood chronic diseases that affect the neuromuscular system.
Photo of Saija Kontulainen courtesy of the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, photo of Adam Baxter-Jones by Kevin Hogarth for the U of S.
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