The Ed.D. in KIN Class of 2020 participated in the in-person doctoral hooding ceremony on May 8th as part UNCG’s commencement. This in-person ceremony was held a year after their official graduation date due to the pandemic. Following the ceremony, a celebration picnic was held at Price Park. It was… Continue reading…
Alain Aguilar and Lisa Almedina-McQuade were awarded the Ed.D. in Kinesiology (Ed.D. in KIN) Professional Development Award (2nd call), which is designed to support students seeking professional development opportunities. Alain Aguilar will attend the 18th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive hosted virtually by the UNC Odum Institute. From this professional… Continue reading…
Dr. Lauren Griffin, a recent graduate of the Ed.D. in KIN program, has accepted a new position as the Clinical Education Coordinator/Assistant Professor for the Master of Science in Athletic Training (M.S.A.T.) at UNCG. She shared that she is “…extremely excited for the opportunity. This is something that I have… Continue reading…
The graduate school held a virtual 2021 Showcase of Scholarship in April. This online event aimed to give graduate students an opportunity to share their academic achievements with the greater Greensboro community. The students created brief videos about their research for this broader audience. One of our Ed.D. in KIN… Continue reading…
The 2021 Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) Diversity in Sport Conference was hosted virtually by UNC Greensboro April 16th-17th, 2021. In its fifth year, the AASP Diversity in Sport Regional Conference was a student-driven event targeting traditionally underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students (e.g. students of color, LGBTIQ students, students… Continue reading…
Dr. Ben Dyson, Yanhua (Eddy) Shen, Donal Howley, and Seunghyun Baek presented their study titled “Social and Emotional Learning Matters! Interpreting High-Needs Elementary School Educators’ Buy-In and Constraints with Human Developmental Theories” at the 2021 AERA (American Educational Research Association) Virtual Annual Meeting. The study was presented at a roundtable… Continue reading…
We are excited to have a new Ed.D. in KIN Administrative Assistant, Nathalie Perez. Nathalie started working with our Ed.D. in KIN program this Spring semester. We asked her three questions so we could all get to know her better. Tell us briefly about yourself.My hometown is Orlando, FL. I… Continue reading…
Recently, several students from the Ed.D. in KIN program met for a virtual Cross-cohort Talk to discuss a mix of research topics, including College Teaching, Youth Sports/Athletics, Physical Activity Interventions and Programming, AT/PT Clinical Education, and Cultural Issues. The students had requested this type of program as they wanted to… Continue reading…
Dr. Erin Reifsteck, one of our Ed.D. in KIN core faculty, was awarded the HUMARTS Award (Fall 2019- Spring 2020)! The HUMARTS (Hennis, Ulrich, McGee Assisting Research, Teaching and Service) Award was established by Dr. Celeste Ulrich, a retired Professor of the School of Health and Human Performance, and Dean… Continue reading…
Dr. LaVerene Garner worked in outpatient orthopedics for many years as a physical therapist. When she moved on base at Camp Lejeune to work with veterans who had suffered concussions in Afghanistan and Iraq, she learned an important lesson about healing. “I got to see how when we provide care… Continue reading…
