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 session focused on the “Examination […]

We are excited to have a new EdD in KIN Administrative Assistant, Nathalie Perez. Nathalie started working with our EdD 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 have lived in Florida all […]

Recently, several students from the EdD 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 talk with other students who […]

Dr. Erin Reifsteck, one of our EdD 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 Emerita of the College of […]

2020 Summer Graduate Research Assistantship recipients presented their works at the KIN graduate colloquium, including our two EdD in KIN GAs, Eddy Shen and Travis Anderson. Learn more about them and their work: Eddy Shen is a PhD student in Kinesiology. He has been working for the EdD in KIN program as a GA since […]

Congratulations, Dr. Chris Condran (PT, DPT, MBA-HCM, MS, ACSM-EP) is in the 2018 cohort of EdD online students in the KIN program. Currently, Dr. Condran serves as a physical therapist working in clinical settings and also an adjunct for several institutions. He received the Joe Connor Alumni Emerging Leader Award in Aug 2020. This award […]

Dr. Jason Suby, 2018 alumni of the EdD in KIN program, was awarded the Civilian Service Commendation Medal for his work as a member of West Point Department of Physical Education (DPE)’s reaccreditation by the middle states commission on higher education from September 2017 to September 2020. For more information, go here.

Dr. Pam Kocher Brown, a program director of the online EdD program in Kinesiology at UNCG, interviewed with OnlineEdDPrograms.com. This platform provides academic and career resources to guide professionals and educators in education leadership settings and find various online EdD programs. Dr. Brown shared her extensive professional experiences and perspective on UNCG’s EdD in Kinesiology […]

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) SIG93 ‘Research on Learning and Instruction in Physical Education’ held the AERA SIG93 Grad Talks virtually on February 19th, 2021. It aims to give an opportunity for graduate students to introduce their research into a five minute presentation. And Seunghyun Baek, a second year PhD student in KIN participated […]

Recently EdD in KIN students, Andrew Cage and Brandon Warner presented at the 2021 NAKHE Conference. The conference was held virtually on January 6-9, 2021. This year’s conference theme was “Supporting Faculty through Effective Leadership: The Work Beyond the Work”. It was focused on legal and ethical aspects of the work environment, open communication between […]