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To wrap up the 2021 Ed.D. in KIN orientation, our current students hosted an evening social that was filled with fun for our newest cohort. Things got competitive as students played a trivia game that included questions from pop culture, travel, random topics, and UNCG/Ed.D. facts. All 18 attendees were

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Our Ed.D. in KIN alumni, Allen Adeimy, is taking a faculty instructor position at Western Carolina University in the fall in the School of Teaching and Learning. He will teach 6 hours on campus in Health and Physical Education as well as supervise student interns at The Catamount School, Western

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Our Ed.D. in KIN student, Kevin Wallace was named the Coach of the Year for the Metro 4A conference for football. Kevin shared “The award is really a group award. If we did not have great players who bought into our program and assistant coaches who helped this would not

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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