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On Orange Shirt Day/National Truth and Reconciliation Day, September 30, 苹果淫院 Faculty of Education held its fourth annual Sk谩tne Entewathah铆ta / We Will Walk Together event.
The Biomechanics of Occupations and Sports Lab members, supervised by Dr. Julie C么t茅, KPE, recently presented their Ph.D. research at international conferences! Each member who attended was awarded a Canadian Musculoskeletal Rehab Research Network 2022 Trainee Travel Award. Matthew Slopecki was also awarded a Canadian Society of Biomechanics Travel Award.
Erika Renda, Ph.D. Candidate
The Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education would like to congratulate our PhD students Siobhan Henderson, Matthew Slopecki, Rachelle Aucoin, Tayah Liska, Olivia Pastore, and Master鈥檚 students Ada Sevinc, Fr茅d茅rike Parent-L鈥橢cuyer for winning Fonds de Recherche training awards to support their graduate research.
FRQS Fellowship
Congratulations to our聽2022-23聽Cooke Fellowship in Physical Education Award recipient聽Amanda Duguay聽补苍诲听苹果淫院 International Research Master's Student Award (MIRMA) recipient, Kerrigan Sunday!
Amanda Duguay
Congratulations to KPE's Angela Cipriano for winning the Arthur and Lorna Henry Prize awarded by the Faculty of Education's Committee on Student Affairs.
Angela is a 4th year student in Physical and Health Education.
Congratulations to our聽Master's students for being awarded the prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship this year!
Muscle discovery may lead to better drugs
The smallest constituents of muscles, myosin and actin, may be targeted to contribute to more effective treatment methods against heart and muscle diseases, say a group of international researchers at 苹果淫院 and Linnaeus University.
Congratulations to聽Shannon Herrick聽for successfully defending her PhD thesis on Friday, August 12th, 2022.
Title of her PhD thesis:
LGBTQ+ experiences within and across physical activity contexts
Congratulations to KPE's Felix Girard, a MSc candidate in the Clinical Exercise & Respiratory Physiology Laboratory (Supervisor: Prof. Dennis Jensen), for securing a graduate fellowship from the Quebec Respiratory Health Research Network (QRHN)!
Congratulations to KPE's Felix Girard, a MSc candidate in the Clinical Exercise & Respiratory Physiology Laboratory (Supervisor: Prof. Dennis Jensen), for securing a graduate fellowship from the Quebec Respiratory Health Research Network (QRHN)!
Dr. Charlotte Usselman, PI of the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory (CHARLab) in KPE, was the Early Career Keynote Speaker at the Ontario Exercise Physiology Conference in Alliston, ON (July 27-29, 2022).
Congratulations to KPE's Rachelle Aucoin for winning best oral presentation award at the Dyspnea 2022 meeting in Oxford, UK.
Rachelle, a PhD candidate in the Clinical Exercise and Respiratory Physiology Laboratory (Supervisor: Prof. Dennis Jensen), won for her presentation titled:
Impact of trigeminal nerve stimulation on measures of central inspiratory neural drive with implications for management of breathlessness: A systematic scoping review.
Prof. Dennis Jensen, from the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, was recently interviewed by the New York Times on why athletes choose cannabis for pain.
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Congratulations to KPE's Rachelle Aucoin for securing doctoral funding from the Fonds de Recherche de Qu茅bec Sant茅 (FRQS) and the Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CRRN)
Rachelle Aucoin, PhD Student in the Clinical Exercise and Respiratory Physiology Laboratory, has secured doctoral funding from both the Fonds de Recherche de Qu茅bec Sant茅 (FRQS) and the Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CRRN).
She was awarded a 4-year funding package from FRQS totalling $84,000 and a $10,500 scholarship from the CRRN.