News: Kinesiology
UCF Partners with The Paragon School to Develop Health Promotion Interventions for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
When Jeanette Garcia, an assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy was in grade school and high school in Pittsburgh, she noticed that students were split into...
First Kinesiology Student Accepted into DeVos Sport Business Management Program
When Gabriella Pacetti ’19 BS found out she had been accepted into the DeVos Sport Business Management Program at UCF, she was shocked. “I was like ‘Do they have the...
Graduate Students Win UCF and College Awards for Outstanding Research, Teaching
Michael La Monica ’18Ph.D. is the recipient of UCF’s 2018-19 award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Social Science, Humanities, Education, Business, Art and Health category. He completed his doctorate in...
UCF Elite Athletes Make the Grade
Elite athletes Natalia Coelho and Mattie Rogers have never met, but they share at least three things in common. Both are majoring in sport and exercise science, maintain 4.0 grade-point averages,...
Kinesiology Students Win Competitive National Scholarships
Six students in the School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy have each won a $1,500 scholarship from the National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation. Nicholas Coker, Nicolas Clark, Kylie Harmon,...
UCF Sports Scientist Says GPS Is Changing the Game
UCF Sports Science Director Michael Redd (Ph.D. in exercise science, ’18) recently visited the Fox 35 News studio in Orlando to describe his use of GPS to monitor the university’s...
UCF Athletics, Kinesiology Program Team Up for Student-Athletes’ Well-Being
Athletics Director Danny White (left) and Interim Dean Jeffrey Stout UCF Athletics and the university’s new School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy are partnering to enhance the well-being and performance...
UCF Grad Draws Inspiration from The Rock
As soon as Heather Robison saw the inspiring words from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, she knew the quote was meant to adorn her UCF graduation cap: “Think back 5 yrs...
In New Study, Children With Autism Learn the Gentle Way of Judo
For one hour each week, children in a new UCF research study shed their label of autism, don white uniforms called judogis and become judokas — practitioners of the martial...
Jeffrey Stout Receives Alma Mater’s Alumni Achievement Award
In 2011, UCF recruited Professor Jeffrey Stout to help build a new doctoral program. Within four years, the National Academy of Kinesiology ranked the Exercise Physiology doctoral program sixth out of 52...
