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K E Y N O T E S AAHPERD awards research fellowship to Robinson Dr. Leah Robinson, assistant professor of motor behavior in the Department Kinesiology, was among 11 candidates welcomed as Research Consortium Fellows at the Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). Robinson and the other new fellows were recognized at the organization’s annual convention in San Diego. She is one of approximately 375 fellows in the Research Consortium, whose total membership consists of more than 5,500 research scholars and members of AAHPERD. Research Consortium Fellows are selected based on their publication record, research presentations and the quality of their scholarship. Robinson, a member of the College of Education faculty since 2007, has focused much of her work on early childhood motor behavior and relationship between activity and childhood obesity levels. The AAHPERD advances, promotes and distributes research involving physical education, recreation, health and dance. It represents the largest organization supporting and assisting individuals involved with each of those specialties. ta l e s f ro m t h e ta p e s Opelika basketball players gain insight into science behind their sport The videotape doesn’t lie. Members of the Opelika High School boys and girls basketball teams crowded around a monitor in Dr. Wendi Weimar’s Biomechanics Lab and watched intently as she reviewed video footage of players shooting jump shots. Weimar’s critiques were so thorough, in fact, that some players started to jokingly refer to her as the “mean lady with the camera.” Sloppy fundamentals, whether in the form of a splayed elbow, poorly-timed jump or clumsy follow through, were caught on camera. Opelika High School boys basketball coach John Wadsworth brought his players to the Department of Kinesiology’s labs for a second consecutive year to sharpen their shots as well as their focus on academics. Girls basketball coach Devin Booth and her team joined in for a tour of laboratories, interaction with Kinesiology professors and students and fun skill challenges that tested everything from hand-eye coordination to balance. “I think the best thing is just getting them to a college campus and letting them see that there are other things going on besides basketball games and football games,” Wadsworth said. His wife, Dr. Danielle Wadsworth, assistant professor of health promotion and director of the college’s Physical Activity Promotion Laboratory, arranged the visit to help the studentathletes better understand the science behind their sport. They also learned about the different career paths the Department of Kinesiology prepares students to follow. “I think it really helps them connect what they do sport-wise as a science and think a bit more about what they do,” she said. “They understand how throwing a ball at a target on the wall will make them a better free throw shooter.” In one lab, players raced against the clock in a manual dexterity exercise. Others tested their hand-eye coordination by throwing tennis balls at a small target mounted to a wall or by bouncing the ball off the wall and catching it with one hand. Dr. Shakela Johnson-Ford ’07, assistant principal at Opelika High School, accompanied the teams on their visit and even participated in some of the physical challenges. Johnson-Ford, who earned a doctoral in education administration from the college, said the lab experiences proved to be as much fun for the players as their time on the basketball court. In the cl assroom Title: Director, TigerFit Jim McDonald Course: PHED 1300-2 Triathlon Training When is it offered? Spring semester Who takes it? Anyone interested in competing in their first triathlon. The only prerequisite is the ability to swim four lengths in an Olympic-sized swimming pool What will you learn? “The course is designed to take someone who is out of shape to the point where they can complete a spring triathlon (300- to 400-yard swim, a 12- to 15-mile bicycle ride and a 3- to 4-mile run) and have fun doing it. The class meets three days per week, but the students are expected to complete six workouts per week (two swims, two runs, two bicycle rides). When they finish, they have learned the rules of triathlon, built the stamina to complete a race and hopefully have discovered that this is a great sport.” 4 0 K e y s t o n e V o l u m e V I I , 2 010
K i n e s i o l o g y A N e w H o m e Department eager to settle into new facilities The Department of Kinesiology will soon have facilities to match its sparkling reputation for performing vital research. In addition to the university’s new Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, which opened in spring 2011, faculty can also look forward to the construction of a new Department of Kinesiology building on a site formerly occupied by Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures near Wire Road and adjacent to the outdoor swimming complex. Dr. Mary Rudisill, department head, said the building should be open in time for the fall 2012 semester. She expressed gratitude to the university’s Board of Trustees, as well as Provost Mary Ellen Mazey and Dean Betty Lou Whitford, for their support in obtaining state-of-the-art facilities. “We’re really excited that we’re going to be in a building that is really built to meet our needs,” she said. “We see ourselves advancing. It’s going to help in terms of student and faculty recruitment. We appreciate the support of the college and university. We feel as though they’re seeing our potential and supporting that. We’re going to live up to it. We want to thank everybody for believing in us.” The Department of Kinesiology building will consist of 58,000-square feet of research and office space. Faculty will use classroom space in the Student Activities Center, which N e w fac e s Tina Gottesman Associate I - Financial Lauren Einhorn Administrative Support Associate I - Academic will be renovated and transformed into a Wellness & Sustainability Center. That building will include such amenities as a dance studio and weight room. Rudisill said Dr. David Pascoe, Humana- Germany-Sherman distinguished professor and director of the Thermal and Infrared Lab, served as the department’s point person in communicating needs to the architects, Infinite Architecture and ThreeSixty Architecture. “The university was very careful to first assess our department teaching, research and outreach needs,” Pascoe said. “The building has been designed to meet our current faculty needs, and the spaces have been designed to accommodate other faculty if and when vacancies arise. The building is designed from a program focus more than from an individual faculty focus.” The newly completed MRI Research Center, located at the university’s research park, will offer space for the department’s research relating to gait analysis, posture analysis, post-surgery performance and rehabilitation, exercise prescription and adherence, sports performance testing and assessment and sports psychology. It will also serve the Warrior Research Center (see related story, page 32). Rudisill said the new facilities should help the department solidify its position in the National Academy of Kinesiology’s ranking of doctoral programs. “We have a goal to be in the top 15 and we think we can get there with the MRI building and the new facility,” she said. K E Y N O T E S ALSDE awards funding for physical activity study Drs. Danielle Wadsworth and Leah Robinson earned a $5,000 Alabama State Department of Education grant in support of their collaboration examining approaches to physical education at the preschool level. Their project is entitled “Increasing Preschoolers’ Physical Activity and Time On-task using Structured Classroombased Physical Activity Breaks.” The study will evaluate the effect classroom-based physical activity breaks have on preschool-age children’s physical activity levels during the school day and on-task behavior during instruction time. Quindry earns seed grant Dr. John Quindry, director of the Cardioprotection Research Laboratory, earned a seed grant from the college’s Scholarship and Innovation Committee. His project relates to heart attack protection and how “natural opioids” prevent heart attack damage. A K e y s t o n e i n B u i l d i n g a B e t t e r F u t u r e f o r A l l 41
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