Announcements and News
Check this page regularly for all new announcements for current and new students as well as see all the new a great things that the School of Sport and Excercise Science is doing.
Colorado Health Foundation Grant Awarded to Create Healthy Schools
Faculty from the School of Sport and Exercise Science have been awarded a $700,814 grant from the Colorado Health Foundation as part of the foundation's Creating Healthy Schools funding strategy to create a statewide system of support that fosters thriving health and wellness environments, and addresses obesity rates for Colorado school children. Read more about the grant project.
Found in Translation
Sitting in a small, instrument-packed lab in Ross Hall is a squat, benign-looking gray tank that contains liquid nitrogen. It also contains a spectrum of cancer cells from various lines. But this is one instance where cancer cells are helping make cancer patients’ lives better. These cells are used in animal research that helps doctors understand exercise’s effect on cancer patients during and after chemotherapy treatment.
Across campus, at the UNC Cancer Rehabilitation Institute, that research is applied to real life, where cancer patients and survivors do cardio and resistance workouts to combat the effects of chemotherapy and cancer on their quality of life.
UNC’s groundbreaking work in cancer rehabilitation has led UNC professor and director of the institute Reid Hayward to Washington D.C., where he’s spoken to doctors at the National Institutes of Health, and to Memphis, where he’s twice given presentations to the teams at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Olympic Mettle
On an early Tuesday morning, Gunter 1150 looks like pretty much any other college classroom. A few posters hang on the walls. Students in jeans, sweats and athletic gear fill the desks for a required Physical Education class.
After a student presentation, the professor tells his students to get up and stretch before his lecture on the Paralympics. Then two things happen: He wheels over to a table at the front of the classroom, and he pulls out a bronze medal.
Meet Scott Douglas, known to his students as Dr. D. He’s program coordinator of UNC’s sports coaching program and teaches in the School of Sport and Exercise Science.
Moving to Address Childhood Obesity
In back of Megan Babkes Stellino’s Centennial home sits a series of yards stitched
together like the squares in a quilt, where her two children, Evan, 9, and Alex, 6,
have the rare freedom to play in a wide-open spot, unfettered by fences and surrounded
by neighborhood kids.
Those kids all romp together in their backyards. Right now, the hot game is a mix
of tag and hide and seek. Babkes Stellino calls it “beautiful.”
