Category: Department of Kinesiology

UW–Madison’s Beth Fields, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, was recently awarded an American Occupational Therapy Foundation Early-Career Research Excellence Award. Fields conducts health services and implementation research with a focus on geriatric and caregiving outcomes. She is the principal investigator of an R03 Small Research Grant and Clinical Research …

UW–Madison graduate student Brittany St. John has been awarded a Fulbright Future Postdoctoral Scholarship by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. St. John is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, focusing on occupational science. The scholarship, which is funded by the Kinghorn Foundation, will support St. John’s work in partnership with the Olga Tennison …

The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2022 Annual Meeting is being held in San Diego April 21-26. And once again, faculty, staff, and students with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) are being well-represented at this major event. According to information collected by the department, 31 sessions taking place …

UW–Madison’s Brandon Fico has been awarded a three-year research fellowship from the Alzheimer’s Association for his project entitled, “Arterial Stiffness and Cerebral Hemodynamics Impact on Alzheimer’s Disease.” Fico is a postdoctoral fellow in the Bruno Balke Biodynamics Laboratory in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology. The fellowship will support Fico’s investigation of how age-related changes in the …

By Charlene N. Rivera-Bonet While balance training may not necessarily sound fun to most adolescents, video games typically do. And for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, video games that improve their balance by teaching them yoga and tai chi poses also improve their posture, reduce the severity of their autism symptoms, and influence the structure of …