UW-Madison alumnus Duane Knudson, now a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance at Texas State University, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK). He will be inducted at the academy’s annual meeting in Bellevue, Washington, on September 14. Knudson earned his Ph.D. from the School of …
UW–Madison researchers, including several with ties to the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, recently published a study on the effectiveness of activity trackers, including Fitbits, with JMIR Publications’ mHealth and uHealth. Diana Dorn and Jessica Gorzelitz are both graduate students with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, while Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, Kelli Koltyn and …
It’s not even 7 a.m. and 30 women, several of whom are 70-and-older, are already working up a good sweat inside Gym 2 of the UW-Madison Natatorium. Wearing a headset and wireless microphone, class instructor Bonnie Loughran demonstrates and talks the women through their workout while the Eagles’ “Take it to the Limit (One More Time)” …
Media outlets in the Madison area and across Wisconsin have reported on the UW–Madison School of Education’s extension of its groundbreaking Teacher Pledge program through 2028-29. This is the third extension of the program, which launched in the fall of 2020 and was originally scheduled to run for five years. This latest extension was made possible …