Category: Department of Kinesiology

UW-Madison’s Gattenby receives Badger Battalion Certificate of Appreciation

Posted on June 25, 2019

UW-Madison’s Tim Gattenby received a certificate of appreciation from the Badger Battalion. Gattenby is a distinguished faculty associate with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and the director of its adapted fitness and personal training program. Gattenby was instrumental in opening a relationship between the Badger Battalion, the Department of Kinesiology, and its adapted fitness initiatives. Gattenby …

Corkery receives 2019 American Kinesiology Association National Master’s Scholar Award

Posted on June 10, 2019

UW-Madison student Adam Corkery was selected by the American Kinesiology Association (AKA) to receive the 2019 American Kinesiology Association National Master’s Scholar Award. Corkery recently earned his master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology this spring, while also working in the Barnes Lab. Corkery studies exercise physiology, having already published work on how exercise’s improvement …

UW-Madison alum Knudson elected fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology

Posted on June 7, 2019

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 publish study on effectiveness of Fitbits

Posted on June 3, 2019

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 …

Exercise program for women 40-and-over going strong after three-plus decades

Posted on August 25, 2014

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)” …

Wisconsin media spotlight School’s extension of Teacher Pledge through 2028-29

Posted on May 8, 2004

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 …