Congratulations to KPE's Angela Cipriano for winning the Arthur and Lorna Henry Prize awarded by the Faculty of Education's Committee on Student Affairs.
Angela is a 4th year student in Physical and Health Education.
Angela is a 4th year student in Physical and Health Education.
Congratulations to our Master's students for being awarded the prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship this year!
The smallest constituents of muscles, myosin and actin, may be targeted to contribute to more effective treatment methods against heart and muscle diseases, say a group of international researchers at McGill University and Linnaeus University.
Title of her PhD thesis:
LGBTQ+ experiences within and across physical activity contexts
Congratulations to KPE's Felix Girard, a MSc candidate in the Clinical Exercise & Respiratory Physiology Laboratory (Supervisor: Prof. Dennis Jensen), for securing a graduate fellowship from the Quebec Respiratory Health Research Network (QRHN)!
Congratulations to KPE's Felix Girard, a MSc candidate in the Clinical Exercise & Respiratory Physiology Laboratory (Supervisor: Prof. Dennis Jensen), for securing a graduate fellowship from the Quebec Respiratory Health Research Network (QRHN)!
Dr. Charlotte Usselman, PI of the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory (CHARLab) in KPE, was the Early Career Keynote Speaker at the Ontario Exercise Physiology Conference in Alliston, ON (July 27-29, 2022).
Congratulations to KPE's Rachelle Aucoin for winning best oral presentation award at the Dyspnea 2022 meeting in Oxford, UK.
Rachelle, a PhD candidate in the Clinical Exercise and Respiratory Physiology Laboratory (Supervisor: Prof. Dennis Jensen), won for her presentation titled:
Impact of trigeminal nerve stimulation on measures of central inspiratory neural drive with implications for management of breathlessness: A systematic scoping review.
Prof. Dennis Jensen, from the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, was recently interviewed by the New York Times on why athletes choose cannabis for pain.
“There’s a lot of anecdotes, there’s a lot of individual athlete reports, but the research does not necessarily support or refute anything that they’re saying as of yet.”
Rachelle Aucoin, PhD Student in the Clinical Exercise and Respiratory Physiology Laboratory, has secured doctoral funding from both the Fonds de Recherche de Québec Santé (FRQS) and the Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CRRN).
She was awarded a 4-year funding package from FRQS totalling $84,000 and a $10,500 scholarship from the CRRN.
Congratulations to our Recipient of 2022 McGill Sports Science Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Supervisor: Dr. Tyler Churchward-Venne
Project Title: Estimates of dietary protein requirements in endurance-trained older male and female Master's athletes as determined by the Indicator Amino Acid Oxidation (IAAO) method
Congratulations to our awardees of this year’s McGill Sports Science Fellowships!
These three students are being awarded fellowships to support their research projects outlined below:
The Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education would like to congratulate this year's NSERC (USRA) Award Recipients.
The Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education would like to congratulate the five recipients of the 2022 Adriano Tassone Internship Award.
Established in 2009 by Vincent and Sabina Tassone along with friends and family, in memory of their son Adriano Tassone, to help Faculty of Education students in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education who have completed U1 and/or U2 gain practical and research experience in Kinesiology through an internship award.
Congratulations to KPE's George Shi for being awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Quebec Rehabilitation Research Network (REPAR).
Title of George Shi's work: “Implementation of hospital-based peer support program for people living with spinal cord injury.”
George Shi is a PhD Candidate with Dr. Shane Sweet's Theories and Interventions in Exercise and Health Psychology (TIE) Lab.