Name |
Discipline |
Research interests |
Burns, Liz
Associate Professor
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Teaching Physical Education and Sport |
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Goggin, Noreen
Professor |
Motor Behavior |
- Aging and Movement Control
- Motor Development
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Gonzales, Joaquin U.
Assistant Professor |
Exercise Physiology |
- Age- and sex-specific difference in vascular function
- Clinical consequences of vascular aging
- Impact of daily physical activity on vascular health
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Griffin, Kent
Assistant Professor |
Teaching Physical Education and Sport |
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Hart, Melanie
Interim Chair and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences |
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Lochbaum, Marc
Professor
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Exercise & Sport Psychology |
- Personality, achievement goals, and motivation for physical activity
- Personality, achievement goals, and sport performance/mental performance strategies
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Massengale, Dana
Assistant Professor |
Sport Management |
- Social issues in sport
- Diversity in sport organizations
- Women's leadership in sport
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McComb, Jacalyn
Professor
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- Complementary medicine evidence based interventions designed to decrease stress vulnerability. Dependent variables include, but are not limited to, heart rate variability, the cortisol response, and immune function, specifically the pro-inflammatory and the anti-inflammatory cytokines
- Female athlete triad: eating disorders, amenorrhea, osteoporosis
- Psychological distress on luteinizing hormone pulsatility
- Stress Reactivity and Clinical Pathophysiology
Exercise and Mindfulness Based Interventions to Minimize Stress Vulnerabilty
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Melton, Nicole
Assistant Professor |
Sport Management
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- Examining diversity and inclusion in sport organizations
- Exploring how the power of sport can influence attitudinal and social change
- Understanding how employee attitudes and behaviors can impact social change in sport
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Nite, Calvin
Assistant Professor |
Sport Management |
- Understanding the identity development of college athletes and how athletic administrators, coaches, and university faculty/administrators influence college athlete development.
- Understanding the rationales for athletic department spending habits; particularly of those universities whose athletic departments routinely operate with budget deficits.
- Stakeholder perceptions of athletic department business practices.
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Omli, Jens
Assistant Professor |
Exercise & Sport Psychology |
- My research efforts focus on identifying ways in which parents and coaches behave at youth sport events, and understanding how these behaviors influence health and performance outcomes in children. I am also involved in international sport outreach efforts that focus on helping coaches transition from a narrow focus on talent-development and strategy-implementation, to a more comprehensive vision of coaching, which emphasizes personal growth and community development.
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Park, Yoonjung
Assistant Professor |
Exercise Physiology |
- Effect of exercise/physical activity on vascular dysfunction in disease (obesity, type 2 diabetes, aging, etc.)
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Roncesvalles, Maria Nida C.
Associate Professor
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Motor Behavior
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Stock, Matt S.
Assistant Professor |
Strength and Conditioning |
- Adaptations to strength training, muscle fatigue, and issues related to the recruitment and firing characteristics of individual motor units
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Stodden, David
Associate Professor |
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Tacón, Anna
Associate Professor |
Community Health
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- Complementary therapies/Mind-Body strategies with Cancer Patients
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction programs
- Attachment style and cancer
- Death and dying
- Psychosocial aspects of health
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Umeda, Masataka
Assistant Professor |
Exercise & Sport Psychology |
- Investigation of the relationship between psychophysical responses to laboratory exercise and free-living physical activity in patients with fibromyalgia
- Investigation of the influence of physical activity levels on central pain modulation in healthy young adults.
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