Catching Up

It's been quite some time since my last blog post.  Things got really busy with the spring semester and I forgot to post.  I'd like to take this time to brag on some of our students in the kinesiology department. Towards the end of the semester, we had students present at two separate research forums.  The first was the honors college undergraduate research forum, and the second was the college of education's research forum.  Whitney Ray and Amari Kimble presented a research poster that examined the effects of chronic ankle instability on landing kinetics and dynamic balance.  Jodi Brown and Wesley Gordon presented a research poster that examined the effects of limb dominance on landing kinetics and dynamic balance.  The students did a great job with their presentations, and Jodi won the award for the best undergraduate research poster for the college of education.  Additionally, Whitney won the college of education's undergraduate student research award for the 2013-2014 academic year.  Whitney did a great job assisting Dr. Holmes and myself with research this past year and she was very deserving of the award.  We were also very busy collecting data for a study examining the biomechanics of selected track and field events out at Starkville High School.  We hope to analyze most of the data this summer and then resume data collection in the fall once school starts again.  Below are some pictures of the presentations from the research forums.

 Jodi and Wesley's presentation at the honors college forum

 Whitney and Amari's presentation at the honors college forum

  Jodi's winning presentation at the college of education research forum