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KPE students can test body’s responses to exercise using computer simulation
Posted:Intrigued, Thomas emailed the authors to find out more about how the app works and how it could be applied in KPE to teach respiratory physiology. He then teamed up with Cathie Kessler, a laboratory…
MPK program to introduce new specializations
Posted:“The four new concentrations align with the expertise and current areas of practice and study of the faculty teaching in the MPK program,” says Ashley Stirling, associate professor and vice dean of…
Dean's update on academic planning for fall 2021 - Updated March 9, 2021
Posted:The prospect of brighter and warmer days ahead is a good reason to provide an update to the KPE community on our planning for the 2021-22 academic year.
The March 8 update from U of T President…
International Women's Day: Celebrating leaders at KPE
Posted:The Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE) is somewhat unique within U of T, in that it has responsibility for both academic programs and co-curricular activities, including campus…
KPE researchers develop policy tool to help improve sport decisions during COVID-19
Posted:Developed in collaboration with the University of Toronto Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, the online policy analysis tool offers best practices from across the Commonwealth to support…
KINections Career Café: BIPOC alumni share stories of career success
Posted:Gerome Manson, bottom right, poses with fellow KPE graduates on convocation day (picture courtesy of Gerome Manson)
Gerome Manson was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to Canada with his family…
The role of cricket in an inclusive city: KPE's Peter Donnelly shares insights in new book by Toronto author
Posted:Cricket has been part of the colonial Canadian imagination longer than the Canadian project itself. According to Peter Donnelly, a University of Toronto professor of sports policy and politics,…
KINections Research Labs Café offers undergraduate students a glimpse into the world of research
Posted:KINections, launched at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to keep KPE students connected and engaged, has been offering a variety of programs and events designed by students for students, including…
KPE snatches four out of 10 SIRC Researcher Practitioner Match Grants
Posted:KPE doctoral student Michael Jorgensen is one of the recipients of the SIRC Researcher/Practitioner Match Grants for a project investigating referee experiences managing concussion injury risk in…
KINections Career Café presents women in kinesiology and physical education
Posted:While the Faculty hosts an annual Career Café that draws a big crowd of alumni to share their career stories with students, Sandhya Mylabathula, a doctoral student at the Faculty, came up with the…
KPE students help keep youth, seniors and special needs groups active during lockdown
Posted:Under the faculty’s KINections program, students filmed themselves performing movement breaks called Movement Minutes for a variety of community partners, including schools, youth groups, children…
Researchers at KPE team up with Ontario University Athletics for anti-racism study
Posted:“With 9,500 student athletes, 200 coaches and 2,000 athletic staff, OUA is an ideal focus of research and action on anti-racism in sport and in education,” says Joseph, an assistant professor in the…