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Varsity Blues Achievement Awards honour student-athletes, celebrate donors
Posted:The VBAAs are an opportunity for donors to see first-hand the impact of their generosity on the lives of the student-athletes they have supported - often meeting them for the first time. The student-…
Playing for Change - How Bruce Kidd inspired a book
Posted:The book was edited by Kidd’s former doctoral student Russell Field, who is now assistant professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba. Yesterday,…
Australian Open overshadowed by allegations of match fixing
Posted:How prevalent is match fixing in sports, in tennis in particular?
Match fixing is directly related to gambling, and it seems to have increased exponentially since international online betting on…
Five ways to keep active and healthy in 2016
Posted:“I definitely use physical activity to manage stress," says undergraduate student Najiba Sardar. "Every time my course load gets a little bit overwhelming, including extracurriculars, it’s nice to go…
Research finds popular free fitness apps are inaccurate and unreliable
Posted:The evaluation was led by Professor Guy Faulkner and KPE master's student Krystn Orr and was published in the journal, BMC Research Notes.
“We know that more and more Canadians want to take their…
Students unwind with Fun Fridays sport series
Posted:Each Fun Friday features a variation on a familiar sport – like innertube water polo, pictured above, or bubble soccer, in which players wear large transparent bubbles that work like bouncy suits of…
Body image and emotion: Investigating why many adolescent girls drop out of sports
Posted:Associate Professor Catherine Sabiston is conducting a study exploring how feelings about appearance—both positive and negative—influence girls’ likelihood to stay involved in sport. Her findings…
Hands-on heart research: a new experience for a kinesiology major
Posted:Tomasi, a fourth-year kinesiology major with the Faculty, was one of five students selected for a summer program that offers upperyear students the chance to work in a laboratory while whetting their…
Can hosting the Pan Am Games make Toronto a healthier city?
Posted:“First of all, a legacy [of health and increased physical activity] needs to be constructed into the bid, with a plan clearly set for putting that money to use,” Donnelly explains. “If it’s not there…