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TISS speaker series launches with a panel discussion on the potential of AI within sport science & medicine
Posted:On September 13, Jacobs, who is a professor and former dean at the U of T Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE), hosted the institute’s first speaker series with a panel discussion on…
FIBA Basketball World Cup results explained: Q & A with Ira Jacobs & Allon Bross
Posted:Jacobs is a professor of exercise physiology and former dean in the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education (KPE), and director of the University of Toronto Tanenbaum Institute for Science in…
2023 Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth & Reconciliation Commemoration
Posted:The University of Toronto will commemorate the day on Friday, September 29th with remarks from Alexandra Gillespie, Vice-President & Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga, and Rose Patten…
Coming full circle: KPE alum Sabrina Razack appointed assistant professor at the Faculty
Posted:Razack graduated with a PhD from KPE with a collaborative specialization in women and gender studies. Her doctoral research, Joy as a mode of resistance: Black Girl Hockey Club’s ongoing quest for…
Canadian Disability Participation Project, featuring KPE researcher as co-investigator, awarded $2.5 million in SSRHC Partnership Grant
Posted:“This grant builds on the CDPP 1.0 project, also funded via a SSHRC Partnership Grant in 2013, to address issues of inequitable access to quality physical activity for Canadians with disabilities,”…
Meet Zainab Bilal, KPE’s 2023 Pearson scholar
Posted:“I’ve been studying sciences my whole life—chemistry, physics, biology… and anatomy in particular. Learning about the human body is almost like uncovering a story. It’s mesmerizing,” she said.
The…
Catherine Sabiston receives SSHRC Partnership Grant for research project focusing on girls and youth in sport
Posted:Catherine Sabiston, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education (KPE) knows sport has the power to transform lives and boost mental health.
“Community…
Welcome to the 2023/24 academic year: a message from Dean Gretchen Kerr
Posted:Welcome to the 2023-24 academic year at the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education!
I hope you’ve had a fantastic summer, one replete with rest, connection, movement and play. As the summer…
KPE alum takes his skills around the world with Swimming Canada
Posted:When Ron Castro graduated from the University of Toronto's undergraduate kinesiology program in 2005 (then called the Bachelor of Physical Education & Health), his career direction was decidedly…
Could psychedelics be used to help manage athletes' mental health?
Posted:Why do people who take DMT, a powerful psychedelic drug, feel a strong sense of familiarity about places, things or entities that are not a part of waking life?
David Lawrence, a medical director at…
KPE welcomes new faculty member, Indigenous scholar Tricia McGuire-Adams
Posted:She received her PhD from the Faculty of Health Sciences (Human Kinetics) at the University of Ottawa, from which she published a book titled Indigenous feminist gikendaasowin (knowledge):…
Talk It Out, Work It Out: collaboration between U of T social work and kinesiology marries mental and physical health for local seniors
Posted:It’s Friday morning and the Jane/Finch Centre is rocking to the soca groove of Kevin Rougier and Mr. Legz.
Inside, the revelers, all of them seniors, are up out of their chairs. One 83-year-old…