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Sport & Rec blog: How dog fostering got me outside
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Bernie, seen above, is one of the dogs Sport & Rec blogger Emma Paidra has been fostering over the winter (image courtesy of Emma Paidra)
This past year, I’m confident that I’ve set my personal…
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…
Black History Month feature: Kubet Weston
Posted:When Kubet Weston was approached to join the Varsity Blues rowing team in 1994, she had no idea that it would spark an international career and that she would become a pioneer and advocate for…
Sport & Rec blogger goes to Afro-fusion cardio dance class
Posted:With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, the spirit of love is in the air. It’s important that amidst the Valentine’s Day excitement, the concept of self-love doesn’t get left behind. That’s why…
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…
How KPE's Laura Ellis found a team on the rink and in the classroom
Posted:Teamwork plays a huge role in fourth-year women’s hockey veteran Laura Ellis’ life, both at the rink and in the classroom.
“I love being part of a team. It’s so much fun,” she admitted. “I’ve…
Sport & Rec blog: Movement breaks provide bite-sized physical activity
Posted:Somehow, I don’t think I’m the only student who can say that since March 2020, I often find myself with an aching back and neck from sitting at my laptop for an unspeakable amount of time. With…
Black History Month: Meet John Braithwaite
Posted:John Braithwaite is believed to be the first Black athlete to play on the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's basketball team.
Although he played on the junior team in 1948-49, Braithwaite…
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…
No lab? No problem. KPE student finds benefits to socially distant research
Posted:Michael Rosenblat, left, and Professor Scott Thomas presented a talk at the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology conference in 2018 (image courtesy of Michael Rosenblat)Michael Rosenblat, a…
Sport & Rec blogger goes vogueing online
Posted:I desperately attempt a cat walk, my arms alternating forward motions with each step. Looking at Sport & Rec’s vogue dance online class instructor moving so gracefully, I’ve got to admit, I feel…