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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…
Gretchen Kerr appointed dean of U of T's Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
Posted:Currently the vice-dean, programs and innovation at U of T’s School of Graduate Studies, Kerr will assume her new role at KPE on July 1, 2021 for a five-year term.
Being named dean of KPE marks yet…
‘Resilient and inspiring’: U of T faculty members celebrate students in video message
Posted:“U of T sees how hard the student body is working through this crazy time,” says Fiona Rawle, associate dean, undergraduate, at U of T Mississauga, in the short video.
“I want my students to know…
Student-athlete stories: How Mia Workman’s season-ending knee injury helped shape her career path in KPE
Posted:Not every first-year student-athlete has a storybook beginning to their university careers and that is especially true for third-year Varsity Blues women’s volleyball veteran Mia Workman.
The Ottawa…
Off court and online, U of T basketball coaches offer support to players: CBC
Posted:“It's been a tough time, obviously, not being on the court as much, really trying to make your team essentially become a team – not necessarily on the court. That's been tough,” she said. “But there…