Dana Shannon, a graduate student in HSHP, received the Whalen Symposium Award for Outstanding Student Research for her presentation, The Coach, Parent, Athlete Triad: The Motivational Climate and Participation in Youth Sports. Dana completed this project under the supervision of Drs. Miranda Kaye and Justine...

Drs. Gary Sforzo and Miranda Kaye (Exercise and Sport Sciences) were named 2012 Harnisch Scholars for studying “The effects of Wellness Coaching on health behaviors in an employee population.” Their more information is available at http://www.instituteofcoaching.org/index.cfm?page=harnischscholars

As part of an IC2 project, students in Assistant Professor Miranda Kaye’s (ESS) Research Methods class collaborated with Prevention magazine and writer Natalie Gingrich Mackenzie to assess a fitness program.

Drs. Kaye and Sforzo partnered with Plus One Health Management in NYC to complete a study of wellness education and programming on health outcomes and the resulting manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (JOEM).  The article is expected to be in print by mid-summer and may be published electronically by JOEM before then.  If you have any questions, or desire more information about their work, please feel free to contact the authors via their College emails.

Exercise & Sport Sciences faculty (Gary Sforzo, Miranda Kaye) awarded grant by the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate.