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Congrats to Dr. Pankey on receiving a grant to upgrade computers in the Biomechanics/Motor Control Lab. Also congrats to Luzita Vela on her grant for new technology equipment in the Athletic Training Lab. Thanks for all your hard work to make it happen!
Heather Gardner, one of our undergraduate Therapeutic Recreation (TR) students and Sports Management graduate students just got the TR job at the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio working with the military amputees and burn survivors. She will be doing community re-entry and adaptive sport and Paralympic training. The Adaptive Sport Club of Texas State will be working with her on training these athletes. Congratulations to her!
Tinker Murray, Ph.D., FACSM (HPER) presented two posters at the 2nd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health held in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on 4/13/08 to 4/16/08. Dr. Murray was the lead author on poster #13 entitled, "Modifying Secondary School Physical Education Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA),” which focused on increasing MVPA in eight San Antonio ISD high schools in the spring of 2007. His co-authors on the poster were Kampol Surapiboonchai (COE Ph.D. student), Josh Wilson (HPER master's student), Roger Rodriguez (San Antonio ISD HPE Coordinator), and James "Zero" Eldridge (Associate Professor, The UT @ Permian Basin). Dr. Murray co-authored a second poster, #71 entitled, "Effects of Telephone-Based Coaching on Physical Activity in a Corporate Setting," which involved worksite health prevention for 4,146 employees representing 5 companies. Gijs van Oort, Ph.D. (President of Practiva Health) was the lead author and he is a distinguished alumnus of the HPERD department from SWT.
Dr. Murray also attended the founding meeting of the new International Society for Physical Activity and Health (sponsored by Human Kinetic Publishers) during the conference. The president of the new society is William Harold Kohl, III, Ph.D., FACSM, who is a Professor of Epidemiology and Kinesiology at the University Of Texas School Of Public Health in Austin. The Congress was attended by ~800 participants representing over 40 countries. The 2010 Congress will be held in Toronto, Canada from May 5-8 and the 2012 conference is scheduled to take place in Australia.
Tinker Murray, Ph.D., FACSM (HPER) presented two posters at the 2nd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health held in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on 4/13/08 to 4/16/08. Dr. Murray was the lead author on poster #13 entitled, "Modifying Secondary School Physical Education Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA),” which focused on increasing MVPA in eight San Antonio ISD high schools in the spring of 2007. His co-authors on the poster were Kampol Surapiboonchai (COE Ph.D. student), Josh Wilson (HPER master's student), Roger Rodriguez (San Antonio ISD HPE Coordinator), and James "Zero" Eldridge (Associate Professor, The UT @ Permian Basin). Dr. Murray co-authored a second poster, #71 entitled, "Effects of Telephone-Based Coaching on Physical Activity in a Corporate Setting," which involved worksite health prevention for 4,146 employees representing 5 companies. Gijs van Oort, Ph.D. (President of Practiva Health) was the lead author and he is a distinguished alumnus of the HPERD department from SWT.
Dr. Murray also attended the founding meeting of the new International Society for Physical Activity and Health (sponsored by Human Kinetic Publishers) during the conference. The president of the new society is William Harold Kohl, III, Ph.D., FACSM, who is a Professor of Epidemiology and Kinesiology at the University Of Texas School Of Public Health in Austin. The Congress was attended by ~800 participants representing over 40 countries. The 2010 Congress will be held in Toronto, Canada from May 5-8 and the 2012 conference is scheduled to take place in Australia.
At the AAHPERD convention in Fort Worth last week, Dr. Kristy Ballard made two poster presentations and was named the 2008-09 Chair of the AAHPERD Student Services Committee.
Britney Webb (HPER) published, "Coaching Update 2008: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), " in the February issue of Texas Coach Magazine. Please see the attached PDF file for a copy of the article.
Kampol Surapiboonchai (COE PhD student mentored by Dr. Murray and Dr. Furney - HPER) presented, "Childhood Obesity and Diabetes," along with Roger Rodriguez (San Antonio ISD Health/PE Coordinator) at the Annual Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Meeting in Odessa, TX on 3/1/08.
Dr. Jack Ransone was recently informed that he has been chosen as a recipient of this year's Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer award from the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA). The award is the highest award available for active athletic trainers. Congratulations to him.
Matt Kutz recently had an article accepted for publication. Citation: Kutz MR. Toward a Conceptual Model of Contextual Intelligence: A Transferable Leadership Construct. Leadership Review, 8(Winter 2008), 18-31.
Bob Pankey, a faculty member in the Texas State University College of Education, spends his days surrounded by expensive machines, monitoring the intricate complexities of muscle tissue and movement. While he’s away from his computers, you can find him introducing various gadgets, plastics, sockets and metals to those in need of his services.
Read the full story reprinted from Texas State Hillviews Magazine Fall/Winter 2007 – PDF-File, 202.7 KBBob Pankey and Jack Ransone received notice that their research on the Acute Effects of Whole Body Vibrations on Balance and Flexibility among College Age Males and Females was accepted for presentation as a poster session at to the 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, being held in Indianapolis in May. Their abstract will be published in the Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Journal, Volume 40:5.
Seventeen faculty members have been awarded Library Research Grants for materials to support their research projects. HPER’s Jacquelyn McDonald was one of the recipients. Congratulations to her.
HPER Graduate Assistant, Angela Fulton, was a recent and unanimous recipient of one of six awards presented to female athletes within the San Marcos community at the annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day banquet on Wednesday, February 6th. Angela received her honor in the "Perseverance" category, which highlights an athletes ability to persist despite adversity or discouragement. Such an athlete strives on through success, failure, and disappointment with nothing less than the attitude that there is pride in even the smallest accomplishments. Achievement, as described of Ms. Fulton, is her glory. In her case, she has undoubtedly showed great perseverance both on and off the field.
This year, the NGWSD committee received a record number of nominees. Angela received her nomination via her work with the Texas State Women's Club Soccer Team, and was amongst tough competition in the perseverance category. She won the honor unanimously, however, as a result of her hard work both on the field as team captain and natural leader and off the field raising her young daughter while working as a Graduate Assistant and maintaining high levels of academic capacity. Later this month, Angela plans to further spread the NGWDS vision by participating in a small soccer clinic for San Marcos youth to create positive opportunity for children. Her aim is to promote the wonderful benefits of sports participation as it relates to keeping youth away from drugs, alcohol, and negative decisions.
Seventeen faculty members have been awarded Library Research Grants for materials to support their research projects. HPER’s Jacquelyn McDonald was one of the recipients. Congratulations to her.
HPER Graduate Assistant, Angela Fulton, was a recent and unanimous recipient of one of six awards presented to female athletes within the San Marcos community at the annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day banquet on Wednesday, February 6th. Angela received her honor in the "Perseverance" category, which highlights an athletes ability to persist despite adversity or discouragement. Such an athlete strives on through success, failure, and disappointment with nothing less than the attitude that there is pride in even the smallest accomplishments. Achievement, as described of Ms. Fulton, is her glory. In her case, she has undoubtedly showed great perseverance both on and off the field.
This year, the NGWSD committee received a record number of nominees. Angela received her nomination via her work with the Texas State Women's Club Soccer Team, and was amongst tough competition in the perseverance category. She won the honor unanimously, however, as a result of her hard work both on the field as team captain and natural leader and off the field raising her young daughter while working as a Graduate Assistant and maintaining high levels of academic capacity. Later this month, Angela plans to further spread the NGWDS vision by participating in a small soccer clinic for San Marcos youth to create positive opportunity for children. Her aim is to promote the wonderful benefits of sports participation as it relates to keeping youth away from drugs, alcohol, and negative decisions.
Dr. David Wiley received the Faculty Development Leave for Fall 2008.
Dr. Lyn Litchke researches concurrent respiratory resistance training and health-related quality of life, improving athletic performance for wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries, but also their health-related quality of life. The funding sources have been the companies who have provided the devices to research. Those are Powerlung from Houston, Tx and Expand-a-lung from Miami, Fla. Litchke has found positive (yet, mixed) results with both devices during the pilot study and subsequent dissertation research, thus more investigation is warranted. The pilot study for this research was accepted for publication in the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine and will be released January 2008. She is continuing this line of research with Breckenridge Hospital and the National Paralysis Foundation in Austin to investigate the use of these devices on improving the lung function and sleep in order to reduce muscle spasms in persons with a spinal cord injury. These organizations will be funding the research. This research is also a collaborative effort with faculty member Chris Russian in Allied Health.
Dr. Tinker Murray attended the 2008 Awards for Excellence in Texas School Health Ceremony (sponsored by the Texas Pediatric Society Foundation and the Texas Health Institute) at the Texas School Health Association Awards Banquet in San Antonio, TX on 1/15/08. Dr. Murray was the guest of the San Antonio ISD and Roger Rodriguez (SAISD Health/PE Director) who received a district-wide Award of Achievement for their coordination and implementation of best practices in health/PE at the elementary, middle-school, and high school levels. Dr. Murray is one of several health/PE team members in the SAISD including individuals like Roger Rodriguez, Roberto P. Trevino, MD (Director of the San Antonio Health and Social Research Center and TX State COE Advisory board member) and Kampol Surapiboonchai (COE Ph.D. student). Dr. David Wiley and Dr. Kelly Wilson were part of the membership/leadership team hosting the function as part of the Annual Texas School Health Association Meeting.
Dr. Jack Ransone has been selected by the USATF, as the medical coordinator for the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Team competing in Beijing China. USA Track and Field (USATF) is the national governing body of track and field in the United States. The team is scheduled to begin training camp in Dalian, China the first week of August in preparation for the Olympic Games.
This is Ransone’s second consecutive Olympic Games on the medical staff. He had the opportunity to serve on numerous cross country, indoor and outdoor world track and field championship teams throughout his 20 year career.
Dr. Steve Furney has been selected to receive the Honor Award, at the 2008 American Alliance for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance National Convention.
This is Ransone’s second consecutive Olympic Games on the medical staff. He had the opportunity to serve on numerous cross country, indoor and outdoor world track and field championship teams throughout his 20 year career.
Dr. Steve Furney has been selected to receive the Honor Award, at the 2008 American Alliance for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance National Convention.
Dr. Tinker Murray recently presented "Adolescent Obesity and Diabetes: Translation Strategies fir Adulthood, the San Antonio Experience," which highlights the work conducted with Dr. Roberto Trevino (San Antonio Health Research Center and the Bienestar Program) and Roger Rodriguez (SAISD Health/PE Coordinator) at the 24th Annual Frontiers of Cardiology Meeting in Winter Park, Co. on 1/5/08. The presentation highlighted obesity and diabetes prevention work conducted at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels in the San Antonio ISD via funding from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Education via a Carol White PEP grant. Dr. Murray also served on the conference planning committee and as a moderator for the final session that focused on Medicine and Science.
Dr. Michelle Pope has been selected to serve as a Presidential Fellow for 2007-2008. Dr. Pope will serve as a member of the President's Cabinet and will assist President Trauth with special projects.
John Moreau has been selected as a judge for the Modern Pentathlon Competition at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Congratulations to him for such an incredible appointment.
Dr. Steve Furney received the Health Education Administrator of the Year Award from the Southern District AAHPERD at their annual conference in Chattanooga, TN last week. Next month he will receive the National Health Education Administrator of the Year award at the AAHPERD Conference in Baltimore.
Dr. David Wiley represented the Centers for Disease Control (Division of Adolescent and School Health) at the HIV Prevention Education meeting in Washington, D.C. last November. Dr. Wiley met with staff members from Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s staff to discuss school health issues in Texas and Texas State University issues.
During the Spring 2007 semester, Dr. Bob Pankey will be working three days a week at the Human Performance Gait Lab with the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. The gait lab is located at the Veterans Hospital next to the UYHSCSA. Dr. Pankey will be involved in research on gait analysis with veterans returning from the war and fitting them with proper prosthetic devices for ambulation and recreation use and will be studying the effects of stochastic resonance (mechanical vibration) to improve balance, circulation and flexibility. Dr. Pankey plans to continue this research in the Jowers Biomechanics lab with representative faculty in the HPER and Physical Therapy Departments.
USATF, the national governing for track and field in the United States, has selected Dr. Jack Ransone as the Head Athletic Trainer for the IAAF World Cross Country Championship. Dr. Ransone has significant experience serving the USATF national team at the 2004 Olympic Games, 2003 Pan American Games and the 2001 World Indoor Championships. The 35th World Cross Country Championships will be celebrated in Mombasa, Kenya, on Saturday, March 24, 2007.
The Division of Educational Research has initiated the Faculty Research Fellows Program for academic year 2006/2007 with awards to Dr. Dawn Lantero and Dr. Tinker Murray. The program is designed to allow faculty to focus intensely on their research endeavors for one semester by affording them financially supported release time from one academic course. The Fellows devote the bulk of the semester's efforts to research and writing on a particular project. They enjoy weekly meetings with the Assistant/Associate Deans for Research and other faculty and/or doctoral students, which serve to strengthen their research skills and solidify their ability to critically design, conduct, and write research within their disciplines. Dr. Lantero’s research focuses on the development of bimanual coordination in typically-developing children with a related and developing research interest being the study of movement in autistic children. Dr. Murray’s primary stream of research is in the area of prevention/treatment of obesity and diabetes in youth. Dr. Murray plans to foster and develop a collaborative Research Center for the Southwest for diabetes prevention/treatment in conjunction with the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, and the Region IV Service Center.