January 8, 2020
Auburn University School of Kinesiology student Emily Munn was recently selected for the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. She will spend the next 15 months developing and implementing service projects that address the root causes of health disparities in under-resourced communities. As she pursues her doctoral degree in motor development, Munn researches how cognitive functioning is affected […]
November 4, 2019
Compound Solutions, Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif. (CSI), has announced a $500,000 investment in Auburn University’s College of Education. CSI is an innovative company representing and distributing unique, patented nutraceutical ingredients that improve the health and performance of individuals. “CSI’s commitment to maximizing human potential is evident in both its business and philanthropy,” said Duante Stanton, […]
September 6, 2019
A professor in the College of Education is collaborating with Auburn University engineering faculty to help promote student engagement in the STEM disciplines. In 2018, the National Science Foundation funded a research grant — “Framing Engineering as Community Activism for Values-Driven Engineering”– to support an interdisciplinary collaboration between three engineering professors and Dr. Joni Lakin […]
September 4, 2019
James Lindner, a professor in the Agriscience Education program in the COE’s Department of Curriculum and Teaching, has been named as a Senior Fellow in the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE). The purpose of the Senior Fellow award is to recognize and nourish AIAEE members who have made exceptional and sustained contributions […]
July 30, 2018
The Brain and Behavior Lab studies how the brain controls voluntary movements in healthy people, as well as in people with psychiatric or neurological disorders. Our work is interdisciplinary and crosses boundaries of clinical and cognitive psychology, kinesiology, and neuroscience. We use systems neuroscience techniques such as kinetic and kinematic analysis of movement, functional magnetic […]
May 14, 2018
Who We Are The Critical Studies Working Group is a group of scholars at Auburn University committed to the critical analysis of education. Our critical analysis is centered on understanding cultural, institutional, and structural dynamics that create and perpetuate injustice, inequity, and oppression in education and schooling. Through our teaching, research, outreach, service, and activism, […]
April 26, 2018
The Critical Studies Working Group, led exclusively by College of Education faculty, primarily from the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology, has been recognized with an award from the Auburn University Office of Inclusion and Diversity. The specific recognition is the University Award for Inclusive Excellence and Diversity for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Collaboration. The Working […]
December 7, 2017
The Positive Relationships and Effective Interventions Lab is a counseling psychology research group directed by Marilyn Cornish, Ph.D. Other members of the lab range from undergraduate counseling minors to doctoral students in counseling psychology. A core interest in the lab is psychotherapy process and outcome, with interests branching out to other types of positive relationships […]
October 12, 2017
< KINESIOLOGY LABS Our research program focuses on hypertension, vascular health, and exercise in African Americans. Our research uses complementary human and cell models to address research questions. Specifically, we focus on elucidating the mechanisms by which changes in lifestyle factors lead to beneficial changes in both conventional and non-conventional cardiovascular disease risk factors. We […]
January 10, 2017
The AU Sports Science Camp is an opportunity for rising 9th through 12th grade students nationwide interested in the field of health science, physical activity, and sport performance to learn about the science behind sports. This one-week, residential program provides high school students the opportunity to learn about the research and outreach initiatives in Auburn’s […]
September 8, 2015
<KINESIOLOGY LABS The Sports Medicine and Movement Lab studies sport biomechanics and provides evidence-based injury prevention protocols. Director Gretchen Oliver, Ph.D., FACSM, ATC, and her doctoral students specialize in kinematics, motion analysis, functional assessment, and injury prevention. Gretchen Oliver’s research focuses on injury prevention in youth, collegiate, and professional athletes, and provides strengthening, stretching, and […]
<Kinesiology Labs The Neuromechanics Research Laboratory (NuRL) and the Warrior Research Center (WRC) combine physiology, biomechanics, engineering, motor control, neurophysiology, functional movement and sports medicine to investigate the neuromuscular and physiological effects of orthopedic and neuromuscular injury with the goal of developing new prevention, treatment and rehabilitation methods. Our work is done with a focus […]
< KINESIOLOGY LABS In Physical Education Teacher Education, Jared Russell, Ph.D., seeks to promote diverse climates and to study the relationships among students, teachers, and interns. His research initiated with physical education diversity and has expanded to diversity in other areas. His scholarship and outreach efforts focus on issues of diversity in higher education, graduate student […]
