The McGill Kinesiology & Physical Education Department congratulates Dr. Dennis Jensen for winning the聽Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Published on: 7 May 2019
Professor Julie C么t茅 will be re-appointed as Chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education. Professor C么t茅 has served as Chair of the Department since 2016 and will be serving her second three-year term, effective June 1, 2019.
Dr. C么t茅 received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Physiology Department with the Universit茅 de Montr茅al, and her Master's in Science with the University of Wisconsin's Kinesiology Department.
Published on: 17 Apr 2019
On January 24, Dilson Rassier, Dean of the Faculty of Education, spoke at the United Nations鈥� headquarters in New York as part of the UN鈥檚 inaugural聽International Day of Education, telling delegates that knowledge is the key to a better world.
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Published on: 15 Feb 2019
The聽McGill Kinesiology & Physical Education Department congratulates Dr. Churchward-Venne,聽who聽has聽been selected to receive the .听颁辞苍驳谤补迟耻濒补迟颈辞苍蝉!
Published on: 31 Jan 2019
Do you want to adopt a healthier lifestyle in 2019? Would you like to be more active physically?
Make those 2018 wishes a 2019 reality!
Reach your goal at the new Kinesiology Clinic of McGill鈥檚 Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (Currie Gym, 475 Pine Avenue West). Let the students from kinesiology help you, and you will help them get experience through their practicums. Special fees for McGill community members.
Here are some of the services that the Clinic is offering:
Published on: 6 Dec 2018
When a young athlete suddenly dies of a heart attack, chances are high that they suffer from familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Itis the most common genetic heart disease in the US and affects an estimated 1 in 500 people around the world. A protein called myosin acts as the molecular motor which makes the muscles in the heart contract. Researchers had suspected for some time that the R403Q mutation in some of the myosin genes is among those that play a role in causing HCM. But experiments using mice models failed to show that this was indeed the case.
Published on: 16 Oct 2018
Inhaled vaporized cannabis does not appear to improve or worsen exercise performance and activity-related breathlessness in patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a randomized controlled trial
Published on: 31 Jul 2018
Published on: 26 Jul 2018
Led by Co-Directors Shane Sweet and Lindsay Duncan, of our Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE), the TIE Laboratory was founded to understand the psychosocial determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance, and to promote this health behaviour through interventions.
Published on: 7 Jun 2018
The ATTSVE project is pleased to announce their interns for the summer of 2018. For the first time each of the Faculty of Education's three departments are represented by the interns in the cohort.
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Published on: 5 Jun 2018
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Tyler Churchward-Venne, Assistant Professor with our Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE), has been named as a聽William Dawson Scholar聽by McGill University.
Published on: 1 Jun 2018
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Published on: 3 May 2018
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has announced that Shannon Herrick, master's student with the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, has been named as a finalist for the 2018 SSHRC Storytellers contest.
Published on: 1 May 2018
Vanessa Smith,聽Internships and Student Affairs Officer with our Office of Internships and Student Affairs (ISA), has been nominated for McGill's聽Dean of Students Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising.
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Published on: 9 Apr 2018
David Pearsall, Associate Professor in our聽Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education,聽聽this week on the topic of avoid falls on the city's icy sidewalks.
Published on: 6 Feb 2018
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