Join our KIP students, Jamie Phillips and Isaac Wedig, this week for the presentation at the virtual Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, June 1-5th. Contributors from KIP and Biology include Phillips, J., Wedig, I.J., Laiho, A.M., Phelps, Miodonski, G.J., Huhta, E., Miller, C.N., Thivierge, G., Elmer, S.J., Exercise is Medicine on Campus at Michigan Tech: Promoting Physical Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic. #kipmichtech#acsm#exerciseismedicine#MTU
Join us tonight (May 27) from 7-8 p.m. for the COVID-19 Community Town Hall. The topic will be “Health and Well Being During the Pandemic and Beyond.”
Organized by the Health Research Institute at Michigan Tech, the 60-minute town hall broadcast can be heard live at 7 p.m. on radio stations 97.7 The Wolf (WOLV-FM) and 99.1 (WIKB-FM) and viewed through a Zoom webinar and Facebook Live. The town hall can also be viewed on ABC 10 Sunday (May 30) at 12 p.m.
Town hall moderators Steven Elmer and Kelly Kamm (HRI/KIP) will be joined by:
For more information and past broadcasts, visit the COVID-19 Town Hall Series website.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners for the World Water Day Coursework/Informational Award were all students in Dr. Kelly Kamm’s Epidemiology course this past semester. Congrats to Thomas Basala, Kailee Doak and Mary Lyons!!
The AKA Kinesiology Today Spring 2021 issue highlighted an article written by KIP Assistant Professor Dr. Kelly Kamm and her students about the importance of staying active during COVID-19
Everyone welcome and undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to attend. No registration needed.
Please join our Academic Advisor, Tayler Haapappuro, on April 20th at 7pm via Zoom. Tayler will provide information about the MTU- CMU Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT) program held here at Michigan Tech. The physical therapy program offered through The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions at CMU is a professional graduate curriculum three years in length. Graduates of the program are awarded a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree (DPT). The program has received approval by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). Please RSVP to Tayler at tmhaapap@mtu.edu for Zoom meeting address and password.
On April 17th MTU’s Graduate Student Government (GSG) along with the UP and Moving Program in the Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology will host a live virtual 5km event at 10am. The event is free and open to students, staff, faculty, and community members from near and far!
Join us at 10am on Zoom for a warm-up, welcome activity, and photo! The virtual 5km will consist of two different ways to participate. Follow along with us on Zoom for a fun and exciting movement-based workout that will accumulate the total number of steps needed to cover the 5k distance. Alternatively, walk, run, or hike your own 5k outdoors or indoors.
The event is a joint celebration of GSG’s “A Night Out” and UP and Moving’s 100th live home-based workout.
For those individuals that cannot make the live virtual event, the 5km distance can be completed anytime between April 10-24th. Registered participants can receive a free t-shirt. For more information visit the UP andMoving website and click here for the GSG registration link.
It is becoming more important for everyone to “move more” and “sit less” because regular physical activity promotes good health and bolsters immune function. #KIPMichTech #UPandMoving #HRI_MTU #superiorideas #ExerciseisMedicine @ACSMEIM
Click here to learn more: https://www.superiorideas.org/projects/up-and-moving
This is from last weeks COVID-19 Town Hall Series regarding health disparities. Obesity and lack of activity contributing to COVID. Read more here.
To help contain the spread of COVID-19, both on campus and in the local community, Michigan Tech has recruited and trained a team of student volunteers who help the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department (WUPHD) by conducting contact tracing in our campus community. The team is led by Dr. Kelly Kamm, an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology. Dr. Kamm is also part of the MTU Flex team.
https://www.mtu.edu/magazine/research/2021/stories/pandemic-toolbox/