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Graduate Student Research Day - 2009.
The HHP department held The 2009 Graduate Student Research Day on October 21st, 2009. Dr. Nicole Hare, wellness director for the City of Houston, was the key note speaker for the event. 11 graduate students presented their research. The proceedings of HHP's Graduate Student Research Day have been published by the International Journal of Exercise Science.
Dr. Nicole Hare, Wellness Director for the City of Houston
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Below is the list of graduate students who presented at GSRD. An abstract of each paper is available on the website of the International Journal of Exercise Science.
| Mark Knoblauch | Sweat Collection for Bone Marker Monitoring: Phase 1–– Protocol Development |
| Penny Wilson | Depression and Percent Body Fat Are Associated With Binge Eating In a Community-Based Sample of African American and Hispanic/Latina Women. |
| Scherezade Mama | The Relationship between Body Image and Physical Activity in African American Women |
| Kristen McAlexander | Physical Activity Resource Attributes and Obesity in Low-Income African Americans |
| Ygnacio Lopez | Body Composition Assessment Methods: A Systematic Review and Recommendations |
| Kelley Strohacker | Monocyte Phenotype Differences in Young and Old Mice |
| Whitney Breslin | Daily Variation in Monocyte Subsets and Toll-like Receptor 2 and 4 Expression in Young and Old Mice |
| Katie Carpenter | Voluntary Exercise Causes Greater Weight Loss in Obese Mice |
| Guillaume Spielmann | The Role of Leptin and Physical Inactivity in the Premature Senescence of T-lymphocytes in Obesity |
| Vladimir Ivkovic | Cortical Activation Patterns During Postural Challenges |
| John Ward | The Muscular Benefits of 13 Weeks of Functional Electrical Stimulation Cycling After Spinal Cord Injury |
Below are some images from GSRD 2009.
Images by Joy Wilson