Kinesiology

The Department of Kinesiology was formed in 1990, and has evolved over the years into a multidisciplinary academic unit including degree programs in athletic training, health promotion and health equity, kinesiology, occupational therapy, and physical education. Our mission is to create, interpret, transmit, and apply knowledge related to movement, exercise, and human occupation with the ultimate goal of enhancing human health, productivity, and quality of life.

There will be two different lab opportunities, the Motor Behavior Lab and the Environmental and Exercise Physiology Lab within the Department of Kinesiology.

The Motor Behavior Lab is a research lab in the Kinesiology Department at UW-Madison. The goal of our research group is to understand how people use what they see and feel to plan and perform movements such as walking and picking up and using objects. Our research studies look at how we perform movements in both real and virtual environments.

The Environmental and Exercise Physiology lab  is a research lab in the Kinesiology Department at UW-Madison. The goal of our research group is to understand how blood flow is regulated to brains and muscles, and how this is changed by obesity related conditions like prediabetes. We are also interested if men and women differ in how they regulate blood flow.  Low blood flow is linked to many common cardiovascular diseases, so understanding why blood flow changes may lead to interventions to prevent or reverse problems.   We measure blood flow at rest and under stress conditions like exercise, heat, or low oxygen to uncover differences and explore mechanisms of control.

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