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Students to Present at ACSM's Annual Meeting

                                          

Alma Students to Present at ACSM Midwest Regional Chapter's Annual Meeting, October 5-7, 2006

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is the world's largest sports medicine and science organization.  It prides itself on the efforts of its members to apply their knowledge of sports medicine and exercise science to promote healthier lifestyles for people around the world.  Members of the ACSM organization span throughout the health fields and work together in an effort to advance the science of exercise. 

For more on ACSM you can visit their website at www.acsm.org

We are happy to announce that three students from Alma College, Jaci Wilkie, Andrew Wolford and Trisha MacConnell, have been accepted to present their research at the

Midwest Regional Chapter Annual Meeting on Friday, October 6, 2006.  This years annual meeting is being held at Central Michigan University's Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions.  Below are links to these three students abstracts.

We are also happy to announce that Dr. John Davis will be leading a Symposium on Friday, October 6, 2006 on
Exercise Performance and Training at High Altitude.  

 We would like to wish these students good luck and congratulate them on their efforts to further advance the science of exercise!

 Trisha MacConnell:

ACUTE EFFECTS OF STATIC AND PROPRIOCEPTIVE NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION (PNF) STRETCHING ON MUSCLE STRENGTH AND RANGE OF MOTION 

Andrew Wolford:

EFFECT OF HYPOXIA ON GRADED PRE-SYNCOPAL LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE TOLERANCE  

 

 

Posted: Tue, September 26th, 2006 at 6:01PM

 

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Graduate Profile

Brandon Smith
Graduation: 2008
Major: Exercise and Health Science
Minor: Chemistry

Brandon Smith hopes his interest in the human body combined with his major in exercise and health science will earn him a spot in medical school in the fall of 2008.

“The Exercise and Health Science Department at Alma has classes that focus on function in physiology, structure in anatomy and even pathology in human diseases,” the Harrisville senior says. “I hope that I will discover an area of medicine that will call me in the way that the EHS program here did.”

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