Mentoring
UAH Honor’s Day Charger Blue asked students did any factuly or staff have a particular impact on them this year [2024]
“Dr. Sara Harper, Kinesiology. She has been the most motivated professor I have ever had. She's put in so much effortin helping out all of the students doing research and I am very thankful for her!”
Spring 2024 UAH Women’s Lacrosse, Faculty Appreciation Night
2024 SEACSM Conference
2024 SEACSM Conference
Excellent photoshop work by Chayston Brown (KHS Department representing at the SWACSM Conference)
Chayston Brown presented his work on inter-step height variation
Bonny Lu presented her work on reaction times altered by an ACL tear
Liz Cafferty presented her work on older adult coactivation response in acute recovery
Aric Turner presented his work on the relationship of the Reacstick(R) inhibition accuracy and inhibitory control during balance recovery
Visual Contrast Enhancement for Fall Risk Reduction
Every day, adults risk falling on the stairs, jeopardizing their health and wellbeing. The risk of these falls may be reduced, however, through simple changes in the environment. The purpose of our investigation is to assess the real-world effectiveness of such environmental changes through the addition of black vinyl stair edge highlighters on each step and vertical ‘black and white’ striping on the face of the bottom and top steps to reduce stumbles and the associated consequences of falls. In addition, we are also examining factors that affect the ability to recover from a stumble such as how close the nearest handrail is and whether distractions are present (e.g. mobile device use). While the independent effect of these factors on fall risk and severity may be obvious, how their interaction affects fall risk and severity is not.
Utah State Today - Filling the Gaps in Stair Safety
Students Mentored: Alex Braeger, master’s, Kenneth Harrison, master’s, Samantha Corbridge, UG, Christopher Long, UG, Shandon Poulsen, UG, Brevin Zollinger, UG, Emmalee Rolfe, UG, Travis Boman, UG, Amy Hale, UG, McKay Wilding, UG, Chayston Brown, UG.
Spring 2021 student presentations:
Travis Boman : https://symposium.foragerone.com/2021-usu-student-research-symposium/presentations/22158
*Samantha Corbridge and Christopher Long : https://symposium.foragerone.com/2021-usu-student-research-symposium/presentations/21440
*Students were awarded the 2021 Student Research Symposium Social Sciences and Education Oral Presentation Award. https://symposium.foragerone.com/2021-usu-student-research-symposium
Distraction’s influence on handrail use and successful stairway negotiation - accepted by the Journal of Safety Research (Spring 2022).
Relationship of eccentric strength and forward perturbation restabilization after foot contact
Parker Carroll, 2022 Student Research Symposium
Cody Overson, 2022 Student Research Symposium
Lower Limb Asymmetries Among Older Adults
Chayston Brown and Daxton Kennington, 2022 Student Research Symposium
Blocking a Balance Recovery Step
Chase Mitton and Charlie Baggett, 2022 Student Research Symposium
Charlie Baggett, Chase Mitton, and Keaton Reel at the 2022 Student Research Symposium
The connections between musculoskeletal injury and global reaction
Keaton Reel, 2022 Student Research Symposium
Leandra Ashworth, a master’s student in the Kinesiology department, recently was awarded Master’s Student Researcher of the Year for the College of Education. After receiving this award, Leandra, among other Master’s Student Researchers, was nominated for a Robins Award this past week.
Thesis: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/1643/
Relationship of eccentric strength and forward perturbation restabilization
Students Mentored: Leandra Ashworth, master’s, Cody Overson, UG, Andrew Simonson, UG, Parker Carroll, UG, Tate Burch, UG.
Developing a method of assess response inhibition during a balance recovery step
Students Mentored: Molly Anderson Rowley, Jayme Warner
Molly Anderson Rowley and Jayme Warner (pictured) from the USU URCO-funded research.