Health & Human Performance

Physical education and health majors Morgan Bailey and Stephen Rusterholz, and exercise science major Jasmine Jackson, alongside Assistant Professor in Health and Human Performance Amy Stringer, presented their research at the National Association of Kinesiology and Physical Education in Higher Education in San Diego, Calif.

Amy Stringer, assistant professor of health and human performance, presented at The National Association of Kinesiology and Physical Education in Higher Education conference on Jan. 7, 2012 in San Diego, Calif.

A wellness program for local fourth and fifth graders concluded Tuesday at the Koury Athletic Center when two dozen boys learned about physical fitness and setting goals from their Elon University mentors. And if Elon junior Brett Brawerman has his way, the CHAMPS program – short for “Coaching Health and Mentoring Positive Students” – will be something colleges elsewhere can replicate.

Liz Bailey, lecturer in the Department of Health and Human Performance, was selected to receive the 2011 Outstanding Graduate Student Alumni Award from Wake Forest University's Department of Health and Exercise Science.

Carol A. Smith, associate professor in health & human performance, recently presented two sessions at the Southern District of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance annual conference, held in Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 16-18.

Amy Stringer , assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance, Katherine Jamieson, and Elon students Morgan Bailey, Michelle Pullen, and Jaclyn Wood, presented their research at the Southern District conference for the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in Greensboro, North Carolina.

For many people, it just isn’t New Year’s without a traditional resolution, and “losing weight” is always a popular pledge. Elizabeth Bailey in the Department of Health and Human Performance shares advice for not just making fitness resolutions, but keeping them, in the first of an occasional series of videos where Elon University faculty members share their research and classroom expertise.

Professors Lynda Storsved and Carol Smith presented at the NCAAHPERD 63rd Annual Convention “Get Up, Get Moving” from Nov. 11-13, 2010.

Dr. Carol Smith, associate professor in the Health and Human Performance Department, was elected Vice-President of the North Carolina Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance for 2010-2011 during its annual conference held Nov. 10-13 in Winston-Salem.