Spring 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series
"Developing Physically Active Girls: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions"
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April 22, 2008
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities West Bank Campus
This spring’s Distinguished Lecture highlighted the 2007 Tucker Center Research Report: Developing Physically Active Girls. Using a panel presentation format, the report’s authors—Barbara Ainsworth, Margaret Duncan, Nicole LaVoi, and Diane Wiese-Bjornstal—provided an overview and summary of key findings and recommendations. The 2007 Tucker Center Research Report is a 10-year update of the ground-breaking 1997 President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Report, Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls. The purpose of the initial report, as well as the 10-year update, was to ask respected scholars in academic fields of study ranging from exercise physiology to sport psychology, to share the latest research findings about how involvement in sport and physical activity enable girls to reach their full potential. Download a flier here.
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Barbara Ainsworth, Professor at Arizona State University, Exercise Physiology. Ainsworth is a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Scientific Advisory Committee. Her research focuses on physical activity assessment and identifying neighborhood environmental supports for physical activity. Ainsworth will discuss the physiological and metabolic dimensions of girls' physical activity such as bone health and chronic disease prevention. |
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Margaret Duncan, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sport Sociology. Duncan studies how social constructions of gender, specifically in the media, influence perceptions of female athletes and their bodies. |
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Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Tucker Center Affiliated Scholar, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. Wiese-Bjornstal's primary research pertains to youth sport and the psychology of sport injury. Her multidisciplinary approach to sport and physical activity participation among youth has appeared in a variety of publications and presentations. |
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Nicole LaVoi, Associate Director of the Tucker Center, Research Associate at the University of Minnesota, Sport Psychology. LaVoi works collaboratively within the Tucker Center and the Minnesota Youth Sport Research Consortium on a variety of research related to girls' physical activity. |
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