Kane quoted in Orange County Register on 1999 US Women's World Cup Soccer Victory
June 30, 2009

Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor and director of the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in an Orange County Register article "Girls of Summer still making an impact." The article talks about the impact of the victory over the past decade and some of the continued barriers women face in big league sports.

LaVoi, Thul Receive Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle Awards
June 25, 2009

Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D, associate director of the Tucker Center and research associate in the School of Kinesiology, and Chelsey Thul, research assistant in the Tucker Center and graduate assistant in the Physical Activity Social and Behavioral Science area of the School of Kinesiology, were awarded the prestigious Staff Award and a Graduate Student Award respectively from CEHD's Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle at a ceremony on June 16, 2009.

LaVoi to Participate in Keynote Panel at Up2Us Regional Conference
June 22, 2009

Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer in Kinesiology and associate director of the Tucker Center, has been invited to be part of a keynote panel at the Up2Us Regional Conference in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, June 30th. The conference is sponsored in part by the LA84 Foundation .

LaVoi will discuss the role of coaches in facilitating positive youth development. LaVoi is part of the Up2Us Research Advisory Committee and co-developed an Up2Us research paper on "Sports-based youth development for girls", which will be available by late summer.

Barr-Anderson publishes in American Journal of Public Health
June 16, 2009

Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has co-authored an article just published in the American Journal of Public Health:
Melissa C. Nelson, Nicole I. Larson, Daheia Barr-Anderson, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, and Mary Story. Disparities in dietary intake, meal patterning, and home food environments among young adult nonstudents and 2- and 4-year college students. Am J Public Health 2009 99: 1216-1219.

Barr-Anderson awarded New Connections grant
June 16, 2009

Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, has just received a New Connections grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The two-year grant will support Barr-Anderson's work focusing on perceived and objective environmental influences on physical activity among high school girls. The New Connections grant will complement Barr-Anderson's NIH Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) grant to study environmental influences of overweight and obesity among African American adolescent girls.

Becker successfully defends M.A. thesis
June 10, 2009

Erin Becker, 3-year veteran Tucker Center Program Associate and graduate student in sport & exercise psychology, now working for Health Fitness Incorporation, has successfully defended her Masters thesis entitled "Gender Regimes in a Youth Soccer Organization: Homologous Reproduction and Marginalization of Female Coaches." Please join us in congratulating Erin. We will miss her very much.