Kinesiology Graduate Book Club

Our Graduate Program Book Club meeting was launched back in August 2003 and it has become one of our signature annual events.   Over the summer, graduate students and faculty read the chosen book and come together after the opening school year luncheon for a book discussion.

These are the previous year’s book club selections:

  • Fall 2009 - Our Underachieving Colleges (2005) by Derek Bok (Princeton University Press)
    Our Underachieving Colleges
  • Fall 2008 - Cantor’s Dilemma (1991) by Carl Djerassi (Penguin Books)
    Cantor's Dilemma
  • Fall 2007 - Betrayal of Trust: the Collapse of Global Public Health (2001) by Laurie Garrett (Hyperion)
    Betrayal of Trust
  • Fall 2006 - The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005) by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
    The World Is Flat
  • Fall 2005 - What the best college teachers do (2004) by Ken Bain (Harvard University Press)
    What the best College Teachers do
  • Fall 2004 - The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests (2000) by Howard Gardner (Penguin Books)
    The Disciplined Mind
  • Fall 2003 - The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1980) by James S. Watson  (W.W. Norton)
    The double Helix