Kinesiology Department Grad Assistants + Fellows

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Harshavardhan Agashe is a doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Introduction : Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Introduction : Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : I practiced and taught pediatric physical therapy in Taiwan before my Ph.D. study. Through my clinical practice, I develop a deep interest in understanding the seemly simple but fundamentally important task: maintaining balance when standing upright. In my Ph. D. study, I work with Dr. Jane Clark, Dr. John Jeka and Dr. Tim Kiemel on several projects surrounding this central theme. To better understand postural development and its dysfunction, I study both typically developing (TD) children and children with motor coordination issues (e.g.children with Developmental Coordination Disorder, DCD). I implement multisensory manipulations (visual and haptic information) in order to characterize sensory contributions to posture development. Specifically my research provides a developmental profile of multisensory reweighting to postural development in children 4 to 10 years old. This multisensory reweighting profile has been extended in children with DCD to understand the mechanisms of their postural deficits. Apart from understanding multisensory contribution to postural development, I am also interested in the control aspect of postural development. Currently, I am working on a newly developed protocol which is capable of characterizing the developing plant (the body and the musculo-tendon structures) and the feedback mechanisms involved in postural development. I will implement both sensory and mechanical perturbations, and measure both postural sway and electromyographic responses to understand the contributions of the plant and the feedback to postural development. In the future, I will study these postural development mechanisms in functional tasks (e.g.reaching in standing, gait initiation, and visual tracking). My overall research goal is to achieve solid understanding of postural development and the mechanisms underlying its deficits. I am committed to apply this knowledge for theory driven interventions and to translate them into clinical practices. Potential populations are children with chronic otitis media, children with ataxia, and children with cerebral palsy.

Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies

Introduction : Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Research Focus : Biomechanics

Introduction : Brian Baum is a Doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : Angela Bennett is a Doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Introduction : Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies

Introduction : Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies

Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Introduction : Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : My research interests are the in the area of physical activity and physical fitness effects on obesity, cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors in children, adolescents and adults. Specifically, I am interested in the progression of the clustering of physiological risk factors (Metabolic Syndrome). My future research interests include the individual effects of diet, exercise and the combination of diet plus exercise on obesity, Metabolic Syndrome and novel risk factors for chronic disease including inflammatory markers such as CRP, TNF-alpha, IL-6 and IL-10.

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Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies

Introduction : I am a Master's student in the Physical Cultural Studies program. I received my B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland in December 2005 and clearly love being a Terp, or else I wouldn't have stuck around for grad school! I have many research interests, but I am currently examining the gendered, classed, and racilialized characteristics of U.S. field hockey. I am also looking to explore the many facets of body modification and discriminatory acts associated with various forms of modification. I am a Maryland native and have a fondness in my heart for crabcakes and football. In my free time I am a wannabe artist and I play as much field hockey as I possibly can. I am one of those crazy goalie folk and am proud to be the captain of the DC Dragons Women's Field Hockey Club. Go Terps!

Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Introduction : Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies

Introduction : I am currently in the Ph.D. program working with Dr. David Andrews. My dissertation is an analysis of the social and cultural construction of gendered bodies in a post-socialist society. In particular, I am examining intersections of capitalism, post-communism, physical activity, and the body in order to reveal the distinct nature of an emergent consumer culture and the consequent socio-cultural effects on identity formation in Romania. Over the past three years I've spent about six months in Romania learning the language and collecting data for my research, all the while enjoying the people, culture and delicious cuisine. I received a B.A. in Biology and Foreign Language at St. Mary's College of Maryland and an M.A. in International Communication at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. I am a native Washingtonian raised in Maryland where I currently reside and play field hockey for the Washington Field Hockey Association and volleyball for the Chinese Youth Club.

Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies

Introduction : Perry Cohen is a second year PhD student in the Physical Cultural Studies Program at the University of Maryland and a TA for KNES 287. Her research interests include how women use alternative and extreme sport as a site of both conformity and resistance to traditional notions of femininity and masculinity. She is also interested in the effect of team-based management strategies on the physical labor of warehouse employees. Perry is currently pursuing research projects on the discourse surrounding transsexual athlete participation in the Olympic Games and on the efficacy of team-based motivational strategies upon manual warehouse laborers. Perry completed her M.S. in Sport Administration at the University of New Mexico and her B.A. in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. At the University of Pennsylvania Perry was the goalkeeper on Penns varsity womens soccer team and the scrum-half for the Pennsylvania Womens Rugby Football Club. Perry is an avid telemark skier and cyclist.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : I am a Ph.D. student in the Neuorscience and Cognitive Science program and Graduate Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology. I have a B.S in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior from the University of California, Davis and I worked at the National Science Foundation as a Science Assistant prior to entering the NACS program in Fall 2006. The sensory-motor research I do utilizes neuroimaging methods that specialize in high temporal resolution including an electroencephalography (EEG) investigation of brain processes and precision psychomotor performance. In addition I have studied the activity of the sensorimotor cortex mu rhythm during observation of biological and non-biological motion measured with magnetoencephalography (MEG). In my current position at the National Institutes of Health, I assist with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies for the Language Section of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. My current project deals with a fMRI dataset looking at modality independent components of semantic comprehension.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Robert Creath is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies

Introduction : Michael Friedman is a Doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Jay Goldstein is a Research Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : My research interests are in the area of strength training, muscle physiology, and cancer. Here at Maryland, my work has focused on older adults and their responses to strength training, and their improvements in physical function. Currently, we are working on a project that examines genetic aspects that may be associated with muscle fatigue. In the future, I would like to continue to investigate the use of strength training to treat the side effects associated with cancer treatments, with the hopes of improving quality of life.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Alexander Hooke is a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Pedagogical Studies

Introduction : Christine Hopple is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Juanfeng is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : I am a first-year PhD student in exercise physiology under the direction of Dr. Hagberg. I am originally from Marietta, GA and attended the University of Georgia for my undergraduate and master's degrees in Exercise Science and Exercise Physiology. I am interested in endothelial progenitor cells as a novel exercise target in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease.

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Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Linzi Jones is a Masters student in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : My research areas are motor behavior and control, neuromuscular biomechanics, human motion analysis, machine design, and finite element analysis.

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Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Maureen is a Doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Bradley King is a David H. Clarke Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Research Focus : Sport Psychology

Introduction : Gretchen is a masters student in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : JoAnn Kuo is a Sally J. Phillips Dissertation Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Focus : Sport Consumer Psychology

Introduction : My research interest is in sport marketing and media and currently working with Dr. Stephen McDaniel. Specifically, I am interested in looking at the effects of audience characteristics and emotions on decision making processes in sport media consumption. I received my BS in Sports Science and MS in Sport Marketing from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Prior to doctoral studies at University of Maryland, I have had several working experiences including Octagon, MasterCard Global Sponsorship and Events, Cheil Communications, and MBC-ESPN (ESPNs Korean branch network). I have presented several working papers at the Association for Consumer Research (ACR), North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), and Sport Marketing Association (SMA).

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : Laura Levin is a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : James is a masters student in the department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : Dongmei is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Li-chuan is a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : Michael is a NIH Trainee Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : David Logan is a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : My interests include exercise physiology focusing on aging and genetics.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : Jennifer is a NIH Trainee Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Hyuk is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Melissa is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Jaebum Park is a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Exercise Physiology

Introduction : Jennie is a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience

Introduction : Jeremy is a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.