Human Kinetics

people on treadmillsPeople supported by Community Living Essex County get in twice-weekly physical activity at the Toldo Lancer Centre as part of the Adapted Physical Exercise (APEX) program created and run by professors and students from the Faculty of Human Kinetics.

Exercise program helps adults with disabilities stay active

People supported by Community Living Essex County get in twice-weekly physical activity as part of the Adapted Physical Exercise (APEX) program.
Girls in Motion participants are introduced to poundfit.Girls in Motion, hosted Friday by the Faculty of Human Kinetics and Leadership Advancement for Women in Sport, aims to keep teenaged girls physically active. Here, participants are introduced to poundfit, which incorporates drumming in exercise.

Girls in Motion brings on the beat

Girls in Motion aims to keep teenaged girls physically active.
Hugh MacIsaacHugh MacIsaac of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research has been awarded $275,000 over five years under the Natural Sciences and Environmental Research Council of Canada’s Discovery grant program to assess interacting stressors in lakes.

Professors receive more than $4.1 million for scientific and engineering research

More than $4 million in federal research funds will support scientists and students to become global leaders in their fields.
Mason Sheppard, Wanda Nahdee, raised garden bedMHK student Mason Sheppard and Wanda Nahdee, program manager of the Aboriginal Child Resource Centre, pose with the raised garden bed which will enable persons with disabilities to participate in outdoor education.

Accessible garden product of collaboration

A project built a universally-designed raised garden bed outside the Aboriginal Child Resource Centre, and collaboration with the community.