Inside Look

Senior Katie Atkinson was one of nine students and one alumnus who received awards at the Department of Exercise and Sport Science Honor Awards Day ceremony on May 13 at EKU. Atkinson, a native of Westchester, Ohio and a Physical Fitness and Wellness Management major, also garnered the Service Merit Award for her extensive list of service activities at EKU. 

Twenty Exercise and Sport Science students presented posters at the second annual College of Health Sciences Scholarship Day held April 19 at the EKU Center for the Arts. The scholarly work reflected individual and student-faculty research, case studies and literature reviews in athletic training, sport management, coaching, exercise physiology, human performance and fitness.

Graduate student Michelle Kuzma received an outstanding poster award for her poster, "Current Concussion Knowledge and Return-to-Learn Management Guidelines for Educational Professionals" at the College of Health Sciences "Celebrating Student Scholarship: Improving Kentucky's Health" event on April 30th at the EKU Center for the Arts.

In 2010 Kayla Bowman was a senior Physical Education major in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science. She now works for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a non-profit group founded by the Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association.