Van “DocDoc” Whaley (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) presented The GRATE Plan at the 2026 Western Society for Kinesiology and Wellness (WSKW) Annual Conference to support the theme Connected in Motion. Based on his book, the presentation engaged approximately 100 attendees in exercises and movement activities and showed them how to adapt…

Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "A Policy-Based Intervention for Physical Activity and Screen Time in Childcare Outside School Hours: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial" in the journal JAMA Network Open.

Ric Rosenkranz (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published Improving the implementation of an adolescent obesity prevention intervention in under-resourced schools in the journal BMC Public Health.

Faculty and students from the Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences department recently published results of a study. Faculty (James Navalta, Dustin Davis, and Michael Wong) and students (Olivia Perez, Carolina Silva, and Matahn Blank) published "A Gender-agnostic Inclusive Estimation for Resting Metabolic Rate" in the International Journal of…

Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Rochelle Hines (Psychology), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a $2,189,956 National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant, the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (GRISE), for 2026-31. The…

Esther Adaji (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) presented findings from a collaborative research study titled “Barriers and Facilitators to Healthy Eating Among U.S. School-Aged Children: A Qualitative Systematic Review” at the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The study examined factors…

Faculty from the kinesiology and nutrition sciences department (James Navalta, Dustin Davis) and the Center for Health Disparities Research, department of social and behavioral health (Jason Flatt) along with collaborators (Joshua D. Wooldridge - Moravian University, Juliet Moore - University of Delaware, Jafra Thomas - …

Arpita Basu and Brian Schilling (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) together with Gabriela Buccini (Public Health), Anne Linsday (UNR Extension) and Ph.D. candidate Macy Helm (Integrated Health Sciences) published a comprehensive systematic review on the role of dietary polyphenols as bioactive compounds in the glycemic control of…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published an original research article with Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) and colleagues on the role of healthy dietary patterns in inflammatory biomarkers that predict cardiovascular disease in adults with and without type 1 diabetes using data from the NIH funded Coronary Artery…

Bryson Carrier (graduate of the PhD in Interdisciplinary Health Science) and James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published an article titled, "Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Fitbit Ownership in the NIH All of Us Cohort." The article was published in International Journal of Environmental Research…

Neda Akhavan (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues, recently published "Prune Consumption and Bone Health in Older Men: A One-Year Randomized Controlled Trial" in the journal Nutrients. 

Congratulations to UNLV graduate student Katsiaryna (Kate) Afanasyeva (Kinesiology, Sports Science) on the publication of her master's thesis research, "Brief Report of Core Temperature Patterns in Triathletes While Swimming in Warm Open Water With and Without a Wetsuit," in the International Journal of Exercise Science. The study was co-authored…