Program Updates

TRP Year-End Party is TOMORROW!
 

Spring/Summer 2017 Modules

Help us with Recruitment please :)

1. Moni will shortly be sending out a promotional email that we would appreciate if you could forward to your former university department, your department at work, your lab mates, your friends and any other networks.
2. Attend an information session and give potential students your perspective of the program, all the dates are listed on the TRP website here

InVision Software - Free Educational Edition for TRP students

Update from Dean Young on the MSB

1. Professor Scott Mabury, Vice President, University Operations, sent a message summarizing the facts associated with the three localized instances of asbestos in research labs and explaining the steps being taken to guard against reoccurrences.
2. Professor Mabury and I sent a message through MedEmail that speaks more broadly about how the University and Faculty have responded to these incidents.
3. The FAQ posted on the EHS website has been updated to provide additional information about air testing procedures and requirements. 
4. The organization of test results on Portal has been improved to make it more user-friendly. For more information on how to access these results, please visit our online MSB information hub: uoft.me/msb.

Events and Opportunities

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Dear fellow grads,

We would like invite to our upcoming conference, Bodies of Knowledge: From Research to Practice. It is being held on May 11 & 12, 2017 at your very own Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE) here at the University of Toronto. 

Presentations can be data-driven, review papers, published papers, thesis proposals, dissertations, or works in progress. We would like to highlight that this conference hosts a very social and receptive atmosphere, as it is a conference run by graduate students, for graduate students, covering a broad spectrum of inter- and multi-disciplinary issues in health, sport, and physical activity. It is typically attended by grad students from various disciplines across Ontario and from other Canadian and international universities. We encourage graduate students doing research in biomechanics, cultural studies, education and curriculum studies, exercise physiology, history, kinesiology, medicine/nursing, motor control, nutrition, physiology, public health, sexual diversity studies, sociology, somatic studies and women's and gender studies, as well as many others, to submit abstracts for conference presentations.  

This year, we are very fortunate to have Dr. Virginia Wright as our keynote speaker. She is a distinguished clinical researcher at Bloorview Research Institute whose research areas include the development and validation of outcome measures and the effectiveness of interventions in children's rehabilitation. We will also be hosting a panel discussion with a focus on returning to work and activities of daily living following concussion. This narrative medicine panel will feature leading researchers and student perspectives. Additionally, KPE's own Master of Professional Kinesiology students will provide a session with a focus on the diverse practice of professional kinesiologists and their current experiences in the field. Finally, all students are invited to a Toronto Blue Jay’s baseball game on Thursday May 11^th, against the Seattle Mariners as well as our conference social at U of T’s historic Hart House on Friday May 12^th.

This is a great opportunity for graduate students to get together, share thoughts, and network, so please come and join us! Stay tuned for information on how to register.

The abstract deadline is April 21^st, and registration deadline is April 28^th.

To submit and abstract, please fill out the attached form and return to BOKUofT@gmail.com but Friday, April 21^st.

For additional information, please follow our page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BodiesOfKnowledgeUofT/

 - The Bodies of Knowledge Organizing Committee