Graduate Faculty

Graduate Faculty

The Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology has a faculty devoted to excellence.  Faculty members have distinguished themselves both nationally and internationally as outstanding educators and scholars, recognized for their skills in teaching, research, and leadership in professional organizations.

Equally important, the faculty is committed to educating students in a manner which stresses a creative and analytical orientation to decision-making.  Individual faculty members work closely with the students in academic planning and career counseling.  This close student-faculty interaction and commitment shapes and directs all Applied Physiology and Kinesiology programs. 

Graduate faculty include:

Christopher Janelle (Ph.D.) Graduate Coordinator, Associate Professor - Motor Learning / Sport / Exercise Psychology
(1) Emotion and movement
(2) Anxiety, arousal, and motor performance
(3) Attention, attentional bias, self-regulation

Randy Braith (Ph.D.) Professor - Exercise Physiology
(1) Homeostatic mechanisms in heart/lung transplant recipients
(2) Endocrine regulation of circulation in heart failure

Paul Borsa (Ph.D.) Associate Professor - Sports Medicine
(1) Effects of overuse impairment, injury and rehabilitation on shoulder function
(2) Static and dynamic joint stability mechanisms
(3) Pulsed magnetic field therapy for musculoskeletal injuries

Steve Borst (Ph.D.) Associate Professor, Center for Exercise Science/VA Medical Center
(1) Frailty associated with aging
(2) Loss of muscle and bone mass
(3) Anabolic agents

James Cauraugh (Ph.D.) Professor - Motor Behavior
 (1) Stroke motor recovery and bilateral coordination

Thomas L. Clanton (Ph.D.) Professor - Skeletal Muscle/Cardiovascular/Respiratory Physiology
(1) Free radical biology, redox sensing and oxygen sensing in muscle
(2) Imaging and spectroscopy in skeletal and cardiac muscle
(3) Heat stroke and adaptations to hyperthermia

David Criswell (Ph.D.) Assistant Professor – Exercise Physiology
(1) Molecular mechanisms underlying mechanical signal transduction in striated muscle.
(2) The immuno-cytokine response to exercise.
(3) Myocardial apoptosis and exercise.

Michael Delp (Ph.D.) Chair, Professor – Exercise Physiology
(1) Aging, training and skeletal muscle blood flow
(2) Skeletal circulation and the coupling to bone remodeling
(3) Microgravity and the cardiovascular system

Stephen Dodd (Ph.D.) Professor - Exercise Physiology
(1) Muscle atrophy in disuse and disease
(2) The role of heat shock proteins in muscle adaptation to stress
(3) The effects of chemical denervation on muscle function and adaptation
(4) The effects of ischemia on muscle function and adaptation

Peter (Pete) Giacobbi, Jr. (Ph.D.) Assistant Professor - Sport and Exercise Psychology
(1)  Personality predictors of college/elite athlete sport behavior and performance
(2)  Anxiety, stress, and the coping responses of athletes
(3)  Media portrayals of Tiger Woods

Chris J. Hass (Ph.D.) Assistant Professor-Biomechanics
(1) Neuromechanical control of gait and posture
(2) Therapeutics for Movement Disorders
(3) Developmental acquisition of postural control.

Heather Hausenblas (Ph.D.) Associate Professor - Sport and Exercise Psychology
(1)  Eating disorders, body image
(2)  Group dynamics
(3)  Exercise adherence

Scott Powers (Ph.D.) Professor - Exercise Physiology
(1) Respiratory/metabolic adaptations to exercise
(2) Mechanisms responsible for exercise-induced imperfections in pulmonary gas exchange
(3) The adaptive strategies of respiratory muscles exposed to chronic stress (e.g., exercise training, aging, corticosteroids)

Ronald Siders (Ph.D.) Associate Professor - Research Methods
(1) Use of statistics in experimental research
(2) General problems in physical fitness assessment
(3) Biomechanics and physiological factors in motor performance

Mark Tillman (Ph.D.) Assistant Professor - Biomechanics
(1) Gender differences and predisposing factors for ACL injury
(2) Kinematic and kinetic evaluations of running and jumping

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