Community
Physical Education Summer Institute
Over 100 educators from around the state had a chance in June to learn about the newest trends in Physical Education at the annual summer conference for physical education teachers. National and state teachers of the year lead a range of sessions focused on fitness, academic integration, dance, and developing movement skills.
The benefits of university life should not exist solely in the rarified culture of academia, and the Department of Kinesiology does not limit the work of education and research to the classroom, gymnasium and laboratory.
Working with a Grant
- CSX
The Wynn F. Updyke Center is currently working with CSX Transportation to provide health screenings to CSXT employees located across the United States. The goals of the program are to improve health by reducing health risks, reduce medical care costs, and improve employee health status.
- Pima-Maricopa Physical Education
research
Dr. Donetta Cothran and Alex Garn work with colleagues in Arizona to design more effective school programming and increase physical activity in Native American students. The project includes coordination between classroom and physical education teachers as well as Arizona State University and Indiana University faculty.
Research in the Field
- Underwater Parks
For more than 10 years, Indiana University Bloomington undergraduate and graduate students, archaeologists, geologists and park professionals have sought to resolve through underwater and land-based investigations some of the mysteries surrounding Columbus' arrival in the New World. Dr. Charles Beeker and archaeologists from Indiana University Bloomington are helping the government of the Dominican Republic to open a second underwater museum featuring fragments and other items recovered from early 18th-century shipwrecks.
- Teaching dance in the community
The IU Pre-College Contemporary Dance Program provides professional instruction in various disciplines of dance while creating a positive environment that is conducive to learning and developing. The pre-college program focuses on creating dancers with not only substantial technique but also individual voices that include freedom of expression. The goal is to encourage creativity and an appreciation of dance along with a positive environment that will enhance each student’s life. Under the direction of Jennifer Adam, the program offers classes in an array of contemporary dance forms to children ages 4-18 and adults. Pre-school and early elementary aged children can participate in creative movement and tap classes, while older students study modern dance, ballet from a contemporary perspective, improvisation and composition, jazz/hip-hip, and musical theatre. Classes for adults include dance technique, Pilates matwork, and ballroom dance. A youth company is planned for the spring of 2007. Program faculty are well qualified and experienced (many hold graduate degrees) to work with children, and instill in them a love and appreciation of the art of dance. The pre-college program brings into the community the highest quality of instruction and education in contemporary dance.
