Health, Exercise & Sports Sciences

The holidays are robust with huge dinners, parties and festivities that make it easy to overindulge without realizing it. But there are several ways to strike a balance between maintaining holiday merriment and weight management. What’s important, according to Len Kravitz, associate professor of Exercise Science at the University of New Mexico, is to stick with an exercise program, if you’re on one, or to move more when you eat more.

Tis the season to attend food-filled festivities that generally tax the old waistline. If you’re tired of stressing over calories and weight gain, here’s a bit of advice from Peter Pribis, assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics in the University of New Mexico College of Education, Department of Individual, Family and Community Education.

For 40 minutes, the eight- and nine-year-old boys are coached through a series of basketball drills. They learn to dribble, pivot, shoot and hold a defensive pose. Some have never played basketball before, but are excited to learn. In a classroom, ...

Comadre a Comadre invites the campus community at its new UNM offices on Friday, Oct. 18. Refreshments, including appetizers and desserts, will be served. Additionally, register for door prizes. Stop by and visit anytime between 3 and 7 p.m. Located ...

A memorial servivce for Robert Hohnke will be held Sunday, Dec. 11 at 11 a.m. in Johnson Center's main gym. Hohnke was a physical education teaching assistant and doctoral student in the College of Education's Health, Exercise & Sports Sciences ...

The Science & Society Distinguished Public Talks Series presents, "The Challenges of Public Health," a talk by Jessica Núñez de Ybarra on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 5 p.m. A meet and greet will also be held beginning at 4:30 p.m. The lecture, which is free and ...

Lorenda Belone, the first graduate of the University of New Mexico's Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center Doctoral Fellowship program, has accepted a tenure-track position in the UNM College of Education's Health Education Program. She assumes the ...