Graduate Student Directory

Mounica Ayyalasomayajula’s research focuses on energy, metabolism, and performance in athletes and active people to enhance health and performance.

Zachary Bigalke’s research focuses on the intersection of sport and identity formation, with a focus on the use of international tournaments to integrate immigrant athletes into national communities and the use of sport to reinforce local and regional identities.

Aaron’s research focuses on the language, reporting, and discussion associated with sport, with an emphasis on political and media institutions and how these structures discuss, argue, and connect with politics, national identity, and other issues through sport.

Roberto's research focuses on the effects of inactivity and load on musculoskeletal architecture. 

Ana’ s research interests are physiological and psychological effects of exercise in women, with a focus on energy availability, reproductive function, and disordered eating in gymnasts and female athletes in general. 

Virginia G Content’s research focuses on women's cardiovascular health and utilizes the human cutaneous circulation to understand cardiovascular and autonomic adjustments to exercise in racial populations.

Sayan’s research focuses on applying the physical laws of nature to decipher the complex control of human movement.

Logan Faux-Dugan’s research investigates the relationships between achilles tendon moment arms and triceps surae muscle architecture parameters and implications for locomotion in human populations.

Owen Griffith’s research interests include management of sports concussion and mild traumatic brain injury in student-athlete populations.

Physiological aspects: Protein synthesis and muscle growth, Muscle dysfunction along with muscle atrophy

Functional aspects:  Performance enhancement with multiple perspectives,  Disease recovery and Injury rehabilitation through exercise intervention

Emily Lundstrom’s research examines energy, metabolism and factors related to performance in athletes as it pertains to health and performance optimization

Candice Maenza’s research involves using kinematics, clinical functional performance testing, structural MRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging to answer questions regarding ipsilesional upper-extremity impairment in chronic stroke survivors.

Samuel's research utilizes dynamometry and ultrasound imaging to analyze how variation in the  gastrocnemius muscle fiber length to Achilles tendon length ratio effects how muscles function on the force-length curve.

Taliah’s research focus is on play, games and the good life.

Riley Taylor’s research examines the psychological implications of injury in student athletes with a focus on the development of disordered eating behaviors.

Ms. Williams' research is on women's cardiovascular health, specifically focusing on the mechanisms of vascular dysfunction seen in endometriosis. 

Jisung’s research utilizes motion analysis and neuromodulation to investigate hemispheric lateralization and inter-hemispheric transfer of motor learning.