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NEWS12 New Jersey featured our Global Sports Business MS Program in a piece on women breaking ground in the business of pro sports, by working toward and earning non-traditional, high-level roles in the front office and on the field. NEWS12 spoke with Myron Finkelstein, Executive Director of the Global Sports Business Graduate Program in the Department of Kinesiology and Health. The news clip focused on Katie Sowers, San Francisco 49ers Offensive Assistant Coach in Super Bowl LIV.

Study may help lead to drugs aimed at diabetes and obesity

 Dr. Sidossis along with other scientists have discovered how brown fat, also known as brown adipose tissue, may help protect against obesity and diabetes.    Read More

Dr. Sidossis recently organized and hosted the Big Ten Academic Alliance Kinesiology chairs meeting in Chicago.  The Big Ten Academic Alliance is an academic consortium of the 14 institutions that are members of the Big Ten Conference.

Current members:

• Indiana University
• Michigan State University
• Northwestern University
• Ohio State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Purdue University
• Rutgers University
• University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• University of Iowa
• University of Maryland
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• University of Nebraska–Lincoln
• University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dr. Kokkinos presented at the Annual American Heart Association Meeting which was held November 15-18, 2019 on the mortality risk according to CRF and RAAS-I Interaction.  Click for Details

A new plant-based ingredient developed by researchers at Rutgers shows promise for improved exercise performance and reduced recovery time.

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Jason Henderson, who has helped NJIT to multiple MACFA Conference individual and team titles during his time with the Highlander fencing programs, has been elevated to head coach Assistant Vice President/Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan announced.  Read More

When a 10-year-old girl in San Diego started a campaign to support addiction research, she had no idea the path would lead her to a lab a continent away in New Jersey in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. In July, Anika Gamburg visited the the Cardiac Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Kinesiology and Health to learn about their addiction prevention research first hand. Read about this amazing work and the inspiring story of Anika, who suffered a devastating loss but went on to work for the greater good.   Read More

 Co-author Labros S. Sidossis, professor in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, commented in a statement: "Our study explains the paradox that BCAA supplements can potentially benefit those with active brown fat, such as healthy people, but can be detrimental to others, including the elderly, obese and people with diabetes."  Click Here for Newsweek article 

Dr. Sidossis was the keynote speaker and received an honorary distinction for his contribution to the Exercise Science field during the 2019 International Conference on Physical Activity and Sports in Thessaloniki, Greece