Ryan was selected for the American College of Sports Medicine Tipton Student Research Award which is given annually to the “student with the most outstanding research project of the year”. Congratulations on your success!
EXERT Completes Recruitment
Congratulations to everyone involved in this study! We have met our recruitment goal of 45 participants. Great work everyone!
Kristen Accepted to Medical School
Kristen has been accepted to the Medical School at the Indiana University-School of Medicine. Congratulations Kristen, we are all very excited for your future! Update: Kristen has also been accepted to Northwestern University (Feinberg School …
Ozioma Okonkwo Founds the Dementia Special Interest Group
Ozioma Okonkwo founded the Dementia Special Interest Group (SIG) within the International Neuropsychological Society. He will also serve as the inaugural chair of the SIG, which promotes scholarly conversations around research, practice, and education as …
Max Gaitán Publishes
Max Gaitan published a paper in a special issue of Brain Plasticity devoted to Exercise and Cognition. There was also a press release about his paper. “Brain Glucose Metabolism, Cognition, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Following Exercise …
Clayton Presented at INS 2020 Conference
Clayton Vesperman gave an oral presentation on February 8th for his abstract titled “Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Age-Related Cognitive Decline in a Cohort Enriched with Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease” at the INS 2020 Annual Meeting in Denver, …
Ryan Dougherty Accepted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Ryan Dougherty has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the John Hopkins University on the T23 training grant titled “Age-Related Cognitive Disorders”. He starts there Fall 2020 and will be working with Drs Jennifer Schrack and …
Ozioma Okonkwo at INS Conference 2020
Ozioma Okonkwo was presented a plaque in Recognition of Outstanding Leadership for his role as Program Chair of the INS 2020 Conference.
Welcome Dr. Driscoll
Dr. Driscoll is an Associate Professor of Psychology at UW Milwaukee. She is on a sabbatical and will be spending it in the Okonkwo Lab, where she will be working with Dr. Okonkwo on manuscripts …
Clayton V. Accepted Paper Presentation at INS 2020
Congratulations Clayton! Clayton Vesperman has been accepted to do a paper presentation at INS 2020 Annual Meeting in Denver on February 5th-8th. It is titled “Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Age-Related Cognitive Decline in a Cohort Enriched …