Faculty: Pedagogy
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- William E. Buckley
- Professor of Exercise and Sport Science and Health Education; Program Director, Graduate Program
- Research Interests: Health aspects of sport and athletic training with a focus in sport injury risk assessment and epidemiology; development of sport injury risk assessment models to apply to various subset athletic populations (women, disabled, senior participants); drug use in athletics; quality assessment for athletic training; and curriculum design.
- Danielle Symons Downs
- Associate Professor of Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Psychosocial determinants of exercise (age, gender, race), application of theoretical models to exercise (theory of planned behavior, transtheoretical model), exercise dependence, body image.
- George M. Graham
- Professor of Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Physical education pedagogy.
- R. Scott Kretchmar
- Professor of Exercise & Sport Science
- Research Interests: Philosophy of sport, with emphases on the ethics of fair play, the mind-body problem, and the nature of play. Both empirical and nonempirical methodologies are utilized and past research activities have ranged from basic to applied. He is the 1994 author of Practical Philosophy of Sport. Dr. Kretchmar is a fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education and was named the 1997 Alliance Scholar.
- Karl M. Newell
- Professor of Kinesiology and Biobehavioral Health; Marie Underhill Noll Chair and Head of Department
- Research Interests: Coordination, control and skill of normal and abnormal human movement across the life-span; development of coordination, acquisition of skill, information and movement dynamics, mental retardation and motor skills, drug exercise influences on movement control.