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Session: Using Physical Activity as an Approach to Healthy and Successful Aging

  Join Dr. Jennifer Jakobi, Professor at the University British Columbia Okanagan in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences, to explore approaches to successful aging and how physical activity can be used as a tool for aging well. Dr. Jakobi looks forward to sharing research and strategies on: • what successful aging (might) mean […]

Graduate Student Opportunities

Graduate Student Opportunities

The lab welcomes applications from enthusiastic trainees. Whether you are an undergraduate or a prospective graduate student, we want to hear from you. Carey Simpson is an alumna of HEAL. She currently teaches in the Human Kinetics Department at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia. While her teaching centres around Nutrition, Motor Development and Physiology, […]

Congratulations to Olga Theou!

Congratulations to Olga Theou!

We want to congratulate Olga Theou, a HEAL lab alumni, as the Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity, Mobility and Healthy Aging at Dalhousie University. The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program supports research and research training excellence in engineering and natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences fields. The goals of Dr. Theou’s CRC […]

STEM Outreach

STEM Outreach

The Neuromuscular – Healthy Exercise and Aging Lab is committed to active community engagement programs to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) advances for underrepresented persons.