{"id":491,"date":"2013-08-05T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/undergradresearch\/?p=491"},"modified":"2013-08-05T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:01:09","slug":"matthew-garver-kinesiology-and-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/2013\/08\/05\/matthew-garver-kinesiology-and-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Garver &#8211; Kinesiology and Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name<\/strong>: Dr. Matthew Garver<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department:\u00a0<\/strong>Kinesiology and Nutrition<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Aging and functional decline<br \/>\nExercise interventions for older adults<br \/>\nExercise knowledge and beliefs as predictors of physical activity patterns and physical function<br \/>\nSport performance<br \/>\nOsteoarthritis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are you involved in undergraduate research?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate Research is a natural location for the application of knowledge learned in classes.\u00a0When students have the opportunity to see the scientific process from start to finish, the experience becomes a harbinger of critical thinking skills (development of an idea, IRB application, data collection, analysis, dissemination, manuscript development, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>As research in Kinesiology and Nutrition involves human subjects, UR affords our students the chance to take roles of support or leadership in situations where we interact with people of diverse thought and background.<\/p>\n<p>(Bottom line, I have a curios mind and although research is sometimes a little difficult to understand, I love dragging a few students along for the ride).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conferences Attended with Undergraduate Students<\/strong>: Dr. Garver has taken student to present with him at the\u00a0Regional American College of Sports Medicine Meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers<\/strong>: Dr. Garver has published with students in the\u00a0International Journal of Exercise Science and the Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise\u00a0journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Dr. Matthew Garver Department:\u00a0Kinesiology and Nutrition Research Interests: Aging and functional decline Exercise interventions for older adults Exercise knowledge and beliefs as predictors of physical activity patterns and physical function Sport performance Osteoarthritis Why are you involved in undergraduate research? Undergraduate Research is a natural location for the application of knowledge learned in classes.\u00a0When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73647],"tags":[73647,76754,76743],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-mentor","tag-faculty-mentor","tag-kinesiology-and-nutrition","tag-uurc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}