The Kin290/Hon 290 gives undergraduate students an opportunity to build research skills and gain experience working in a lab environment. Within the Physical Activity and Health Promotion Lab students typically work on the FLASH (Free Living Activity Study for Health) project, learning the fundamentals of physical activity assessment, interacting with research participants to collect data and contribute to the ongoing FLASH data repository, and working towards answering their own research question.

Download the pdf file for the KIN 290 course here.
Download the pdf file for the HON 290 course here

Students interested in enrolling in these undergraduate research experiences should contact Dr. Greg Welk at gwelk@iastate.edu.

Details on the previous projects are summarized below. While the project provides a specific research experience with monitors, the exposure provides the foundation for other practicum courses and applied research projects  in the PAHP lab

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Spring 2022 Project

At the 2022 ISU Symposium on Undergraduate Research, Megan Neighbor, Luke Ragsdale, and Cassie Rickabaugh present their project on the factors that may influence the accuracy of physical activity recalls. 

Spring 2021 Project

Presented at the 2021 ISU Symposium on Undergraduate Research, Rosenfeld Scholar Robert Gabalski, and Kin 290 Students Katherine Klein, Caden Maher, Stephanie Stenger, and Gabriel Wetter explore the influence of activity monitor wear location on 24-hour step counts.