Congratulations to PACE Lab doctoral student Marilyn Wolff for earning a Paper of the Year Award from the American Journal of Health Promotion! Her work, “Does Organizational and Coworker Support Moderate Diabetes Risk and Job Stress Among Employees?” describes the role of workplace supports on employee health outcomes. Award criteria includes studies that address a topic of timely importance to health promotion and the findings offer a unique contribution to the literature. Terrific work Marilyn!

Dr. Jennifer Gay and PACE Lab member Anita Reina have had abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in Washington, DC. Anita will present on Body Image and Weight Management among Mexican American Adolescents: Differences by Sport Type. Dr. Gay will present work from her AHA-funded study, Physical Activity from Work and Waist Circumference: A Cross-Sectional Modern Replication of the Morris London Busmen Study. We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to PACE Lab team member, Chantal Laflamme, for being awarded a CURO Research Assistantship! The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities offers competitive assistantships each semester. The assistantship provides a stipend of $1,000 to support student participation on research projects. Chantal works with the PACE Lab on the PAL Program, and she is a co-author on a manuscript in preparation reviewing the health benefits of stair climbing. More information on CURO assistantships and the research symposium can be found at https://curo.uga.edu/.

Dr. Jennifer Gay has been named as one of three Public Service and Outreach Faculty Fellows for 2018-2019. She will be partnering with UGA Marine Extension & Georgia Sea Grant in Brunswick to examine how much physical activity people get when volunteering for marine debris and litter cleanup, and to learn more about how to motivate runners, walkers, and those participating in other recreational activities along the coast to engage in marine debris and litter cleanup when they are in those spaces. More information can be found at the UGA Public Service and Outreach website. Congrats Dr. Gay!

Congratulations to Rhiannon Euhus, a recent PACE Lab graduate, for accepting a position with the Laura and John Arnold Foundation in Washington, DC as a Health Care Analyst starting in August. She will be reviewing policy grant applications and initiatives, and determining whether those proposals advance the organization’s health policy agenda. Congrats Rhiannon!

Dr. Jennifer Gay recently published results from a laboratory-based stair climbing study with adults at risk for pre-diabetes. A main finding is that short episodes of stair climbing (around 2-4 minutes) can lower blood sugar after eating for at least 30 minutes. Read more here.

Former PACE Lab member, Dr. Lindsay Prizer, has published work from her dissertation,  A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding the Palliative Needs of Parkinson’s Patients. Congrats Dr. Prizer!