Graduate student competes for new national award
A University of Georgia kinesiology student is in the running for a new national research award from the American College of Sports Medicine.
Melissa Erickson, a doctoral student studying exercise physiology in the College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, is one of a handful of students from across the country named as finalists for the first-ever Presidential Cup, a new national award for the top graduate student research poster. The award, which will be named in late May during ACSM’s annual conference, follows her recognition by the organization’s Southeast region, where she placed first following hundreds of submissions, a review of her abstract, and an in-person presentation of her work.