March 24-25, 2017

Dr. Alex Benson, Jordan Sutcliffe and Lauren Taylor presented their research at the 21st annual Eastern Canada Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium (ECSEPS) held at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario on March 24-25.

January 2017

Dr. Mark Bruner was a visiting scholar at the Early Start Research Institute at the University of Wollongong, Australia.  

December 2016

Dr. Mark Bruner and Dr. Brenda Bruner presented their research Understanding Aboriginal youth development through sport and physical activity: their voices, their stories, and their experiences at the International Congress on Behavioural Medicine (ICBM) in Melbourne, Australia.

October 2016

Dr. Alex Benson was awarded the Franklin Henry Young Scientist Award in recognition of the scholarly research of a trainee member of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS) at the annual 2016 conference in Waterloo, Ontario.

June 15-18, 2016

Lab members Matthew Vierimaa and Devyn Richards presented their research at the annual North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Conference (NASPSA) held at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montréal, Québec.

March 11-12, 2016

Honor thesis student Terry Cowan presented his research at the 20th Annual Eastern Canada Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium (ECSEPS) held at McMaster University on March 11-12, 2016.

January 27, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Bruner for being recognized for his ground breaking research here at Nipissing University. Watch the interview below:

June, 2015

The Youth and Development through Sport and Physical Activity lab would like to congratulated honors thesis student Brogan Bailey on being accepted to the Master of Kinesiology at Dalhousie University graduate program. Congratulations!  

March 27-28, 2015

Honors thesis students Zach Root, Brogan Bailey and Devyn Richards presented their research at the 19th Annual Eastern Canada Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium (ECSEPS) held at the University of Ottawa on March 27-28, 2015.

April, 2014 

The Youth and Development through Sport and Physical Activity lab congratulates  two lab members on being accepted to graduate studies. Honors thesis student Matt McGuckin will be attending Queens University in the MSc in Kinesiology program, and Lab Coordinator Chris Forrest will be attending University of Waterloo in the Masters of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program. Congratulations!