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New Research From Falk College Quantifies Europe’s Advantage Over USA in Ryder Cup
Using a new metric called “world golf ability,” a David B. Falk College of Sport research team has determined that Team Europe’s methods of selecting and preparing its Ryder Cup team gives it a significant advantage over Team USA. Played…
Falk College Research Team Wins Prestigious Sports Analytics Research Paper Competition
A research team from the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics won the 19th Annual MIT Sloan Research Paper Competition. Department of Sport Management student and lead author Alivia Uribe ’25, Sport Analytics Professor Shane Sanders and Sport Analytics Associate…
Falk’s Miriam Mutambudzi Furthers Research on Health Disparities Among Older, Vulnerable Populations
From late 2007 until mid-2009, economies around the world plunged into a market decline known as the Great Recession–the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s. In the United States, unemployment rates skyrocketed, housing prices and…
Exercise Science Professor Kylie Harmon Investigates Ability to Preserve Muscle Mass and Strength During Immobilization
Mind over matter. Kylie Harmon, an assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, has always been fascinated by this deep-rooted idea that a person could control a physical condition with…
New Research on the Evolution of Sexual Selection in Fruit Flies
New Research Published in Nature, “Genomics of a sexually selected sperm ornament and female preference in Drosophila,” Offer New Clues to the Evolution of Sperm 鶹ƵUniversity researchers from the Center of Reproductive Evolution published a paper that offers insight…