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Join the KIN Department to Celebrate 51st Annual Honors Convocation

On behalf of the Department of Kinesiology, we invite you to joins us to celebrate the accomplishments of the student honorees from the Kinesiology Department at the upcoming 51st Annual Honors Convocation.  The event will be held at the SJSU Event Center on Friday, April 26, 2013 at 6:00pm.  A list of the CASA student award winners can be found below.

In particular, you can read about KIN student Erin Enguero, who is featured on the Honors Convocation website.

To learn more about these amazing dedicated students, please go to the Honors Convocation website.  Thank you to the many KIN faculty members who nominated these students and helped them develop as young professionals in their disciplines. Their diverse stories of triumph, hard work, and tenacity represent the best of KIN. KIN is proud of its distinguished students and the Honors Convocation is a recognition of their outstanding achievements.

President’s Scholars

Undergraduate students who have earned a 4.0 grade point average at San José State University in at least two contiguous semesters of the three semesters prior to the Honors Convocation.

Dean’s Scholars

Undergraduate students who have earned a 3.65 or higher grade point average at San José State University in at least two contiguous semesters of the three semesters prior to the Honors Convocation.
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Silicon Valley Healthy Aging Partnership (SVHAP) Receives Health Trust Grant

The Silicon Valley Healthy Aging Partnership (SVHAP), directed by Tamar Z. Semerjian, Ph.D. and Jennifer Schachner, M.S. has had a busy start to the year. SVHAP is pleased to announce that we have received $90,000 from The Health Trust to continue our work for another 18 months. The Health Trust has also included SVHAP in a grant for $25,000 from the Council on Aging to fund translation of the Matter of Balance program into Vietnamese and to update and increase the functionality of our website (www.svhap.org). SVHAP was also awarded a grant from El Camino Hospitals for $70,000 to fund work for a Falls Prevention Task Force.

This will primarily involve workshops and outreach to senior serving organizations, their clients, and emergency medical service providers on how to prevent falls in the community. Dr. Semerjian and Ms. Schachner presented the work they have done over the past two years for SVHAP at the Center for Healthy Aging in Multicultural Populations (CHAMP) conference on April 5th. The Third Annual SVHAP meeting will be at the Sunnyvale Senior Center from 9 am-12 pm on April 19th, 2013. The meeting will include the announcement of the launch of new SVHAP supported programs, Tai Chi: Moving for Better Balance and the Arthritis Foundations’ Walk with Ease. Programs already supported by SHVAP are: Enhance Fitness, Matter of Balance, and Better Choices Better Health. SVHAP looks forward to another productive year of making evidence-based health promotion programs widely available to all older adults in Santa Clara County.