Summer University Program Provides Valuable Research Education
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LETHBRIDGE – Months of hard work has come to an end for sixteen summer research students at the University of Lethbridge.
It runs on a volunteer basis, and each student is setup with a topic, like how chronic exposure to THC can affect adolescents, from a principle investigator. They then collaborate with one another to get the information they need.
The students wrapped up the program Thursday afternoon during a symposium where each presented their findings to a panel of three judges.
The top award went to Kinesiology student, Elani Bykowski, who studies under Dr. Jon Doan. The title of Elani’s talk was “Grow with the Flow: visual fixation and saccades in dynamic sports environments.”
Dr. Doan has done work looking at using ice skating as a therapy for Parkinson’s disease, and Elani’s project examined the location of eye gaze while subjects watched video or still images depicting dynamic sports such as skating or biking. They were able to show that normal subjects look far ahead in the direction of motion while, in the case of biking, people with Parkinson’s disease tend to spend most of their time looking down at the wheel.
