Faculty advisor: Dr. Riana Pryor

Students will learn in the Hydration, Exercise, and Thermoregulation (HEAT) Laboratory while assisting with hands-on applied human subjects research. Students have the opportunity to create and pilot test a protocol for a new task in the lab that quantifies quadriceps neuromuscular fatigue due to an exercise heat stress intervention mimicking military work. The goal is to create, refine, and standardize an isometric mid-thigh pull task to reduce measurement error and improve repeatability when performing the task, with an overall goal of accurately and precisely measuring strength to determine changes in neuromuscular fatigue.

Join the team and learn alongside Exercise Science and Clinical Nutrition graduate students to implement this new task in studies involving active human subjects data collection. Dedicated students will have the opportunity to run their own data collection and take ownership over a research question in one of our ongoing studies.

Time commitment: ≥3 credits