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Students in Creative Movement for Well-being dancing

Dancing toward well-being: department of dance’s new PE classes get students moving in fresh ways

Creative Movement for Wellbeing is one of the new courses shaking up the usual lineup of physical education options at the University of Georgia. Franklin’s Department of Dance collaborated with the Department of Kinesiology to launch six new Physical Education-Basic (PEDB) courses that invite students into a new space. Instead of treadmills or traditional PE drills, participants explore improvisation and expressive activities designed to…
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‘Play deserts’ common throughout Deep South, Southwest

Physical activity is crucial to children’s healthy physical and mental development. But new research from the University of Georgia shows hundreds of U.S. counties are play deserts. These play deserts are areas where parks and other spots to run around and play are nonexistent, hard to access or in less safe locations that make parents second-guess taking their children to play there. The study found that about 7% of the country…
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Get moving! (Even just a little)

New research from the University of Georgia shows that physical activity could help protect your cognitive abilities as you age. And it doesn’t have to be intense exercise to make an impact. “This finding isn’t saying, ‘If you’re older, you need to go out there and start running marathons,’” said Marissa Gogniat, lead author of the study and a recent doctoral graduate in psychology from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. “This is…
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