Two graduate students from the college's Department of Kinesiology have received awards from national professional associations.

David Marchetti, a student in Temple’s Doctor of Athletic Training program, has been named the recipient of the 2017 National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Young Professionals Committee National Distinction Award. As the winner, Marchetti will deliver the keynote address at the NATA Foundation Pinky Newell Scholarship and Leadership Breakfast, taking place in June at the NATA Clinical Symposia and AT Expo in Houston. The National Distinction Award is the committee’s highest honor, recognizing a young professional athletic trainer who has made an immediate and definitive impact on the athletic training profession at the national, district, or state level.

Eric Muñoz, an M.S. student in Kinesiology's Integrative Exercise Physiology program, has received the Steven M. Horvath Travel Award from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The award funds travel expenses for underrepresented minority graduate students traveling to the ACSM Annual Meeting to present their scholarly work. Eric will attend the 2017 meeting in Denver May 30 through June 3 to present his paper, "Myokine/Cardiokine Follistatin-like Protein 1 Promotes Oxidative MyHC Expression and Mitochondrial Function in Myogenic Cells."