Gaines earns AP Achievement Award
The AP Achievement Award and six other awards were presented at the annual luncheon.
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Alex Peskin, a 2020 graduate and member of the track and field team, studied the impact of warm-ups before athletic competition; his research was published in the American Journal of Undergraduate Research.
A Grand Valley graduate’s senior research project for the Frederik Meijer Honors College was published in the September issue of the American Journal of Undergraduate Research.
Alex Peskin, who graduated in April 2020 with a dual major in biomedical sciences and behavioral neuroscience, was a four-year member of the Laker men's track and field team.
Peskin applied his penchant for pole vaulting to his research, examining if and how an athlete’s warm-up routine affected their performance in competition.
“After analyzing the data, there are clear trends in the people who took more warm-up vaults coinciding with the meets they performed their best in,” said Peskin.
Peskin said not only was there an improvement in physical performance, but mental performance, too.
Psychology professor Robert Deaner served as his mentor and said Peskin handled every aspect of the research.
“Alex told me that all I had to do was guide him, and he would do all of the heavy lifting, which he did,” said Deaner. “His initiative and follow-through were consistently outstanding. I have no doubt he’s going to be a huge success in medicine or anything else that he pursues.”
This article was last edited on October 12, 2021 at 1:25 p.m.
The AP Achievement Award and six other awards were presented at the annual luncheon.
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April 23, 2024 (Volume 47, Number 17)
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