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Tag: TPSR

Project FLEX 3.0 begins, ready to grow

October 27, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

COVID-19 has proven no match for Project FLEX. It’s true that when the pandemic arrived in the spring, the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KNPE) did suspend its initiative that provide in-person, structured physical activity to young men incarcerated at the

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Paul Wright conceives, co-edits tribute to career mentor, friend Don Hellison

October 6, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

One phone call changed Paul Wright’s life. Wright had completed a bachelor’s degree in biology and had spent two years working in a biochemistry lab when he determined that he wanted, or maybe needed, something else. “I thought of everything from going

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UNESCO taps Paul Wright to lead forum prior to anti-doping convention in Paris

October 23, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

Sometimes, preventative medicine is the best medicine. Case in point: One day before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization opens its seventh international convention against doping in sport, UNESCO will host a pre-conference forum on values-based education. Both events, which

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KNPE professors, grad student launch Project FLEX inside Illinois Youth Center

October 2, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Opened in December 1904, the 120-acre Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles can hold 348 juvenile males in its Level 2 medium-security facility. The average daily population of 138 represents about 40 percent of that capacity. The average age is 17. Those

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