BSc Biology ‘90
Professor, University of North Carolina
Greensboro, NC
Laurie Wideman, Ph.D., is the Safrit-Ennis Distinguished Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at UNC Greensboro. She is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and was inducted as a fellow into the prestigious National Academy of Kinesiology in 2023 (Fellow #642). Dr. Wideman is heavily involved in interdisciplinary research focused on cardiometabolic risk development across the lifespan, with particular focus on longitudinal cohort studies investigating individual and familial factors influencing weight gain and obesity from childhood into early adulthood. She also studies exercise-induced changes in hormones of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis as indicators of health and wellness. Her collaborative work in these areas has produced over 120 published manuscripts and has been consistently funded by multiple divisions of the National Institute of Health (NIH) for almost twenty years.
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