Big Sports Wins
In this Issue:
- Faculty expert: how the World Cup can get children moving
- Summer construction projects map
For many of us who were up late watching hockey, this morning was a little bleary eyed. Our Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup! All props to Vegas – they played an amazing series – but we are very glad to have Lord Stanley’s Cup coming to Raleigh. Go, Canes!
If you are glued to the World Cup as I am, I hope you celebrated the win of the German team yesterday, since they are stationed here in Winston-Salem. Congratulations to the team and let’s keep those wins coming!
Faculty expert: how the World Cup can get children moving
Speaking of the World Cup, one of our faculty experts has a short video out about how the World Cup could help get children moving.
Abbie Wrights, an associate teaching professor, offers a course on the culture of youth sports. In that class, she and her students talk about the influence of role models for young athletes and the wide-ranging benefits of youth sports participation.
Given that so many children seem to want to ‘play’ on phones, iPads, and other screens, Dr. Wrights’ work is especially important. Inspiring physical activity can both increase wellbeing and prevent chronic disease later on. I like how Dr. Wrights talks about “joyful movement.”
It’s a great video. I hope you like it as much as I did.
Summer construction projects map
I was in a meeting this morning and a colleague shared this summer construction projects map. On it, you can see all the projects that are happening around campus.
Some of the projects are very noticeable and big: the road is closed in front of the Wellbeing Center as they repave the road and the parking lot between Wellbeing and Reynolda Hall; there is also a major upheaval around Babcock Hall – right now it looks like a mountain of red clay as they excavate the courtyard, but there is internal work on the building too.
There are other, less externally visible projects, such as classroom refreshes, HVAC and pipe work, etc. But summer is the right time to do this sort of work, since occupancy is a lot lower.
We’ll close today with a couple of cool pics that my talented photographer colleagues took of our Mag Quad (aka Manchester Quad) on the south part of campus (I particularly like the aerial/drone shot).
Wish you could smell those magnolias, y’all 🙂
