American College of Sports Medicine
Environmental Physiology Interest Group (EPIG)

6th Annual Environmental Physiology Graduate Student Research Award

This year the ACSM Environmental Physiology Interest Group is awarding, thanks to the generous
support of the Foundation for Aging Studies and Exercise Science Research (TFASESR.com),
two (2) Student Research Awards at our annual EPIG meeting: Thursday, June 3rd, 5:45 - 7:15 p.m.
in room 339 of the Baltimore Convention Center. We hope that you can join us! Refreshments
courtesy of HQ, Inc.

We are proud to announce the winners of the EPIG 2010 Graduate Student Research 
Awards:

MSc Award: Geoffrey Hartley, Brock University, Canada: The effect of a secret 
manipulation of ambient temperature on heat storage and voluntary exercise intensity.
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Cheung

PhD Award: Joel Trinity, University of Texas at Austin, USA: Stroke volume response
to low dose beta blockade during exercise under normothermic and hyperthermic
conditions.
Advisor: Dr. Edward F. Coyle

Former winners of this award:

2005 (Nashville, TN)-David W. DeGroot, Penn State University: Impaired Metabolic and Tissue insulation Responses to Cold in Aged Humans.

2006 (Denver, CO)-Glen A. Selkirk, York University CANADA Intracellular HSP72 Expression in Monocyte Subsets Between Trained and Untrained Individuals During Exertional Heat Stress.

2007 (New Orleans, LA)-Heather E. Wright, York University CANADA:  Acute Neuroendocrine Response to Uncompensable Heat Stress in Endurance Trained Versus Untrained Males.

2008 (Indianapolis, IN)-Fabiano T. Amorim, University of New Mexico:  Does Whole Body Heat Acclimation Change Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Thermotolerance?

2009 (Seattle, WA)- James A. Lang, Penn State University: Local Tetrahydrobiopterin Administration Augments Reflex and Tyramine-Induced Cutaneous Vasoconstriction in Aged Human Skin.