Celebrating Noll Laboratory’s 50th anniversary

Commemoration events celebrating 50 years of Noll Laboratory will be held on Nov. 20 to honor the lab’s legacy of innovation and research

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Dedicated in 1973, Noll Laboratory was the nation’s first free-standing, independent research facility devoted to the multidisciplinary study of the interaction between physical activity and the environment.

On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the Penn State Department of Kinesiology will host three events celebrating the lab’s research and commitment to the field of human performance over the last 50 years.

Historical marker unveiling ceremony

A new historical marker will be unveiled just outside the entrance to Noll Laboratory, part of an event sharing the lab’s history and impact and including speeches from keynote speakers and lab affiliates.

Speakers will include Lacy Alexander, professor of kinesiology; Craig Newschaffer, Raymond E. and Erin Stuart Schultz Dean of the Penn State College of Health and Human Development and professor of biobehavioral health; John Bartholomew , head and professor of kinesiology; Jerry Dempsey, professor emeritus of population health sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, American Physiological Society representative; W. Larry Kenny professor of physiology and kinesiology and Marie Underhill Noll Chair in Human Performance; and others.

The unveiling ceremony is free and open for all to attend.

Historical lecture

Following the historical marker unveiling ceremony, Jim Pawelczyk, associate professor of physiology and kinesiology, will deliver a historical lecture in 117 Freeman Auditorium in the HUB-Robeson Center.

The lecture will feature the innovative physiology and kinesiology research conducted in Noll Laboratory that has taken place during the lab’s five-decade history.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Learn more about the festivities at 美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学 News: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/celebrating-noll-laboratorys-50th-anniversary

Visit the Penn State College of Health and Human Development to get to know more the Noll Laboratory and how you can support students by giving to the Mrs. A. Robert Noll Graduate Fellowship in Applied Physiology in the College of Health and Human Development fund. https://hhd.psu.edu/kines/50-years-of-Noll-Laboratory