Health, Exercise & Sports Sciences

The popular Summer Youth Sports Program (SYSP), housed in the UNM College of Education's Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences, returns this summer. The program, titled "Healthy U at the U," is designed as an activity-based program open to all youngsters...

The University of New Mexico's Physical Education Activity program hosts a dance fitness clinic Tuesday and Wednesday, April 19-20 in the UNM Johnson Center Main Gym featuring special guest Louis Van Amstel from LaBlast Fitness. Van Amstel is a...

With participants coming from Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, the annual Lobo Triathlon, Kids Race and Wellness Fair has become a top-notch regional event. Last year, more than 300 athletes competed in the triathlon. This year's Lobo Triathlon is also...

We’ve all been there – reaching for another heap of potatoes or ambrosia, sampling everything on the dessert tray, maybe one too many eggnogs, and suddenly we’re more stuffed than the rib roast and feeling guilty. Don’t beat yourself up, it happens to...

Students in the Exercise Science program at the University of New Mexico have created a lifestyle program, “Don’t Sit, Get Fit,” that encourages people to stay active in all aspects of their life.

Join the University of New Mexico Cancer Center for the fifth annual Advocacy for Cancer Patients Seminar presents Cancer Patient Navigation Standards & Training Friday, Oct. 9 in the UNM Cancer Center Auditorium.

The popular Summer Youth Sports Program (SYSP), housed in the UNM College of Education's Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences, returns this summer. Titled "Healthy U at the U," is designed as an activity-based program open for all youngsters ages 8 –...

Comadre a Comadre started out 12 years ago as a community-based program co-founded with six Hispanic/Latina breast cancer survivors and their loved ones along with Dr. Elba L. Saavedra. The survivors shared their experiences about both, the lack of culturally sensitive psychological support available to them, and their own lack of knowledge of services once they were diagnosed with breast cancer.

The Health, Exercise and Sports Science Department (HESS), in the UNM College of Education, hosts the Spring Fling Triathlon, Kids Race and Wellness Fair on Sunday, April 12 in celebration of the UNM School of Medicine’s 50th Anniversary.

If you are passionate about fitness and physical activity and want to share that passion with a variety of youth from diehard athletes to couch potatoes, you might want to consider the Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) degree program at the ...