“UMass-based NEA Research Lab is first in the nation to focus on health benefits of dance in adults”
The National Endowment for the Arts recently selected Laboratory for the Scientific Study of Dance (LAB:SYNC) based at the University of Massachusetts as a recipient of a Research Lab Award.
Aston K. McCullough, Assistant Professor of Dance Science at UMass Amherst, directs LAB:SYNC. To form this new NEA Research Lab, McCullough is joined by a transdisciplinary cadre of researchers from UMass and the Five Colleges, Inc. Those based at UMass Amherst include doctoral student of Kinesiology Natalie Cabiles, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology Bruna Martins-Klein, Genomics Research Laboratory Director Ravi Ranjan, Director of Athletic Medicine Pierre Rouzier, and Professor of Kinesiology Richard Van Emmerik. They are joined by Five Colleges researchers Chris Aiken (Associate Professor of Dance, Smith College), Barbie Diewald (Assistant Professor of Dance, Mount Holyoke College), Jenna M. Riegel (Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance, Amherst College), and Alexandra Ripp (Five College Dance Director, Five Colleges, Inc.).
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