Catherine G.R. Jackson, Ph.D.

Exercise Mythbusters

Dr. Catherine Jackson, professor of kinesiology at California State University joins the show to share the truth through science behind some of the common exercise myths.

Catherine G.R. Jackson, Ph.D., FACSM, is a professor and former chair of kinesiology at California State University, Fresno. She received her B.A. degree in chemistry and physics and her M.A. in chemistry from Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Her Ph.D. in exercise physiology was from the University of Colorado, Boulder. As part of her Ph.D. training she attended the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver. Dr. Jackson has served in research and teaching positions in higher education for the last 18 years. She has also conducted basic research into long-term spaceflight by means of faculty fellowships at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, through the NASA/ASEE program at Stanford University, and she was a NASA/JOVE fellow.

Dr. Jackson is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), twice a former President of the Rocky Mountain Regional Chapter of ACSM, and has served the College on national committees. Other avocations have included the presidency of the Western States Association of Faculty Governance and 19 years as a competitor in the sport of fencing. She was twice the State of Colorado Women’s Champion. She was also trained in management at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Jackson is a frequent contributor to the CRC Series on Nutrition in Exercise and Sport. Her first book, published by the CRC Press, was Nutrition for the Recreational Athlete. Her second book was Nutrition and the Strength Athlete.

Melanie Cole, M.S.

9 / 27 / 2011