Position:

Scholarly and Professional Focus:
What it takes to be a peak performer in any walk of life
Exploring how college students can develop into lifelong peak performers
Exploring the inner process of becoming a lifelong exercise maintainer
Exploring connections among the self, health, and performance
Exploring positive psychology approaches as alternatives to prevention and treatment approaches to health promotion
Examining the role of high touch, high tech in facilitating exercise behavior change with the inexperienced population
Helping skills for facilitating exercise behavior change

Creative Accomplishments:
Author of the YPersonal Fitness Program: 12 Weeks to a Better You, an exercise behavior change program for physically inactive individuals
Author of The Intrinsic Exerciser: Discovering the Joy of Exercise (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002)
Writer and Producer for the YPersonal Fitness Program videoPublished articles in Psychology Today and Runner's WorldInvited by the American College of Sports Medicine and Healthy Learning Videos to develop and appear in two educational videos for health and fitness professionals

Courses Taught:
PHS 188 Exercise and Health
PHS 202 Introduction and Integration of Physical Education, Health and Sport Studies
PHS 654 Studies in Exercise Behavior
PHS 450/550 Flow in Sport
PHS 450/550 Optimal Experience

Honors and Awards:
1999 Research Writing Award (with co-author Thelma Horn) for the best article published in the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Research Consortium's Award Committee of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
Among the one hundred and one faculty and staff identified by students as exemplifying the values that form the foundation of Miami's Leadership Commitment, Office of Student Leadership and Service Learning
One of 56 Miami University faculty and staff members nominated by the class of 1997 for the Alumni Association's 2001 Effective Educator Award
One of six professors to receive the 2001 Alumni Enrichment Award

Notable Service Accomplishments:
Creator and host of FitTalk, a talk radio show on exercise and fitness carried on National Public Radio through Miami University's WMUB 88.5 FM.
Member of the YMCA Greater Cincinnati task team for the ready-to-be-fit initiative
Member of the Hamilton County General Health District Safe Community Board (1998-2000)
Invited to serve as an Editorial Board member for the American College of Sports Medicine's Health & Fitness Journal. Term begins in January 2002.

To Contact:
Phone: 513-529-2706
E-mail: kimiecjc@muohio.edu
Address: PHS Dept., Phillips Hall, Oxford, OH 45056