Kelsey Hassevoort, Phd Email & Phone Number

Key Responsibilities:• Lead IHSI's Community-Academic Partnerships Core• Connect faculty, students, and community partners to conduct impactful community-engaged research• Direct and grow multiple community engagement programs for undergraduate and graduate students• Supervise program support staffNotable Achievements:• Led the expansion of the Community Seminar Series, a science communication and outreach initaitve• Developed the Community-Academic Scholars Program to support community-academic research partnerships in the health sciences• Developed and led targeted workshops to increase faculty grant-seeking success from multiple funders, including the US Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Spinning, BODYPUMP, and TRX-certified group fitness instructor at Illinois Campus Recreation.Key Responsibilities:• Develop and deliver group exercise programming across multiple formats• Mentor group fitness instructor traineesNotable Achievements:• Certified Cycling, BODYPUMP, and TRX instructor.• Developed and implemented an instructor mentoring program to develop instructors’ teaching philosophy, class design, inclusivity, and safety skills.• Created and distribute weekly newsletter to provide Campus Recreation participants with wellness information and home workout plans in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

Key Responsibilities:• Support multi-stakeholder research teams tackling community health challenges• Deliver targeted programs and workshops to support faculty development• Monitor the health sciences research funding landscape and communicate relevant funding opportunities to researchers• Support contract/grant proposal development within the health sciences• Coordinate multiple community engagement programs for undergraduate and graduate studentsNotable Achievements:• Initiated a partnership with Illinois Extension to promote research collaborations in support of Extension’s state-wide health education programming• Founded and led the Community Seminar Series, a science communication and outreach initiative providing training to graduate and postdoctoral researchers and evidence-based educational programming nationwide• Member of the Research Development Community’s Professional Development and Networking Committee. Organized and hosted monthly professional development and networking lunch series

Key Responsibilities:• Develop and implement experimental designs to examine the relationship between diet, memory performance, and hippocampal structure in older adults• Train and mentor graduate student researchers• Provide proposal development support for brain-health researchers• Coordinate symposia, meetings, and other events• Monitor the brain health research funding landscape and communicate relevant funding opportunities to researchersNotable Achievements:• Supported the inaugural Multiple Sclerosis symposium, an event which brought together UIUC researchers, MS advocates and family members, and nonprofit and industry partners to share knowledge and plan future collaborations. • Coordinated Health IDEAS multi-day event bringing in outside researchers to campus to meet with campus stakeholders• Mentored graduate students across multiple research groups

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Key Responsibilities:• Manage multiple longitudinal and cross-sectional research studies involving the collection of neuropsychological, cognitive, diet, physical activity, and body composition data• Develop and maintain partnerships with multiple internal and external collaborators• Design and implement experimental designs to investigate the relationship between diet, aerobic fitness, and memory performance across the lifespan• Train, supervise, and mentor undergraduate students and laboratory staffNotable Achievements:• Coordinated collaborative projects among 3 independent lab groups.• Presented data regularly at national conferences• Successfully mentored 2 undergraduate students completing their honors theses, including experimental design, data collection, analysis, writing, and presenting • Supervised 14 undergraduate students working in the lab and led training in data collection, processing, and analysis• Developed and taught an upper-level Psychology seminar for undergraduate students focused on research methods, statistics, and science communication

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) undergraduate research fellowship. Conducted undergraduate thesis research in the Neuromotor Behavior Lab (research supervisor: Dr. Rachael Seidler). Utilized fMRI to examine functional connectivity networks involving the human cerebellum in neurologically healthy young adults.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Neuroscience

Title of Dissertation: The Impact of Lifestyle Factors and Development on Relational Memory

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Women's Varsity Tennis Team, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta, Chi Alpha SigmaTitle of Undergraduate Thesis.

Education record

International student at the University of Aberdeen