The Institute for Sports Sciences and Medicine (ISSM) leads campus with cutting edge research on human performance, yet despite the ability of faculty to produce cutting edge research on everything from athlete performance to the effect of space travel on the human immune system, ISSM faculty have no permanent resources to cover student travel expenses, research costs, or equipment upgrades.
This Spring, ISSM doctoral student Tim Griest will travel with the FSU Softball team to better understand how sleep and performance are impacted by East to West travel, with alternating trips to Oregon, North Carolina, and back to California. Better understanding the impact of cross-country travel on sleep and performance helps our athletes play their best, but that travel gets expensive. For flights and hotels, the trip will cost Tim over $7,000.
Your gift today will help ISSM build a permanent endowment to cover expenses like these and if you give today, your gift will be matched 1:1 with a commitment from ISSM Director Mike Ormsbee. Our two-year goal will be to build a $50,000 endowment, with contributions from major donors, partners, and individual donors like you. Please commit your support today.
On campus, Dr. Mike Ormsbee and the Institute for Sports Sciences and Medicine continue to lead FSU and the North Florida community in human performance research. This Fall, ISSM and founding partner, Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic, celebrated a new commitment to collaboration at FSU’s Discovery Days via the joint appointment of Dr. Emilie Miley, Assistant Director of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Research at ISSM and research scientist for TOC.
ISSM facilities also saw their largest expansion in a decade to better serve FSU and the community. The expansion includes a new 750 square foot muscle lab complete with a mural by artist David Madden in the muscle lab, which pays homage to the late Dr. Jeong-Su Kim, friend and faculty affiliate of ISSM. The Institute added just under a thousand square feet of space for exercise physiology testing equipment and newly renovated lab space for Assistant Professor Dr. Kyle Smith (MS ‘18), whose research on how diet, exercise and stress alter the immune system has direct applications to athletes, cancer patients, and astronauts on prolonged space flight mission.