Paige E. Rice

Dr. Rice is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in Exercise and Sports Science and Spanish. Dr. Rice went on to obtain a Master of Science in Exercise Science with an emphasis in Research at Appalachian State University. She then pursued a Doctorate of Philosophy in Exercise Science from Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Western Australia with some of her research taking place at Northern Arizona University. Her Postdoctoral work was with Drs. Stephen Messier and Jason Fanning in the HES Department at Wake Forest University.

Dr. Rice’s research expertise is primarily in biomechanics and the influence of muscle power on clinical- and performance-related variables in healthy and aging populations. She has mainly worked with dancers and older adults using dance as medicine. Her training is in basic and mechanistic neuromuscular biomechanics, focused on determining the mechanisms that underpin how our muscles influence health and performance outcomes in healthy adults and adults with neuromuscular and musculoskeletal challenges.

Teaching

• HES 370: Biomechanics of Human Movement

Publications