National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences professor Chang Yu-kai (張育愷) was the youngest member of this year’s US National Academy of Kinesiology fellows announced at the academy’s annual meeting this year from Sept. 26 to 28.
Chang’s Exercise Behavior and Mood during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan: Lessons for the Future was cited by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) as a reference document during the pandemic.
Last year, Chang also translated the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) to Traditional Chinese and had a vital role in efforts to log the nation as “Taiwan” on the PRISMA Web site.
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Sports and exercise form the basis of personal health, Chang said yesterday, adding that he is honored to share his knowledge of kinesiology so that more people could benefit from exercise.
The Academy was founded in 1926 and is a member-based non-governmental organization. It aims to encourage and promote the study and educational applications of the art and science of human movement and physical activity, and to honor persons contributing to these studies by selecting them as academy members.
Chang is the fourth Taiwanese to receive this honor, with the others being Wu Wen-chung (吳文忠) who was chosen in 1976, Tsai Min-chung (蔡敏忠) in 1981, and Hung Tsung-min (洪聰敏) in 2018.
Chang obtained his PhD at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, in 2008 and began teaching at NTNU in 2018.
He helped found the university’s Physical Activity and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and is the head of the department.
He has authored more than 270 articles, was responsible for more than 10 chapters in international textbooks and headed the translation projects for four international academic works.
Chang is the sole scholar in sports science from Taiwan recognized in the World’s Top 2 percent Scientist List (sports science category) since 2021 and was this year invited to become the coeditor for the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, making him the only Taiwanese scholar to be an editor of a journal listed under the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
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