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2009 Michael L. Pollock Student Scholarship Application

The deadline for this award is April 3, 2009. 

Click here to download see eligibility and download the application.

For questions regarding this award, please email foundation@acsm.org.

Each year ACSM awards individuals who have excelled in health-related research. 
For more information about each of the awards, please download the applications below. 
The deadline for the 2009 Research Awards has passed. Please check back in fall 2009 for the 2010 Research Awards Applications.

The New Investigator Awards

The New Investigator Awards are intended to recognize new investigators who, as a consequence of their educational background/training and quality of initial independent research productivity, have begun and are likely to continue to make a significant contribution to knowledge in basic or clinical exercise science or sports medicine. 

Charles M. Tipton National Student Research Awards

This award will be presented to the student with the most outstanding research project of the year. An important consideration for the award is the extent of the student's participation in the project.  

Visiting Scholar Award

The Visiting Scholar Award is given to investigators who need further experience as independent researchers. The purpose of the award is to provide financial support for an investigator to visit a clinic or laboratory of his/her choice to learn new and current techniques in exercise and sports medicine. 

Congratulations to the 2008 recipients of the ACSM Research Awards!

ACSM Foundation Research Grant Program

It is a priority of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Foundation to support basic, applied, clinical, and behavioral research. Click here to view current grant opportunities offered by the ACSM Foundation. The listing is revised as new opportunities arise. Additionally, all new initiatives are announced in official ACSM publications (Sports Medicine Bulletin and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise). 

The Research Administration and Programs Department serves as a scientific information source for members and other ACSM National Center departments.  Information about the programs served, including the ACSM Roundtable Series and ACSM Specialty Conference Series can be accessed by clicking here.

ACSM's Health & Physical Activity Reference Database

The American College of Sports Medicine Office of Museum, History, and Archives is pleased to provide the Health and Physical Activity Reference Database of articles and books published over the past 200 years or more related generally, to the connection between health and physical exercise and the early history of the physiology of exercise. Most of the material was written in English and was published in  North America.   However, some material was published in France, Germany, and England, among a few other countries.

The references were selected from a large number of published material and are by no means a complete listing. The listings are divided into two distinct reference databases.   One, titled "Health and Physical Activity", includes 3,131 separate citations to literature.  The second, titled "Exercise Physiology", includes 223 references from the literature.  Access ACSM's Health & Physical Activity Reference Database today.