Doctoral Student Wins National Yancey/Edgley Fellowship Conference Travel Award

Second year doctoral student and Wayland Cato Doctoral Fellow, Corliss Allen Solomon, has won the national Yancey/Edgley Fellowship Conference Travel Award for her work with increasing access to physical activity opportunities for African-Americans and Hispanics through joint use policies with faith-based communities. Corliss used the funds to travel to the 2016 Active Living Research Conference, in which she gave an oral presentation entitled, “Open Use Policies in Faith Based Communities: Increasing Physical Activity For All”.The Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey and Darlene Edgley Fellowship for Health Promotion, Physical Fitness and Community Education is open to minority doctoral students working in the area of obesity and community engagement. To read more about the fellowship click here.