The staff, faculty and students at the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center (AHPRC) are dedicated to providing tools, resources, and education for getting the Marquette University community to move, exercise to optimize health, and promote wellbeing. There are many benefits to exercising including boosting the immune system, cardiovascular function, musculoskeletal and mental health.

Research at the AHPRC

The Athletic and Human Performance Research Center (AHPRC) fosters collaborative and interdisciplinary research and action to optimize health and human performance across the spectra of age and ability while transforming students into scientists, intentionally guided by Marquette University’s Catholic, Jesuit identity and pillars of faith, excellence, leadership, and service. The AHPRC is a dedicated research space in which Marquette faculty and partners from the healthcare industry can collaborate on new research and cutting-edge innovation in the areas of elite athletic performance, human performance, rehabilitation, fitness data analytics, and other related disciplines. The AHPRC is part of the Office of Research and Innovation.

As researchers, we value integrity, honesty, passion, perseverance, intense curiosity, excellence, dilligence, intention, dedication, innovation, and courage.

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Research in Action Spotlight

Dr. Robert Scheidt, a prior recipient of AHPRC funding, directs the Neuromotor Control Laboratory which is investigating how to better rehabilitate individuals with neural injury including stroke and concussion. Watch the video to learn more.