Dr. Michael Carper, Ph.D., assistant professor and director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Pitt State University, and a 1990 graduate of Murray High School, has been named outstanding educator in the College of Education for the 2014-15 academic year. Teachers may be nominated by faculty, staff or students.
The award is based on all aspects of the teaching profession; teaching, service and research.
Dr. Carper teaches exercise physiology, research projects in exercise physiology, clinical exercise physiology, and technology and instrumentation in exercise physiology. He is a member of the American Diabetes Association, the American Physiological Association, the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and the American College of Sports Medicine.
Dr. Carper’s main area of research focuses on the mechanisms that directly affect skeletal muscle metabolism in vitro and ex vivo, specifically fatty acid metabolism in conditions of obesity. He is also interested in the affect HIV has on skeletal muscle and adipose tissue substrate oxidation in vitro and ex vivo.
Dr. Carper is the son of Bill and Norma Carper of Murray and the son-in-law of Joe and Kathy Roush of Winterset.