Sarah Dunn

Dr. Sarah L. Dunn, joined the CSUSB Kinesiology Department in Fall 2020 as an Associate Professor and earned tenure and Professor status in 2024. Her areas of scholarly expertise are in the early mechanisms for disease risk in young adults which includes: inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, adiposity, and/or vagal insensitivity. She is interested in how lifestyle interventions, incorporating healthy nutritional choices and physical activity (high intensity interval exercise) ameliorate problems associated with inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, and obesity. Dr. Dunn obtained her graduate degrees from the University of New South Wales and University of Sydney, both in Australia, and prior to that she completed her bachelor’s degree at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She has taught a variety of courses in Kinesiology, most recently; Exercise Testing and Prescription, Exercise Physiology, Exercise Science Research Seminar, Sport and Exercise Nutrition and Statistics. Her recent publications, An Introduction To Statistical Analysis in Research with Applications in the Biological and Life Sciences, The Effect of a Lifestyle Intervention on Metabolic Health in Young Women, Factors that May Impede the Weight Loss Response to Exercise-Based Interventions, and Relationships between Inflammatory and Metabolic Markers, Exercise and Body Composition in Young Individuals represent her interest in the exercise sciences and add to the scientific body of literature. In addition to her discipline specific scholarship, she most recently completed a 4 year grant, funded by the W.M. Keck Foundation, for Broadening Participation in Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) in STEM with a recent publication following the transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences Performance Following the Transition to Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic.