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Margaret graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As an undergraduate, she worked as a research assistant in an Alcohol
Studies Lab and a Behavioral Neuroscience Lab. She earned her Master of Arts degree in
psychology at Minnesota State University. While she was in Minnesota, she worked at the
Nicotine Research Program/Nicotine Dependence Center at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
and assisted with several tobacco use prevention and cessation projects. She moved on to
become actively involved in health promotion research within a low-income African American
population at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. Margaret joined the team
at the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR) in July 2007. During
her time at CHPPR, she has assisted in the coordination of several health promotion
projects (i.e., the North Dakota Worksite Health Promotion Program and several Coordinated
School Health and School-based Tobacco Use Prevention Programs) and has been responsible
for writing summary reports for schools involved in the Coordinated Approach to Child
Health (CATCH) program. She is currently working on her dissertation, which is
investigating the relationship between measures of physical fitness and cognitive
performance in the laboratory.
Email: mcowles@medicine.nodak.edu |
