Active Girls Healthy Women coffee talk: integrating movement into school days
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 14, 2026) — The University of Kentucky’s Active Girls Healthy Women (AHGW) program is hosting a Coffee Talk session noon Friday, Jan. 23, on Zoom. These events are free and open to the university and public.
As part of the Sports Medicine Research Institute in the UK College of Health Sciences, AGHW is a group of researchers, clinicians and professionals who are working together to improve the health of girls and women through research, outreach and educational efforts.
Coffee Talks aim to discuss evidence-based strategies to advance girls’ and women’s physical activity and health. This month’s coffee talk topic is on whole-school wellness and integrating movement into the school day.
Topic: Building whole-school wellness and integrating movement into the school day.
Date: Jan. 23
Time: Noon
Location: Zoom (Register for the Coffee Talk here)
Speaker: Angela Stark, healthy schools specialist for Fayette County Public Schools and AHGW board member.
Stark is an award-winning physical education and health teacher, current health. moves. minds. coordinator for KYSHAPE, and KYSHAPE president. She is a passionate advocate for bringing movement and wellness to every student.
As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing, a place where ingenuity unfolds. It's all made possible by our people — visionaries, disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs, a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class medical center, all on one campus.