Kylie Blodgett

“The reason I am so passionate about the research that I do is because it feels like it has a farther reaching impact on the health and wellbeing of the Norwich community, and that is my focus in everything that I do.”

Kylie Blodgett is a Certified Health Education Specialist. She has conducted quantitative and qualitative research on exercise endocrinology, nutritional biochemistry, and health behavior. She is currently researching the interactions between social environment and eating behaviors on college campuses. She is passionate about understanding the integration of psychology and physiology in the manifestations of health and behavior. As her students will tell you, she is incredibly excited about how the body works and makes a point to discuss the importance of health and social psychology in college populations and how that may affect human physiology and overall health and wellness.

Her current research focuses on assessing the physiological, behavioral, and social needs of students at Norwich University and developing and implementing interventions to improve resilience, stress management, and mental and physical health. Blodgett is passionate about teaching, and making science and research accessible for students as they prepare for work in allied health and exercise fields. She teaches a one-credit course, "Resilient Bodies", offered to all Norwich students, which builds social, emotional, and physical self-regulation skills. She also teaches courses within the Department of Health and Human Performance focusing on Research Methods, Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Nutrition, and Exercise Physiology.

Ph.D. Health Education and Promotion, Walden University
M.S. Nutritional Sciences, University of New Hampshire
M.S. Kinesiology, University of Michigan
B.S. Biology, Norwich University

Kylie Blodgett conducts research in stress, resilience, and health behaviors. By studying factors that are relevant to their daily experiences and success, she offers students opportunities to engage in self-reflection and growth while learning about the research process and using that work to help improve the experience for Norwich students overall. 

Her research journey began researching health behaviors as a Norwich undergraduate student working on a project assessing the impacts of variable exercise intensities on hormonal responses to exercise. The research experience that made her fall in love with research was studying the influences of the social environment on eating experiences of Norwich students as part of her doctoral dissertation. She actively mentors students, advising that research is hard, be willing to be uncomfortable, ask for help throughout the process, and be thoughtful, engaged, and willing to both give and accept critical feedback to help the team continue to grow.

Blodgett collaborates with colleagues at Norwich and beyond, including Nicole Krotinger and her team at the Counseling and Wellness Center on the "Front-Line Project", a SAMHSA-funded project to improve mental health, resilience, and substance misuse behaviors on campus; Dr. Rachele Pojednic, Director of Scientific Research and Education at Restore Hyperwellness, assessing interactions between stress, health behaviors, and resilience as part of the THRiVe Study; and Dr. Amy Welch, Professor of Health and Exercise Science is also a collaborator on evaluation of the Resilient Bodies course.

HHPR 139 Research Methods
HHPR 200 Foods and Nutrition
HHPR 212 Health Promotion

Pojednic RM, Thornton M, Blodgett KR, Joseph R, & Kennedy M. (2023). Nutrition interventions on muscle-related components of sarcopenia in females: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Calcified Tissue International (in press).