Three Marquette University professors have been chosen as recipients of a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of exercise in adults.

Dr. Sandra Hunter, professor of exercise science at Marquette's College of Health Sciences, and Dr. Chris Sundberg, assistant professor of exercise science there; along with Dr. Robert Fitts, professor emeritus of biological sciences at the university's Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, were given the funding for a study on the effect that exercise has on adults.

The grant is titled “Fatigability of Limb Muscle in Older Adults: Protective Effects of Exercise,” and will consist of clinical trials to see what impact resistance exercise has on the power, muscular function and stamina of older adults.

The dean of Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences, Dr. William E. Cullinan, noted that the study would make good use of “cross-disciplinary collaboration.”

“The work among these researchers, both within the College of Health Sciences and across the university, will generate robust and comprehensive data on how exercise can be deployed as a preventative health tool in aging populations,” Cullinan said in a release issued on the university's website.