Dr. Lin Yang is leading a VPR Catalyst Grant (UCalgary) along with her co-investigators Drs Colleen Cuthbert, Tarek Bismar and Kevin Martell that is a knowledge survey regarding an exercise intervention for prostate cancer men managed by active surveillance. This six-month project funded at $15,265 will inform further research on this topic in subsequent grants. Dr. Yang is also a co-investigator on a one-year pilot grant from North Carolina State University’s Centre for Human Health and Environment that is being led by Dr. J. Aaron Hipp entitled “Investigating the impact of environmental greenspace exposure on telomere length”. The other co-investigators on this study are Drs Scott S. Ogletree and David Reif.