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Safrit and fellow kinesiology professor
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Mildred Curlee Cooper Scholarship for Women's Basketball (named for her high school coach), the Safrit Measurement in Research Fund, and the Catherine D. Ennis
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in 1953, and earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from the North
Carolina State Women's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, or UNCG) in 1957. She earned her master's degree in 1962, and a Ph.D. in 1967, both in kinesiology from the
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Safrit's research involved quantitative studies of exercise and fitness, and devising standards for evaluating fitness. Her work appeared in academic journals including
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on campus, where an exhibition space is named the Jo Safrit & Cathy Ennis
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181:"Issues in Setting Motor Performance Standards" (1980, with Ted A. Baumgartner, Andrew S. Jackson, and Carol L. Stamm)
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240:"A Genealogy of Measurement Specialists in Physical Education and Exercise Science" (2003, with Ted A. Baumgartner)
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a video uploaded to YouTube by UNCG Alumni, includes photographs and interviews with Safrit
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Halverson, Lolas E.; Roberton, Mary Ann; Safrit, M. Joanne; Roberts, Thomas W. (May 1977).
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Safrit, Margaret J.; Baumgartner, Ted A.; Jackson, Andrew S.; Stamm, Carol L. (July 1980).
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and the
Measurement of Motor Behavior" (1989, with Allan S. Cohen and M. Glaucia Costa)
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Safrit, Margaret J.; Zhu, Weimo; Costa, M. Glaucia; Zhang, Liru (September 1992).
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Introduction to measurement in physical education and exercise science
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829:Wood, Terry M. (1989). Safrit, Margaret J. (ed.).
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