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The nomination period for the 2018-2019 College of Health and Human Performance (HHP) Teacher/Adviser of the Year is now open. If you know a HHP professor or adviser who goes above and beyond and has a superior capacity to inspire and challenge students to reach their full potential, please take the time to nominate the person for this very prestigious award.
Paul Varnes, Ed.D., former chair of HHP’s Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism, died of injuries sustained by an automobile accident on Sept. 7, 2018. He was 84.
The Gators in Motion program uses tennis to promote character development, academic achievement and healthy lifestyles among youth from low-income neighborhoods in the Gainesville area.
Research numbers for the 2018 fiscal year are out and the College of Health & Human Performance topped $8.2 million in expenditures which is up by $1.4 million from last year.
The countdown to football season has begun. Will we see you this fall? Let us know if you plan on attending UF football games this fall. We plan to host tailgates for each home game starting two hours before kickoff.
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If you roam the halls of the Florida Gym this summer, you’re bound to run into the Class of 2022 here for Summer Preview and you will likely see construction crews, as well. In June, we will have several projects in the works.
Adeyoola Adeniji is one of HHP’s newest alumni – graduating this May with a Bachelor of Science in Health Education and minor in communication studies. Adeniji recently received the first Sobelman-Wellspring Foundation award at the HHP Spring Awards and was recognized as the Outstanding Four-Year Student Scholar at Commencement on Sunday, May 6.
This spring, HHP was recognized for academic excellence across the board by University of Florida, winning categories of teacher-scholar of the year, advisor of the year, teacher of the year, and the list goes on.
On April 13, 2018, we recognized 16 HHP alumni, faculty, staff and students who are making an impact within The Gator Nation and beyond. Their impact is profound and they are a source of inspiration and pride.
HHP welcomed Dr. Jen Welter as the 2018 D.K. Stanley Lecture speaker on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
Dr. Scott Powers was selected by the SEC as the recipient of the 2018 Faculty Achievement Award for University of Florida. The award recognizes one individual from each SEC university who has excelled in teaching and research. Dr. Powers is the UAA Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology and is widely-known as a scholar in health and exercise science.
At the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) annual meeting in November, Dr. Jalie Tucker received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group. The award highlights Dr. Tucker’s work on addiction research priorities that span the gap between science and practice and use a public health/systems perspective not confined to the treatment arena. She was also named a Fellow of the ABCT.
Use of this noninvasive biomarker tool could lead to new ways of testing treatment of the progressively debilitating movement disorder, said senior author David Vaillancourt, Ph.D., a professor of applied physiology and kinesiology in UF’s College of Health and Human Performance.
Read More >> Dr. Vaillancourt: Biomarker for Parkinson's
HHP's department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management at the University of Florida is honored to announce that Jeremy Foley, University of Florida’s athletics director emeritus, will serve as a Professor of Practice in Sport Leadership beginning Fall 2017.
Read More >> Jeremy Foley: Professor of Practice
Movement is the core to who we are as humans. It allows us to enjoy life. When you have a problem with how you move it effects your everyday existence.
The research being done at HHP includes movement disorders ranging from Parkinson’s Disease (PD) to Dystonia, however, one of the most prevalent disorders the aging adult faces is Essential Tremor.
We all want what’s best for our kids. But, research shows we might be dropping the ball when it comes to the physical literacy of our children.
Now, to be fair, you might not even know what physical literacy is. The idea behind it has been slow to catch on in the United States, but in a dozen other countries, especially Canada, it’s a program that almost every child is participating in. Dr. Mike Sagas, chair of the Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management (TRSM) Department at HHP is committed to making physical literacy a household term in the U.S.
The Center for World University Rankings publishes the only global university ranking that measures the quality of education and training of students as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research without relying on surveys and university data submissions.
HHP’s Dr. David Vaillancourt ranked among the 34 UF faculty members honored as UFRF professors. The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields.
On Monday, Dr. Scott Powers found out Fuchs had selected him as UF’s Teacher/Scholar of the Year, which Powers considers the university’s most prestigious honor for a faculty member. According to the UF website, the selected nominee will also be UF’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year award.
University of Florida researchers have developed a template showing the brain’s superhighways and how they are impacted by a stroke. The brain images required to create the template were processed on HiPerGator, UF's supercomputer.
Being active at a young age is key to developing a healthy lifestyle, said Trevor Bopp, an assistant professor in the College of Health and Human Performance at the University of Florida. "Recess allows kids to experiment with different sports and different kinds of play, which hopefully would promote physical activity and somewhat of a physically healthy lifestyle that they could then carry on," Bopp said…
The Bouchet Society seeks to develop a network of preeminent scholars who exemplify academic and personal excellence, foster environments of support, and serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy for students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the academy.
Dr. Robert Leeman was awarded a new 2-year UH2 research grant titled Mobile Combined Alcohol and HIV Prevention Including PrEP Uptake/Adherence for High-Risk Young Men. The co-investigators include Dr. Robert Cook (SHARC Director/Epidemiology), Dr. Jennifer Janelle (Infectious Disease), Dr. JeeWon Cheong, and Dr. Jalie Tucker. In this project, they will develop and test a multi-component mobile intervention to reduce alcohol use and risky sexual behavior among young adult men who have sex with men. Another longer-term goal of the project will be to enhance initial use of and adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in this population. This is a highly efficacious medication for prevention of HIV but it is under-utilized and when people do take it, they tend not to adhere to it optimally. This initial 2-year UH2 award will fund laying the groundwork for this project and enable them to build toward a subsequent 3-year UH3 award to fund a randomized, controlled trial to test this multi-component mobile intervention as an adjunct to PrEP.