News and Events
2025 News and Events
- HHP’s Rebekah Maddux honored with UH Teaching Excellence Award.
- In Loving Memory of Jessica Wheeler.
- Dr. Billy Hawkins is a Recipient of the 2025 Sonny & Pam Vaccaro Impact Award.
- Discover HHP: Graduate Program Information Session.
2024 News and Events
- Hyunje Park Wins 2nd place at the Dr. Robert G. Grossman Mission Connect Scientific Symposium.
- 海角社区’s Special Olympics Research Program: A Collaborative Effort for Athlete Wellness.
- Charlie Hodgman Wins 2nd place in the Young Investigator Award for Poster Presentation at ISEI.
- Dr. Cottingham Honored with Community Leadership Award by President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.
- HHP welcomes New Faculty: Dr. Sally Paulson.
- HHP welcomes New Faculty: Dr. Ashlyne Elliott.
- HHP Games 2024.
- Soccer Starts Now! Introducing Soccer Skills to the Children of HTT.
- Hannah Gustafson Wins NASA Human Research Program's Grant Augmentation Award.
- Dr. Tracey Ledoux Wins UH Teaching Excellence Award for 2024.
- Rebekah Hunt's Research Highlighted at the 2024 American Physiology Summit.
- Dr. David Walsh is Co-author of 2023 Outstanding Paper from The College Sport Research Institute.
2023 News and Events
- HHP Games 2023.
- Dr. Billy Hawkins coauthors new book: Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II: A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism.
- HHP Student Excellence Awards 2023.
- Celebration of Life for Dr. Joshua Yellen.
- Stacey Gorniak Joins the Editorial Board of the Journal of Motor Behavior.
2022 News and Events
- HHP Hosts Sport Exchange Program for High School Coaches from Fiji, Kiribati and Tonga.
- Morgan Ferrara Wins NCAA Research Grant.
- 10 UH Sport Admin students selected for NCAA Final Four training program.
- UH Professors awarded $768K NIH grant to develop extensive neuromotor training.
- HHP Research Symposium 2022.
- Dr. David Walsh Inducted Into 2022 COSMA Hall of Fame as Master Professor.
- Commission on Sport Management Accreditation 2022 Conference at UH.
2021 News and Events
- HHP Doctoral Student Vivian Rose Featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
- USDA Grant to Prepare Hispanic High School Students for Careers in Food and Biotechniology.
- Dr. Pranav Parikh Wins Faculty Excellence Award for 2021.
- UH Assistant Professor Awarded CAREER Grant by the National Science Foundation.
- Scott Selected as National Nutrition and Dietetics Delegate.
- HHP Research Symposium 2021.
- UH Professor Awarded Research Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
2020 News and Events
- UH Professor Wins Brad Parks Award from the United States Tennis Association (USTA).
- Dr. Billy Hawkins Wins the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Service Excellence Award.
- Next Level Sports Industry Symposium.
- Dr. Gorniak's Study on Postmenopausal Women with Type 2 Diabetes Featured on UH News.
- HHP Scholarship Winners for 2020.
- Statement on Social and Racial Injustice.
- HHP Chair Dr. Daniel O’Connor Named Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
- Dr. Billy Hawkins is a recipient of the CLASS Distinguished Faculty Award for 2020.
- Irene Buckner Graduate Scholarship Winners for 2020-2021.
- UH/Baylor College of Medicine Collaborative Grant for Virtual Platform to Improve Motor-function of Cancer Survivors.
- UH Adaptive Athletics Hosts 2020 Cougar Open.
2019 News and Events
- HHP Faculty at Dietetic Internship Fair.
- HHP Faculty Present at the UH Faculty Senate Conference.
- HHP Scholarship Winners for 2019.
- Dr. Beom-Chan Lee Awarded NIH Grant to Evaluate Rehabilitation Systems for Patients with Parkinson's Disease.
- HHP's College Study Tour to Italy.
- HHP Research on Food Insecurity in Veterans Featured in the Media.
- Sport Admin Program Holds Mock Interviews.
- Daisey Vega Awarded Hispanic Health Coalition Scholarship.
- Live Broadcast of HHP's Interprofessional Education Seminar.
- Dr. David Walsh to Speak at UH Wellness Health Workshop.
- MAT Program at the Houston Marathon.
- Dr. Billy Hawkins Featured on Houston Public Media.