NEWS & STORIES
Sharing the latest in research, college news and student stories.
Could that ice bath be hampering your muscle growth goals?
Benjamin Gordon, Ph.D., an assistant professor of applied physiology and kinesiology in UF’s College of Health and Human Performance, analyzes whether ice baths reduce muscle growth.
AI in sports: A game changer
AI is transforming the sports industry, and UF’s College of Health and Human Performance has launched a sports analytics program to prepare students for a future where technology will shape the future of sports.
During a historic spring for UF men’s basketball, May graduate Hanna Lewis makes a courtside impact
Graduating master’s student Hanna Lewis’ experience at the University of Florida has been nothing short of epic, as she has helped reshape Gator sports history as an athletics intern.
- 2025 HHP faculty promotion & tenure recipients
- Summer travel trends
- HHP professor develops AI tool to better assess Parkinson’s disease
- “Newbie gaines” and strength training
- Health challenges facing astronauts Wilmore and Williams from months in space
- Heat can age you as much as smoking, a new study finds
- New sport management department chair
- Florida tourism: From crisis to comeback
- Sport tourism: From good to gold
- Here’s what going to Mars will do to your body
- One AI-based advancement at a time, UF leaders are transforming the sports industry
- Debate over college athletes’ right to profit from their name, image and likeness
- HHP educators of the year
- The impacts of California wildfires on hospitality, real estate, travel, health and safety
- Heatstroke leads to chronic heart disease, obesity in mice
- Should sports be a college major?
- Life-changing study abroad experiences help students find themselves
- HHP student selected for inaugural National Youth Service Summit hosted by the Allstate Foundation
- No time for exercise? Just minutes a day can boost heart health
- How to make robots more lifelike
- HHP students share experiences from IAVM venue management school
- Positive impacts of winning football games on local communities
- If you hate intense workouts, Zone 2 training may be for you
- Mauren Piucco, M.B.A., L.L.M., appointed HHP’s inaugural assoicate director of finance
- Health, passion and patriotism: How UF alumni Meghan Wagner found her purpose
- Too hot at Disney World?
- Scott Nestler, Ph.D., to lead integration of sport analytics at UF
- Disaster recovery and tourism, potential in coastal counties, Florida
- Traveling to the Oasis reunion concert? Consider insurance.
- Weighted high knees may improve balance and strength as you age
- UF professor helps change safety rules to protect Florida high school athletes
- “Cuddle hormone” oxytocin may provide pain relief and help curb harmful opioid use
- Las Vegas residents wrestle with tourism economy
- UF student researchers propel space neuroscience forward with NASA internships
- Machine-learning analysis of videos may help identify Parkinson’s
- UF researcher explores long-term health consequences of extended spaceflight
- Sauna before or after a workout? Experts weigh in
- Food trucks cook in the summer sun
- AI across the curriculum: Garrett Beatty
- America’s first female Olympic chamption never knew she was an Olympian
- UF experts explore calorie demand of Olympic athletes
- UF experts weigh in on Olympics economy and tourism
- New video test for Parkinson’s uses AI to track how the disease is progressing
- Garrett Beatty, Ph.D., appointed HHP’s inaugural assistant dean for innovation & entrepreneurship
- How AI will transform the Olympics
- Pattie Tripp inducted into Athletic Trainers’ Association of Florida Hall of Fame
- Rachael Seidler appointed UF Astraeus Space Institute Deputy Director
- Outdoor music venues are taking precautions amid extreme heat conditions. What concertgoers should know.
- Alisha Katz to lead college communications
- The first weeks of exercise are often painful – here’s what’s causing it.
- Should you cold plunge before or after a workout? Why timing matters.
- Evangelos Christou named National Academy of Kinesiology Fellow
- Ready to explore how space affects your brain?
- Helping UF move forward: Donor wall celebrates college alumni and friends
- Jalie Tucker named 2024 UF research foundation professor
- An NRL player died at training due to exertional heat stroke. What is it and what should coaches and athletes know?
- Meredith Berry wins UF excellence award for assistant professors
- Celebrating Thomas Clanton, BK and Betty Stevens professor in applied physiology & kinesiology
- D.K. Stanley Day 2024: Celebrating the College of Health & Human Performance
- Are muscle-building supplements a good idea?
- Heather Gibson recognized by the academy of leisure sciences
- Celebrating David Vaillancourt, Orchid Chair in applied physiology & kinesiology
- UF-led study could lead to new way to detect brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s risk
- Colleges are using AI to prepare hospitality workers of the future
- Celebrating love
- Revving up tourism
- Celebrating the UF College of Health & Human Performance Educators of the Year
- How to start working out again
- Chris Janelle’s leadership expands as senior associate dean
- Why women are drawn to solo travel and how the tourism industry is responding
- With $2.5 million in funding, the University of Florida launches a strategic sports initiative
- Long spaceflights, frequent travel take a toll on astronauts’ brains, study shows
- Survey reveals why people choose to visit Florida
- Pegboard test assessing movement could aid Parkinson’s research, study shows
- The most successful WrestleMania of all time? Florida sports professors saw it coming
- The unstoppable Benny Vaughn (BSHSE’85)
- UF achieves No. 1 ranking for online bachelor’s degree programs
- Rules are needed for human research in commercial spaceflight
- Space hazards: Scientists mitigate risks for Mars missions
- New grant studies heat stroke susceptibility in females
- Demetra Christou receives grant to study exercise regimens after breast cancer treatment
- Think being a NASCAR driver isn’t as physically demanding as other sports? Think again
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