Human Movement Sciences faculty and staff welcomed new and returning students back on campus. HMS Assistant Chair, Dr. Eddie Hill, gave the welcome presentation to graduate students and faculty at the HMS Graduate Student Welcome Back Social and Orientation.

Hannah M. Twiddy, a Ph.D. candidate in human movement science will conduct postdoctoral research in Australia. Justin Haegele, associate professor of human movement sciences, was named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster.

Katie Holland and Steve Holland (Advisor Dr. Justin Haegele) were selected to receive the 2021 Ruth Abernathy Scholarship, a very prestigious award that typically recognizes two students at each year’s national convention.

As a defensive lineman for four seasons with the Old Dominion University football team, Mufu Taiwo played an almost anonymous role on the field, as do so many linemen. On Thursday, he was anything but anonymous. Now a graduate student, Taiwo organized the student-led March for Justice that began at noon.

About 300 people participated on June 11 in a student-organized March for Justice to protest the killing of George Floyd and other African Americans. Old Dominion University President John R. Broderick and graduate student Mufu Taiwo, who planned the event, led walkers through Lambert's Point and around campus.

Eddie Hill, an associate professor in the Park, Recreation and Tourism Studies Program in the Darden College of Education and Professional Studies, has been named Old Dominion University's director of undergraduate research.