The 2013-2014 Student Research Grant and the Student Travel Award program RFAs are both online and accessible by logging in if you are a Huffines Affiliate (or Student Affiliate).  The deadline for the Research grant submissions is Sept. 30, 2013 and the deadline for the Travel awards is Nov. 29, 2013.If you've forgotten your log-in information, please contact Ms. Sheril Marek in the Huffines Institute (huffines at hlkn.tamu.edu).If you're not an Affiliate, visit the Affiliate's...

Catch Huffines DIscussion 2011 Scholar Dr. Molly Broad on a new video piece on NBC about exercise and obesity!  (Here's a link to her Huffines Discussion talk and her earlier podcast!).  Good job Dr. Bray!

The K-12 Summer Institute offers an extensive variety of professional development workshops focused on the connections between health and the environment. Participants will learn how to help students use inquiry based learning to develop an enhanced understanding of science concepts, apply the scientific method and better understand how the environment affects our health.You can find out more information about this great Institute (did we mention it is free for teachers?) at "k12summer...

The 2013-2014 Huffines' Faculty Research Grant RFA are now up on the web and the application window is now open! The purpose of the Faculty Research Seed Grant program is to provide limited financial support to Huffines’ Affiliate Faculty members (less than $7500/year) for research that contributes to data leading to proposals for extramural funding. As such, detailed extramural proposal plans must be included. The request for application (RFA) for September funding is now availab...

The Huffines Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. John Thornton has joined the staff as the inaugural Director of the Texas A&M Coaching Academy.  Dr. Thornton has been a long-time Aggie Athletic administrator including a stint as Interim Athletic Director.  Dr. Thornton's experience is going to be a great resource as the Huffines Institute and the Coaching Academy continue to grow.  Here is a link to the full press release.Welcome John!

The request for applications for the 2013 Huffines Student Travel grant program is now posted in the Affiliates' section of the Huffines website.  The program parameters can be accessed through your Affiliate (or Student Affiliate) log-in.  Please contact Ms. Megan Schwartz (huffines@hlkn.tamu.edu) if you need help with your log-in.... 

Grant Deadlines and the RFA for the Huffines Student Research Grants for 2012-2013 are posted on the Grant Program page of the Affiliates area.  If you are a student and want to apply for one of these grants but are not a Huffines Student Affiliate, go to this link for an application. If you have any question, do not hesitate to email us.

This is a great video about the Huffines Institute that was shown at the A&M-Kansas football game.  If you want to know a bit of the history and what we are about, check out this short video. 

We've started putting up text articles to help answer general questions that we get.  One of our first articles was written by Emily Schmitt and is titled "Is GU for You?" Researchers have studied diet manipulation for years in relation to delaying the onset of fatigue, and these studies have resulted in mixed conclusions. Scientific publications conclude...

A big congratulations goes out to Mr. Justin Dobson, who many of you know as our Podcast Producer (and he has all of the questions!).  Mr. Dobson has been hired by the Gatorade Sports Sciences Institute as a Senior Scientist in their new satellite facility in Bradenton, Florida.  While we'll miss Justin on our podcasts and in the Institute - he was also heavily involved in planning and pulling off our first Huffines' Discussion - we wish him and his growing family the best in F...