Faculty News
Kinesiology
A group of researchers including Dr. Robert Eckhardt, professor of developmental genetics and evolutionary morphology in the Department of Kinesiology, received international recognition for their work, which argued that human bones found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 were not a separate species of “hobbits” but the ancestors of modern human pygmies who live on the island today. This assertion has sparked international debate on the matter, prompting Discover magazine to name the controversy one of the top 100 science news stories of 2006.
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The International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the Greek Olympic Committee have selected Dr. John A. Lucas, professor emeritus of kinesiology, as one of two recipients of its lifetime achievement award. He will receive the award in Olympia, Greece on June 20, 2007. Dr. Lucas published his first article on the Olympic Games in 1957 and has published an additional 199 essays in profession journals during the last fifty years.
