Connie Weaver, professor and head of foods and nutrition at Purdue University, will deliver the 1997 Marqueta Huyck Lecture in Nutrition, "Preventing Osteoporosis," at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14 in room 100, General Lectures Building on the Wayne State University campus.
Weaver served on the National Academy of Sciences committee that recently revised the guidelines for calcium requirements. She is president-elect of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences and received the Babcock Hart Award this year from the Institute of Food Technologists for contributions to public health nutrition.
The Marqueta Huyck lecture is sponsored by Wayne State's department of nutrition and food science in memory of a former faculty member who was a pioneer in nutrition education.
For more information call the department at (313) 577-2500.
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