{"id":68611,"date":"2005-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/leading-bone-health-expert-to-present-uri-nutrition-lecture-april-19\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T00:00:00","slug":"leading-bone-health-expert-to-present-uri-nutrition-lecture-april-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/04\/leading-bone-health-expert-to-present-uri-nutrition-lecture-april-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading bone health expert to present 溏心vlog免费B站 nutrition lecture April 19"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tLecture series funded by Providence alumnus\u2019 donation in wife\u2019s memory<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — April 7, 2005 — Bess Dawson-Hughes, a professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine and a national expert on the causes and prevention of bone disease, will present the second Rita Mainelli Lecture in Nutrition at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Tuesday, April 19 at 5 p.m. A reception will be held prior to the lecture at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe lecture, \u201cVitamin D and Musculo-Skeletal Health,\u201d will be held in the Galanti Lounge in the University Library on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston Campus. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIn light of the increasing concern about osteoporosis and the recent revelations about the importance of vitamin D to bone health, this is an extremely timely and important topic,\u201d said Marjorie Caldwell, chair of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Food Science and Nutrition.<\/p>\n


\nIn addition to her academic appointment, Dawson-Hughes is senior scientist and director of the Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts. She is president of the National Osteoporosis Foundation and conducts research on the environmental and genetic determinants of bone mass and fractures.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe lecture is funded by 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus Domenic Mainelli of Providence, whose donation in his late wife\u2019s name established the Rita Mainelli Lectures in Nutrition. The first Mainelli lecture was held last fall.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMy wife graduated in the 溏心vlog免费B站 class of 1947 with a degree in home economics, which at the time was almost like a pre-med course,\u201d said Mainelli. \u201cShe had to take engineering physics, comparative analysis and many other difficult science and nutrition courses that prepared her to be a great teacher in her own way.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter graduating from 溏心vlog免费B站, Mrs. Mainelli worked for Beechnut Foods educating new mothers about infant nutrition. She later was employed by Narragansett Electric Co. where she taught healthful cooking to local residents purchasing their first electric stoves. She died in 2000.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI chose to establish this lecture series to memorialize my wife and to benefit current students,\u201d said Mainelli. \u201cShe felt that nutrition education was very important, so I know a nutrition lecture series would be something she would be proud of. I look forward to helping to fund additional lectures in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe department is grateful to Mr. Mainelli and his family for funding this seminar series,\u201d said Caldwell. \u201cIt affords the department and members of the community the opportunity to hear internationally recognized scientists discuss their current research relating nutrition to human health.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFor additional information about the lecture, call the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Food Science and Nutrition at 401-874-2253.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lecture series funded by Providence alumnus\u2019 donation in wife\u2019s memory KINGSTON, R.I. — April 7, 2005 — Bess Dawson-Hughes, a professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine and a national expert on the causes and prevention of bone disease, will present the second Rita Mainelli Lecture in Nutrition at the University of Rhode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}