College of Health and Human Performance hosts seminar, conference

February 16, 2006

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance will host a seminar today and a conference Friday.

The seminar, featuring a lecture by Stevens Scholar Doug Seals, is presented by the Center for Exercise Science, and starts at 4 p.m. today in the Florida Gym Room 1. Seals, a professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will lecture on how habitual aerobic exercise can preserve vascular health.

The Stevens Scholar fund, named for donors B.K. and Betty Stevens, is used to host symposia speakers for the college.

On Friday, the UF Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, in collaboration with the Center for Exercise Science, will sponsor the Vascular Biology Conference.

The conference begins at 9 a.m. in Emerson Alumni Hall Room 209, and includes 10 lectures by researchers from UF, University of Colorado, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of Delaware.

Admission is free and open to all UF faculty and students.