[373] MTSU's Distinguished Lecture Series On Youth Fitness Offers Free March 30 Talk By Health-Fitness Scholar Robert Pangrazi

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Lisa L. Rollins, 615-898-2919, or lrollins@mtsu.edu

MTSU’s DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES ON YOUTH FITNESS OFFERS
FREE MARCH 30 TALK BY HEALTH-FITNESS SCHOLAR ROBERT PANGRAZI
Public Encouraged to Attend Free Talk by Internationally Recognized Expert

(MURFREESBORO)—MTSU’s Center for Physical Activity and Health in Youth will sponsor a Distinguished Lecture Series in Youth Fitness and Sports this semester, with free lectures from scholars in the field.
Dr. Robert Pangrazi, professor emeritus in the Department of Kinesiology at Arizona State University, where he taught for 31 years, will deliver the first lecture in the series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, in the Business and Aerospace Building’s State Farm Lecture Hall (Room S102).
An internationally recognized expert in the area of curriculum development in elementary physical education and activity promotion in youth, Pangrazi’s lecture topic will be "The Identity Crisis: What is Physical Education?"
Pangrazi has written more than 100 research and journal articles, presented more than 500 workshops and training sessions to physical education teachers and delivered an estimated 400 presentations at local, state and national meetings, among other accomplishments.
“His approach to teaching elementary physical education has been used worldwide by the Department of Defense Dependents Schools and nationally by hundreds of public, private, and charter schools,” said Dr. Don W. Morgan, professor of health and human performance and director of the CPAHY.
A member of the Science Board of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and a Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Pangrazi has been the recipient of Honor Awards from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
For more information on the March 30 lecture, please contact Morgan by calling 615-898-5549 or via e-mail at dmorgan@mtsu.edu.

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With three Nobel Prize winners among its alumni and former faculty, Middle Tennessee State University confers master’s degrees in 10 areas, the Specialist in Education degree, the Doctor of Arts degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree. MTSU is ranked among the top 100 public universities in the nation in the Forbes “America’s Best Colleges” 2009 survey.