[197] MTSU Speaker Discusses Getting Communities Off The Couch

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 10, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

MTSU SPEAKER DISCUSSES GETTING COMMUNITIES OFF THE COUCH
Visiting Lecturer Promotes Exercise as Part of Healthier Lifestyles, Societies

(MURFREESBORO) – Dr. Steven Hooker will discuss “Partnering with Communities to Promote Active Living: Accomplishments, Challenges and Lessons Learned” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, in the State Farm Lecture Hall of MTSU’s Business and Aerospace Building.
This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the MTSU Center for Physical Activity and Health in Youth as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series.
Hooker is director of the Prevention Research Center, Graduate Director of the Master of Public Health Program in Physical Activity and Public Health and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina.
The focus of Hooker’s research efforts has been to highlight the relationship between physical activity and healthy living with special emphasis on policy, environmental and community strategies to enhance physical activity in underserved populations and rural areas.
Hooker is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He has received more than $13 million in research and program funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For more information, contact Dr. Don Morgan at 615-898-5549 or dmorgan@mtsu.edu.


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Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. This fall, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.