The Neag School welcomes Neag alumnus Dr. Carol Ewing Garber for a presentation on “The Expressway to Health: Essentials of Exercise for (Almost) Everybody and Every Schedule” on Thursday, Feb. 9 from 4-5 pm. at the UConn, Storrs Campus. The presentation, hosted by the Neag School’s Department of Kinesiology, is free and open to the public and will be held at the Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE), room 122.

Dr. Carol Ewing Garber is chair of the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) position stand on principles of exercise prescription for optimizing health. She is an associate professor of movement science and director of the Graduate Program in Applied Physiology at Columbia University. Dr. Garber earned her BS, MA and PhD from the Neag School of Education at UConn.

“It’s very clear that a little bit of exercise makes a big difference,” says Carol Ewing Garber, author of the ACSM new guidelines on quantity and quality of exercise for adults. “The recommendation to get 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise is still one of the goals, but the message needs to be heard that doing less is also helpful.” USA TODAY

For more information, contact the Department of Kinesiology at 860-486-3623 or Kinesiology@Uconn.Edu.