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Dr. Ellen Evans, Ph.D., FACSM, a WIU alumna and a native of Roseville (IL) will present "Optimal Body Composition for Successful Aging in Women: Interventions to Reduce Competing Disease Risks" at COEHS's inaugural Cheryl J. Cohen Lecture, 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20.
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WIU Alumna to Deliver Inaugural Cohen Lecture Oct. 20

October 17, 2008

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MACOMB, IL - - Western Illinois University's College of Education and Human Services (COEHS) and COEHS's kinesiology department will present the inaugural Cheryl J. Cohen Lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 in Horrabin Hall 78, with a dessert reception to follow in Horrabin 1. Provided to WIU through an endowment from Cheryl Cohen, WIU professor emeritus, the annual lecture will occur every fall semester.

Ellen Evans, a former student of Cohen's and a native of Roseville (IL), will deliver the inaugural lecture "Optimal Body Composition for Successful Aging in Women: Interventions to Reduce Competing Disease Risks."

Evans earned her bachelor's at Western in 1987; completed her master's at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); her doctorate at the University of Georgia; and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (MO). She currently serves as an associate professor in the kinesiology and community health department at UIUC, and she directs UIUC's bone and body composition laboratory.

As an applied exercise physiologist, the overarching goal of Evans' interdisciplinary research program is to create and disseminate knowledge about the importance of habitual exercise and appropriate nutrition for optimal body composition as it relates to health status, with a special interest in women's health and aging. Her research teams include nutrition, behavior and imaging experts. Evans has also co-authored more than 50 articles in refereed journals and given numerous national presentations.

According to Evans, her research program at Illinois is well funded, and she has been principal investigator or co-investigator on more than 20 grants, totaling approximately $4.5 million in external support. As importantly, she noted, she strives to be a committed and enthusiastic educator in the classroom.

The inaugural Cohen lecture is open free to the public. For more information, contact Dana Moon at (309) 298-1690 or DM-Moon@wiu.edu.

Posted By: Teresa Koltzenburg (WIUNews@wiu.edu)
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