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30 January 2008

Center for Science Writings presents: Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Diet, Exercise and Obesity, Feb. 6

Author Gary Taubes to discuss controversial bestseller, Good Calories, Bad Calories

HOBOKEN , N.J. -- The Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology presents, “Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Diet, Exercise and Obesity” on Wednesday, February 6. At the event, Gary Taubes, an award-winning writer for Science, the New York Times Magazine and other publications, will discuss his controversial new bestseller, Good Calories, Bad Calories. Taubes’ book argues that much of what we have been told about the relationship between body weight, diet and exercise is wrong.

This event will take place in the Babbio Center , Room 122, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. All Center for Science Writings events are free and open to the public.

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Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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