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Lora Beth Brown to deliver BYU devotional address March 30

Lora Beth Brown, an associate professor of nutrition, dietetics and food science at Brigham Young University, will speak at a campus devotional Tuesday, March 30, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center on the BYU campus.

The devotional will be broadcast live on KBYU (Channel 11), KBYU-FM (89.1), BYU-Television and BYU-Radio satellite networks and on byubroadcasting.org.

It will be rebroadcast Sunday, April 4, on BYU-Radio at 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. It will also be rebroadcast Sunday, April 11, on KBYU (Channel 11) at 6 a.m., on BYU-Television at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. and on KBYU-FM (89.1) at 8 p.m.

Brown teaches courses in essentials of human nutrition, fitness and lifestyle management and nutrition and prevention of chronic disease.

Her research has focused on dietary quality among students, the impact of a college nutrition course and other educational interventions on students' diets and stages of change for improving nutrition in developing countries.

Brown earned her doctoral degree from BYU in 1982. She received a master's degree from Cornell University in 1967 and a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University in 1965.

Writer: Thomas Grover

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