NASA lab director to discuss nutrition at UA
Posted on Thursday, March 1, 2007
Scott M. Smith, director of the Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, will talk about spaceflight nutrition and its implications on Earth during Friday’s annual meeting of the Arkansas Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.
Smith will address the conference at 1: 30 p. m. with a talk titled “ Spaceflight Nutrition: Implications for Earth, the International Space Station and Beyond. ” Other sessions of the conference are limited to people who pre-registered, but Smith’s presentation is free and open to the public. He will speak in the Graduate Education Building on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. There will be time for questions following the presentation.
The Arkansas Association of Family and Consumer Sciences conference will bring 50 people to Fayetteville for two days of sessions on Thursday and Friday. Members of the organization are secondary teachers, Cooperative Extension agents, university faculty members and business professionals.
The primary goal of Smith’s laboratory group is to determine the nutritional requirements for extended-duration spaceflight through operational and research activities.
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