Chewing over the Numbers: How Food Consumption Data Are Driving Nutrition Policy
Alicia Carriquiry
Tuesday, 16 Nov 2010 at 7:30 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Alicia Carriquiry is a distinguished professor of statistics at Iowa State and a researcher whose experience covers a wide range of contemporary issues, from nutrition to ballistics, genomics to traffic safety, and forensics to women in science and engineering. She has advised the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the design and analysis of national dietary intake surveys and helped write a report for the National Academy of Sciences that became the basis of the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Carriquiry earned her PhD in statistics and animal genetics from Iowa State. She served as an associate provost at ISU from 2000-4. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.Cosponsored By:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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