This year San Diego State University's School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences is celebrating its centennial.
From its inaugural days teaching physical training, cookery and dietetics at the State Normal School of San Diego in University Heights, the school has evolved to offer a range of undergraduate and graduate programs.
For a century, the school has provided top-notch education and training in the fields of kinesiology, athletic training and foods and nutrition. Housed in the College of Health and Human Services, the school also offers masters degrees in exercise physiology, nutrition, and kinesiology, as well as a doctor of physical therapy degree.
Throughout the year the school will celebrate the contributions of its students, faculty, alumni and community with the ENS Centennial Lecture Series, all of which are free and open to the public. The year will culminate with the ENS Centennial Celebration Banquet in April.
Lecture series
Kevin Petti
2 p.m., Nov. 14, Templo Mayor Room, Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union
“Connecting Art and Anatomy: The Cultural History of Art and Anatomy along the Italian Peninsula”
Ken Fujioka
2 p.m., Feb. 27, 2015, Templo Mayor Room, Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union
“Clinical Pearls on Choosing the Right Diet”
Seth Mallios
2 p.m., April 10, 2015, Pride Suite, Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union
“A Century of Pioneers, Innovation, and Practice: Continuing Legacies of Exercise and Nutritional Studies at San Diego State”
Steven N. Blair
6 p.m., April 17, 2015, Montezuma Hall, Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union
“We Will Never Manage the Obesity Epidemic without a Better Understanding of Energy Balance,” lecture and banquet
About the school
The School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences is a community of faculty, students and staff who promote health and fitness as well as the rehabilitation of those with injury, illness, disease or disability.
It seeks to serve as a nationally recognized center for professional and academic training within an environment that emphasizes scientific inquiry, discovery and application. To do so, the school aims to provide high-quality, innovative education to graduate and undergraduate students in exercise, nutrition and rehabilitation sciences.