Register for Coffee Talk: Empowering women with exercise, nutrition strategies
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 30, 2025) — The University of Kentucky’s Active Girls Healthy Women Program is hosting a Coffee Talk session Tuesday, May 6, on Zoom. This event is open to all university and community members.
This month’s session will be about empowering women with data-driven exercise and nutrition strategies for life.
As part of the Sports Medicine Research Institute in the UK College of Health Sciences, the Active Girls Health Women Program is a group of researchers, clinicians and professionals who are working together to improve the health of girls and women through research, outreach, and educational efforts.
Coffee Talk aims to discuss evidence-based strategies to advance girls’ and women’s physical activity and health.
Date: May 6
Time: Noon
Location: Zoom (Register for Coffee Talk here)
Speaker: Abbie Smith-Ryan, Ph.D.
Smith-Ryan is a professor at the University of North Carolina, director of the Applied Physiology Laboratory and co-director of the Human Performance Center.
As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing, a place where ingenuity unfolds. It's all made possible by our people — visionaries, disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs, a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class medical center, all on one campus.