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<p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Amy Mullins, a doctoral candidate in Nutrition and Integrative Physiology and winner of the
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Esther & Del Grosser Scholarship</span></strong>, with her major professor, Bahram H. Arjmandi</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Neil Charness, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has announced that Amy Mullins, doctoral candidate in the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, has been awarded the Institute for Successful
Longevity’s Esther & Del Grosser Scholarship.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The scholarship provides $1,000 in support of student research.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The scholarship supports Mullins, a registered dietitian who has held a county faculty position with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, in her research on human nutrition and chronic disease
prevention.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mullins is working with Bahram H. Arjmandi, Professor & Director of the Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging in the College of Health and Human Sciences. Her research will investigate the daily consumption
of prunes in aging men, aged 55-80 years old, with a focus on cardiovascular benefits. The goal is to identify whether prunes can provide a preventative measure against chronic inflammation in osteopenic (low bone density) aging men and if consumption of prunes
can extend protection to improve vascular health.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">"I am excited to work toward finding practical nutrition solutions with far-reaching implications for improving cardiovascular disease risk in aging populations,” Mullins said. “I am honored to receive such a generous award
and know that it will go a long way in helping advance nutrition research."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Charness said the Institute for Successful Longevity was pleased to honor Mullins with the Esther & Del Grosser Scholarship. “Her research plan shows that creative work on longevity is taking place at the graduate level at
Florida State University,” Charness said.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#782F40">Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:btedmond@fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">btedmond@fsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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