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4/7/95                   Janet McCoy 

AUSTRALIAN NUTRITIONIST TO PRESENT YORK LECTURE AT AUBURN        
     AUBURN -- Andrew Sinclair, research professor at the Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, will
present the spring York Lecture on Monday, April 17, at Auburn
University.
     Sinclair will speak on the topic of "Twentieth Century Diets
-- Food for Thought" at 7:30 p.m. in the AU Hotel and Conference
Center's auditorium.     Sinclair, an internationally known
researcher in the field of lipid metabolism, has examined a wide
range of nutritional issues, from fats in the food supply to basic
lipid biochemistry. His lecture will focus on diets of the future. 
   In addition to the formal lecture, Sinclair will present several
technical seminars at Auburn.     The York Lecture series was
established in 1981 from an endowment by Dr. and Mrs. E.T. York,
both native Alabamians and Auburn graduates.  York served from 1959
until 1962 as head of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service,
leaving to head the Federal Extension Service in Washington, D.C.
He later became provost and vice-president for agriculture at the
University of Florida. In 1975, York was named chancellor of the
State University System of Florida, a post he held until his
retirement in 1980. 
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     CONTACT: Margaret Craig-Schmidt, 334/844-3263 or Mike
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