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Lappe Awarded $2.35 Million NIH Grant

Joan Ortmeier Lappe, Ph.D., MS’85, the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss and Drs. Gilbert and Clinton Beirne Endowed Chair in Nursing and professor of medicine, has been awarded a $2.35 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine if increased intake of dairy foods in adolescent females with habitually low calcium intake will decrease body fat gain.