Nutritional Sciences

• Arpita Basu
  Assistant Professor
  
  • Dietary bioactive compounds- Green tea and berry flavonoid supplementation in Diabetes & Cardiovascular disease
  • Effects of flavonoid supplementation on inflammation & oxidative stress
  • Weight loss diets
  • Nutrition education
  • Metabolic Syndrome
  
  
  
  

• Nancy Betts
  Professor and Head
  
  • Factors that influence food choice behavior
  • Nutrition and sports performance
  
  
  
  

• Emily Boldrin
  Lecturer
  
  • Bone Health
  • Sports Nutrition
  • Caffeine
  
  
  
  

• Barbara Brown
  Food Specialist, Associate Professor
  
  • Consumer food
  • Nutrition issues
  
  
  
  

• Stephen Clarke
  Assistant Professor
  
  • Transcriptional and post-translational regulation of nuclear hormone receptors
  • Transcriptional regulation of RNA binding proteins and control of mRNA translation by bioactive food components
  • Metabolic response to dietary iron deficiency
  • Role of microglial cell activation in models of neurodegenerative disease
  
  
  
  

• Debra Garrard
  Nutrition Education Program Coordinator, Asst. Specialist
  
  • Community nutrition for low-income audiences
  
  
  
  

• Janice Hermann
  Associate Department Head / Professor
  
  • Community nutrition education
  • Elderly nutrition education
  
  
  
  

• Deana Hildebrand
  Assistant Professor/Extension Specialist
  
  • Community Nutrition
  • Child Nutrition
  
  
  
  

• Julie Huber
  Clinical Instructor and Dietetic Internship Director
  
  
  
  

• Carol Jarrett
  Clinical Instructor
  
  • Medical Nutritional Therapy
  
  
  
  

• Tay Kennedy
  Associate Professor
  
  • Maternal and child nutrition
  • Children with disabilities
  • Effects of micronutrients on child development
  • Effects of heavy metals on child development
  
  
  
  

• Solo Kuvibidila
  Associate Professor
  
  • Role of nutrition (iron and mushrooms) on immunity and inflammation during aging
  • Modulation of inflammation by mushrooms and development of (prostate) cancer
  • Modulation of defensins production by mushrooms
  • Effects of mushrooms and development of collagen-induced arthritis
  • Effect of nutrition - mushrooms on endothelins/endothelin receptor expression and cancer metastasis in bones
  
  
  
  

• Edralin Lucas
  Associate Professor
  
  • Functional food
  • cardiovascular and skeletal health
  • analytical methods
  • clinical chemistry
  • Nutritional Biochemistry
  
  
  
  

• Stephany Parker
  Assistant professor
  
  • Social and cultural aspects of body weight and food intake
  • Health disparities among women
  • Community nutrition and nutrition education for diverse audiences
  
  
  
  

• Josh Phelps
  Lecturer
  
  • Symbolic Interactionism
  • Theory Deconstruction
  
  
  
  

• Michael Rhone
  Lecturer
  
  
  
  

• Lenka Humenikova Shriver
  Assistant Professor
  
  • Child Nutrition
  • Nutrition and Obesity
  • Sports Nutrition
  
  
  
  

• Brenda Smith
  Associate Professor & Graduate Program Coordinator
  
  • Role of immune and antioxidant systems on bone biology
  • Inflammation, nutrition and aging
  • Effects of phytochemicals on bone and cardiovascular diseases
  • Nutrition, exercise and bone health
  
  
  
  

• Barbara Stoecker
  Regents Professor
  
  • Trace elements
  • Zinc and cognition
  • International nutrition problems