Welcome
to the Department of Foods and Nutrition
We are a rapidly
growing department with special strengths in calcium, vitamin
D, and bone; botanicals for age-related diseases; diet,
energy balance, and fitness; and an emerging specialty area of cancer
prevention.
Our nutrition
and food science faculty hold three University outstanding
teaching awards and six school teaching awards. Faculty
and graduate students are national award winners at professional
meetings.
We have more than
250 undergraduate and 52 graduate students. Our graduates
enjoy a virtually 100 percent placement rate. We have molecular,
cellular, animal, and clinical facilities and teaching laboratories.
Thank you for visiting our Web site — come on in and
find out more about our programs.
Connie M.
Weaver
Department
Head
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