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2012 News

Register for the 24th Annual Virginia A Beal Lecture and Dinner:
The Challenges and Successes of Childhood Nutrition: What Works?

A Celebration of Child Nutrition Research and Practice in Memory of Professor Beal Monday April 30, 2012; 4:30-9:00 PM. Brochure.
Assistant Professor Jerusha Peterman testifies for National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
Jerusha Peterman, Assistant Professor of Nutrition, named a Family Research Scholar by the Center for Research on Families
Professor Claire Norton receives Residential First-Year Experience (RFYE) Student Choice Award
Nutrition students participate in the the 15th Annual SPHHS Research Day
Undergraduate students Elizabeth Lundy '12, Thony Tran '12, and Jeffrey Larnard '13, receive Alumni Association's Student Awards
Community-Based Research Panel Discussion April 4th
Shanshan Chen, M.S. student, has been selected by the Center for Research on
Families to receive the Family Research Travel Award for her presentation
entitled "Stunting Is Inversely Associated with Dietary Zinc Intake among
Adolescent Girls Aged 10-19 Years."
Nutrition Alumna Elizabeth Ward moderates WebMD Town Hall Event with First Lady Michelle Obama
Dr. Elena Carbone, Associate Professor of Nutrition, has been named Director of Community Research Engagement
Associate Professor Alayne Ronnenberg comments on "The Vitamin D Dilemma" in "Refresh: A whole health blog" published on the Supermarket News website.
Recent M.S. graduate Brianna Gray and current M.S. student Lindsay Moyer have been selected to participate in the 2012 Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Research Practicum sponsored by the Nutritional Science Research Group, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Nutrition at the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health. The practicum will be held March 12-16

2011 News

In Memoriam, Virginia Beal, Nutrition Professor Emerita
Nutrition alumna Elizabeth Ward appears on The Dr. Oz Show
USDA grant awarded for Farm to School Food Safety Program
Nutrition faculty present findings at Community Research Symposium

Doctoral student Nilofer Safdar elected President Pakistan Nutrition and Dietetic Society
PhD student, Kim Doughty, coauthored a paper titled Cocoa and Chocolate in Human Health and Disease
Second-year online M.P.H. in Nutrition student Dr. Joan Temmerman has had a paper published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition titled Vitamin D and Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Temmerman is a physician in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine
Recent M.S. graduate Brianna Gray was awarded the Janette Smith Memorial Scholarship from American Dietetic Association Foundation
Online nutrition courses shown to be effective in new research
UMass program leads to better food choices and fun
Hillary Wright '84 Nutrition Alumna Publishes New Book on Diet Treatment Plan for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

New books from Nutrition Faculty on Vegetarian Diets and Anorexia
New Community Nutrition Workbook from Nutrition Faculty and Graduate Students
SPIN is award- winning obesity prevention program for culturally diverse adolescents developed by Drs Anliker and Carbone and colleagues

2010 News

Dr Carbone presents UMass online teaching experience at education meeting in Barcelona, Spain

Dr Kim chosen as 2010-11 Lilly Teaching Fellow
Dr Cordeiro chosen as Family Research Scholar for 2010-2011
Dr. Cordeiro and student discuss food insecurity, race and childhood obesity
Drs. Anliker and Carbone receive 2010 Priester Award for extension work on obesity prevention

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