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The School of Public Health
is accredited through 2017 by:
Council on Education
for Public Health (CEPH)
Research goals
The Department of Nutrition has defined the following four goals for our current research endeavors
1. Examine the nutrition and health effects of plant foods and plant based diet patterns.
2. Help vegetarians to eat adequately and optimally. This includes assessing the safety, adequacy and optimacy of vegetarian eating patterns.
3. Assess the potential impact of animal vs plant foods on nutirion, on microbial contamination and sanitary concerns, and on the environment
4. Community nutrition
Active grants
Walnuts and Healthy Aging a dual center single blind, randomized controlled intervention study
Teen Food and Development Study to determine what nutrients, foods and food groups are associated with differeing aspects of development
Incorporating avocados in meals: Effect on glycemic index, insulin response, satiety and satiety-related gastrointestinal peptides in humans.
Recent publications and presentations
Faculty and students from the Department of Nutrition are invited to present research around the globe and our research is published by both nutrition and medical journals. For a list of our recent pubications and presentations follow the links below.
Selected Doctoral Student Research
Previous Research
Previous research by the Department of Nutrition can be found at the following websites:
- Nut studies This website is dedicated to the results of the many department research studies conducted on the health and nutrtion properties of tree nuts. The website includes a thorough library of recent medical and nutrition journal articles on nut research from around the world
- Vegetarian nutrition This website is dedicated to the research presented at the International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition and includes much research conducted in the Department of Nutrition, including the Vegetarian Food Pyramid