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Purdue's Center for Families (CFF) has announced fellowship recipients. They include:
* Leslie Cradler, an undergraduate in the Department of Foods and Nutrition, who has been awarded a research enhancement award for her project, "Are adolescent attitudes toward calcium rich foods and intake of dietary calcium related to the presence of grandparent(s) living in the household?"
* Carol Boushey, a professor of foods and nutrition, and Melissa Franks, an assistant professor of child development and family studies and theme leader in the Center for Families, have been awarded a Hancook Faculty Fellowship. Their project, "Correspondence in Daily Diet Quality of Patients with Diabetes and Their Spouses," will be supported for the 2008-09 year.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a 5-year grant of $25 million to fund the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) activities at Indiana and Purdue Universities. Connie Weaver, PhD, head of the Department of Foods and Nutrition, has been named deputy director of the CTSI at Purdue
Recruitment open for two calcium studies of young girls. Read more...
Wayne Campbell, professor, has been named a University Faculty Scholar. The program recognizes faculty who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction.
Jay Burgess, associate professor, received the Gamma Sigma Delta Award for teaching.
Purdue researchers, led by Carol Boushey from the Department of Foods and Nutrition, click nutrition with camera diet study
New Nutrition Education Fact Sheets Now Available for the Public
Originating as a student project in the F&N 530 course (Public Health Nutrition) under the direction of Dr. Amy Mobley, four new nutrition education fact sheets have now been posted for public use.
A fish safety wallet card for fisherman developed by Charles Santerre is addressing a targeted need. Nearly 1/3 million have been distributed since the first printing in June of this year.
An early biomarker for lung cancer looks promising. Dr. Dorothy Morre, Foods & Nutrition, and her husband, Dr. D. James Morre, Medicinal Chemistry, have developed this test from their studies of the tNOX protein.
Sarah Johnson, F&N Alum, was honored with a 2006 Best Concept Award from Food Management magazine for her creative renovations at Purdue.
Connie
Weaver, distinguished professor and head, was appointed
to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee charged
with compiling science-based advice for the new national
dietary guidelines. Read
more.
Inaugural Dietetics exchange program with the University of Dublin.
Botanicals Center for Age-Related Diseases receives NIH renewal funding.
A research
team headed by Qing Jiang, assistant professor,
has found the form of vitamin E found in many plant seeds,
but not in most manufactured nutritional supplements, might
halt the growth of prostate and lung cancer cells. Read
more.
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