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Cancer Prevention and Healthcare Retreat and Poster Competition
Registration ends November 20
A study by Mario Ferruzzi, associate professor of food science and nutrition at Purdue, has shown that adding ascorbic acid and sugar to green tea can help the body absorb helpful compounds and increase the absorbability of catechins found in the tea. This finding could potentially reduce the number of animals needed for these types of studies. Read more
James Daniel, associate professor, was inducted as a fellow into the Purdue University Teaching Academy
Early research by Mario Ferruzzi indicates sugar enhances absorption of antioxidant chocolate flavanoid
2009-10 Sara Lee Innovation Award Application Process
Buyer Beware: Estrogen supplements not as effective as claimed
F&N graduate student, Eileen Weinheimer, is one of three students selected as trainees for a new National Institute on Aging Program
Connie Weaver, head and distinguished professor, received the 2009 Robert H. Herman Memorial Award from the American Society of Nutrition. The award recognizes a clinical investigator whose research has contributed to the advancement of clinical nutrition, particularly the biochemical and metabolic aspects of human nutrition.
Wayne Campbell, professor, received the 2009 CFS Outstanding Undergraduate Honors Advisor Award.
Purdue study, led by Connie Weaver, finds dairy better for bones than calcium carbonate
Abbott Nutrition Sales Competition winners announced
The 2009 Foods & Nutrition Hall of Fame Reception is May 1 in the East Faculty Lounge of Purdue Memorial Union from 4-6:00 PM. We are honored to announce the Hall of Fame inductees:
inductees: Annie Watts Cloncs, April Mason, Patsy Mellott, Sandra Morreale, and Janet Roseland.
Friends and colleagues are encouraged to attend the Reception.
On Sunday, October 26, 2008, a reception was held to honor Olivia Bennett Wood's contributions to the profession of dietetics, dietetic education, and the Indiana Dietetetic Association. The reception was held in conjunction with the American Dietetic Association's Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo in Chicago.
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.
2007-08 Sara Lee Innovation Competition
Kayleen Wichlinski, a dietetics and business nutrition major in the Foods and Nutrition Department, Patti Tanner, and Matt Wolf win $10,000 Sara Lee Innovation Award Competition
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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