Savaiano named chair-elect of national human sciences group
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Dennis Savaiano will become chair of the Board on Human Sciences in November 2007 when Shirley L. Baugher from the University of Minnesota steps down. The board is one of five boards of the Commission on Food, Environment and Renewable Resources for the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
The Board on Human Sciences conducts activities and programs for its 68 member colleges and universities. It is comprised of administrators representing scientists and educators at state and land-grant colleges.
Savaiano said the board is active in allowing human sciences units to better position themselves to meet the growing demands for their discovery, learning and engagement programs.
"My election is a reflection of the growth of Purdue's College of Consumer and Family Sciences, which is one of the largest of its kind in the United States," Savaiano said. "The college has grown 40 percent in the last 10 years and is expanding research five-fold through external funding with major support from the National Health Service and the U.S. departments of education, agriculture and defense."
Savaiano joined Purdue in 1995 as dean of the College of Consumer and Family Sciences. He researches lactose digestion and lactose intolerance and the effect of diet on intestinal bacteria. He also focuses on food products for health and family nutrition and studies how diet and exercise play a major role in cancer prevention.
He's published numerous refereed scientific journal articles, 26 chapters in books or monographs, and more than 70 abstracts presented at national research meetings.
Savaiano is an American College of Nutrition Fellow and is a member of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, the American Society for Nutritional Science, the Council of Administrators of Family and Consumer Sciences, the Institute of Food Technologists, and Kappa Omicron Nu. He also is a contributing editor to "Nutrition Reviews."
Savaiano received a bachelor's degree in biology in 1975 from Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif., and earned his master's and doctoral degrees in nutrition from the University of California at Davis in 1978 and 1980, respectively.
Writer: Maggie Morris, (765) 494-2432, maggiemorris@purdue.edu
Source: Dennis Savaiano, (765) 494-8213, savaiano@purdue.edu
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