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Purdue Nutrition Science is participating in NUTRITION 2020 LIVE ONLINE, a virtual event showcasing new research findings and timely discussions on food and nutrition. The online meeting will be held June 1-4, 2020. Click here to see our particpation in the event including posters, speakers and abstracts.
2019-2020
- Inside the Purdue lab focused on SPIT: BTN LiveBig
- Robert Bergia, Clinical Emerging Leaders Award Finalist, American Society for Nutrition (ASN).
- Evan Reister, PhD student, Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Finalist (Obesity), American Society for Nutrition (ASN).
- Heather Eicher-Miller, associate professor, has been selected to receive the 2020 Nutrition Education and Behaviorial Sciences Research Interest Section Mid Career Award from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN).
- Rick Mattes, distinguished professor of Nutrition Science and department head, Public Health, has been selected to receive the 2020 W.O. Atwater Memorial Lecturer award from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS)/American Society for Nutrition (ASN). The Lectureship was established in 1968 to honor the memory of Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844-1907) and to recognize scientists who have made unique contributions toward improving the diet and nutrition of people around the world. Atwater, considered the father of modern nutrition research and education, was the U.S. Department of Agriculture's first chief of nutrition investigations.
- Laura Bowers, assistant professor, has been selected to receive the 2020 Peter J. Reeds Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) and its Foundation. This award is given for outstanding research in macronutrient metabolism accomplishment within 5 years of completing formal training of either a Ph.D. degree or postdoctoral fellowship.
- Heather Eicher-Miller, associate professor, has received the 2020 HHS Early Career Research Achievement Award. Award Announcement
- Donna Zoss, senior lecturer, has been selected to receive the 2020 Purdue University Jefferson Award. This award recognizes and celebrates individual Purdue employees for meaningful public service to their communities
- Andrea Lobene has won the 2020 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in Nutrition Science
- Shinyoung Jun has won the 2020 Outstanding Doctoral Student Award in Nutrition Science
- Yiying Zhao has won the 2020 Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
- Wayne Campbell, professor, has received the 2020 HHS Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. Award Announcement
- Allison Drook, current student in the Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD), accepted to the CPD next year, received the Lute Troutt Fellowship from the Indiana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (IAND)
- Jordyn Tucker, current student in the Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD), accepted to the CPD next year, received the Mary Hebenstreit Memorial Award from the Indiana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (IAND)
- Nathan Schaeper, current intern, Coordinated Program in Dietetics (CPD), received Outstanding Student in CP from the Indiana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (IAND)
- Rachel Clark, senior lecturer, received Outstanding Educator from the Indiana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (IAND)
- Monica Ramakrishnan, Yu Wang, and Yiying Zhao all received the 2019-2020 Compton Travel Award
- Chaylen Andolino, PhD student, placed third in the 2020 Health and Disease Poster Competition in the Cancer division.
- Andrea Lobene, of the Hill Gallant lab, has received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Trainee Travel Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science
- Why Older Adults Should Eat More Protein (and Not Overdo Protein Shakes)
- Why you won't benefit from eating more protein- unless you're losing weight or building muscle
- Food pantries can help improve nutrition, diet quality
- How does protein fit in your holiday diet or New Year's resolutions?
- Purdue University Women's Global Health Institute names new leadership
- Purdue leads team to strengthen nutrition research in Laos
- Purdue study looks at why we all taste food differently
- Hosting for the holidays? Here's how to keep guests with food allergies safe
- The science behind why, and how much, we eat at Thanksgiving
- The science behind the flavors of a Thanksgiving meal
- Dorothy Teegarden, professor, received a 2019 Seed for Success Award from the EVPRP office.
- Madeline Sheeley, PhD student, placed third in the 2019 Women's Global Health Institute Gradutate Student Poster Competition.
- Dr. Teegarden led a team of obesity experts that created an online resource: Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Research Sciences.
- Reducing Obesity and Improving Lives One Community at a Time
- Tracking Fat from Digestion to Delivery: Fat Fundamentals
- Beyond 'You are What You Eat': Purdue Researches work to unravel obesity biology and behaviors, with some surprising results
- People are complicated, but their spit is 'shockingly complex'
- Michele Forman, distinguished professor, received The Center on Aging and the Life Course Research Excellence Award.
- Ranking artificial flavors by how much they taste like the real thing
- Regan Bailey was promoted to full professor.
Dennis Savaiano is now Dean Emeritus. This recognizes his many years of distinguished service as Dean of the College of Consumer and Family Sciences at Purdue.
2018-2019
Rick Mattes, distinguished professor, was named as the President of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) for 2019-2020. - James Fleet, professor, was named a fellow of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) for 2019.
- Krittikan Chanpaiseng, PhD candidate, was selected as the winner of the Certificate of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research Award for 2019 from the Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs.
- Krittikan Chanpaisend, PhD candidate, was awarded a scholarship to attend the 2019 Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG) at the University of Washington in Seattle from July 15-24. Krittikan also received a Professional Grant from the Purdue Graduate Student Government to help fund her trip.
- Stephanie Hunter, PhD student in Dr. Mattes' lab, completed Purdue's Applied Management Principles (mini-MBA) program.
- Kassidy Sharpe, in Dr. Gletsu-Miller's lab, was awarded a FASEB DREAM Program Travel Award.
Yiying Zhao, PhD student, earned third place in the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Emerging Leader poster competition in the Diet and Cancer category. - Alexandra Cowan, PhD student in Dr. Bailey's lab, won the 2019 Nutrition Translation RIS Emerging Leader poster competition at ASN.
- Dennis Cladis, PhD student, placed second in the Emerging Leaders poster competition at ASN.
- Heather Eicher-Miller, associate professor, received the 2019 Mead Johnson Award from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) at Nutrition 2019.
- Michele Forman, distinguished professor and head, has been selected as a member of the ASN Class of 2019 Fellows.
- Jon Story, professor, has been selected as a member of the ASN Class of 2019 Fellows.
- Ryan Calvert, PhD candidate, earned the Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award.
- Ryan Calvert, PhD candidate, has completed the Advanced Graduate Teacher Certificate (AGTC).
- Cori Running, assistant professor, received the 2019 Rising Star in Texture Research Award from the Journal of Texture Studies.
- Heather Eicher-Miller, associate professor, received the 2019 Priester Culture of Health Award from the National Health Outreach Conference of the U.S. Cooperative Extension Service.
- Cori Running, assistant professor, received the 2019 Polak Young Investigator Award from the Association for Chemoreception Science.
- Kassady Sharpe, in Dr. Gletsu-Miller's lab, received the Justice Family Nutrition Award.
- Two Purdue nutrition science professors named to 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
- Jay Burgess, associate professor, received the 2019 College of Health and Human Sciences Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award.
- Feed the need: Toddlers' nutrition often short on vitamins, minerals, but long on sugar, salt
- Michele Forman, distinguished professor and head, received the 2018 H.A. Tyroler Distinguished Alumni Award in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health.
- Michele Forman, distinguished professor and head, received the 2018 Special Award for Epidemiologic Research on Critical and Sensitive Windows for Health Across the Lifespan from the American College of Epidemiology (ACE).
- Dennis Cladis, PhD student, received the 2018 Catherine Peachy Award. He received the award and presented his talk, entitled "Mineral and phenolic content in representative diets from seven countries for the International Breast Cancer and Nutrition Project" at the International Breast Cancer Symposium.
- Kim Buhman was promoted to full professor.
- Heather Eicher-Miller was promoted to associate professor.
- Andrea Lobene, PhD student, was featured as the Student Member Spotlight in the Summer issue of The Digest, a newsletter published quarterly by the Research Dietetics Practice Group.
- Joshua Hudson, postdoctoral researcher, won the Corporate Affiliates 3 Minute Thesis competition.
- Nilupa Gunaratna received a Seed for Success Award from the EVPRP office.
2017-2018
- Your spit might help you learn to eat your greens
- Saliva could influence taste preferences
- The most eaten 'vegetable' by babies? French fries, Purdue researchers find
- Wayne Campbell, professor, is the recipient of the 2018 Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Nutritional Sciences Award supported by Pfizer from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN).
- Mario Ferruzzi, adjunct professor, is the recipient of the 2018 General Mills Bells Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award from the American Society for Nutritoin (ASN).
- New study finds Mediterranean-style eating pattern with lean, unprocessed red meat improves cardiovascular disease risk factors
- To manage weight, it may matter when protein supplements are consumed
- Whey protein supplements and exercise help women improve body composition, not leading to bulkiness
- Purdue food safety professor to advise the White House
- Tara Henagan, assistant professor, was selected to participate as a Junior Fellow in the Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship Program for 2018-19.
- Breanne Wright, PhD student, received the 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Purdue Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives (OGDI).
- Donna Zoss, assistant director, didactic program in dietetics and continuing lecturer, is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award from the Indiana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (IAND).
- Michele Forman was appointed as a distinguished professor of nutrition.
- Jennifer Mansfield, PhD student, has been selected as one of the American Society for Nutrition Science Policy Fellows for 2018-19.
- The Coordinated Program in Dietetics received the Inaugural Academic Partner of the Year Award from Purdue University Dining and Catering.
- Kathleen Hill-Gallant, assistant professor, is the recipient of the 2017 Rising Star Award from The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR).
- Kathleen Hill-Gallant, assistant professor, has been invited to serve on the ASBMR Early Stage Investigator Subcommittee for a 3-year term.
- Kim Buhman was selected as a fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy.
- Jessica Ellis, assistant professor, is a recipient of the Teaching for Tomorrow Award, Junior Fellow.
- Nana Gletsu Miller was promoted to associate professor.
