Food Science and Human Nutrition Research Faculty

Professor and Extension Specialist EFNEP

Areas:

• Design, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs targeting limited-resource audiences
• Breastfeeding promotion and support
• Community-based nutrition education programs

Professor and Extension Specialist, Food Safety

Areas:

• Food Safety Communication
• Post-harvest Produce Safety and Quality
• Food Processing
• Consumer Food Handling Behavior

Professor

Areas:

• The cooking experience as a way to change food behavior and related mediating variables (e.g., attitudes, self-efficacy, preferences) in children and adults

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Areas:

• Adipose Tissue Regulation (Metabolic and Adipokine)
• Diet Induced Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis
• Visceral Fatty Acids Relation to Insulin Resistance

Associate Professor

Areas:

• Translational studies in cell models, small animals and humans to study the cardiometabolic consequences of obesity
• Role of the gut microbiota in the development of cardiometabolic dysfunction

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Critically examine the clinical efficacy of nutrition and food-related interventions
• Evaluate underlying mechanisms by which nutrition and food-related interventions induce clinical responses
• Explore the bidirectional relationship between nutrition and food-related interventions and food systems

Professor and Program Coordinator, Hospitality Management

Areas:

• Cross cultural tourism behaviors and management
• DMO (Destination Marketing Organization) management and marketing
• QOL (Quality of Life) issues in the hospitality and tourism arenas

Professor and Interim Department Head

Areas:

• Interplay between dietary eating patterns and exercise/physical activity in regard to energy metabolism and positive and negative energy balance

Associate Professor

Areas:

• Food and Culture Issues
• Food as Symbol
• Small Town Tourism
• Traditional Food Production and Preservation Methods

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Childhood obesity prevention
• Nutrition policy
• Food industry/organizational behavior
• Parent-child interactions
• Community-based interventions

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Predictors of Learning Outcomes Among Students in Nutrition Science Courses at CSU

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Malnutrition remediation by increasing diet diversity and food security of rural Rwandan households

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Biological functionality of plant-based foods in treating chronic inflammatory diseases
• Understanding how protein-polyphenol interactions can disrupt the pathogenesis of celiac disease and other protein-stimulated inflammatory diseases

Associate Professor

Areas:

• Integration of gut microbial, molecular, and metabolic datasets to understand how interactions between diet and the gut microbiome contribute to chronic diseases
• Diet interventions to modulate the microbiota for decreased risk of colorectal cancer in high-risk populations
• Identifying the mechanistic relationship between microbial dysbiosis and vascular dysfunction