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

Chief Brewing Officer, Gilded Goat and Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Bioengineered yeast strains
• Fermentation and brewing process

Associate 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

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:

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

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

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

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