Welcome to the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology
Letter from the Chair
I am pleased to share with you the exciting changes that have occurred in the department in recent months and also describe the long-standing successful educational and research programs in the department.
The Nutrition & Exercise Physiology Department has recently been expanded to become the only department on campus that spans three colleges (Human Environmental Sciences, Medicine, and Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources). This unique configuration poises and challenges us to become a model of interdisciplinary research and education on campus. Two recent initiatives exemplify this role.
The Nutrition & Exercise Physiology Department is spearheading an effort to create a unified first year PhD curriculum among approximately 6 programs on the MU campus across several colleges.
In addition we have initiated the Mizzou For You Healthy Lifestyles Consortium that is a coordinated multidisciplinary attack on the obesity epidemic in Missouri and the nation. We are recruiting multiple new faculty positions focused on this complex issue that spans from pipette to patient to population to policy.
Our department has a long tradition of educational excellence at the undergraduate and graduate level. We have three outstanding undergraduate programs (Dietetics, Nutritional Sciences, and Nutrition and Fitness) and two outstanding graduate programs (Nutritional Sciences and Exercise Physiology), both offering MS and PhD degrees.
Our research programs are grant funded both nationally and locally and include research in human exercise physiology and metabolism, bone density and exercise, vitamin D and bone growth, lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, molecular mineral nutrition, and obesity research. Our scholarly work gets national press attention with one example being Dr. Hinton’s recent work on cycling and bone density. Please keep in touch and periodically checkout our new web page as we share new and exciting information as it becomes available.
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Chris Hardin, PhD For More Information contact: Mary Ann Steyaert |
