 Department of Nutritional Sciences
Letter from the chair
Welcome to the Nutritional Sciences Department web
page.
I have recently become the chair of Nutritional Sciences
and 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 Nutritional Sciences 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 Nutritional Sciences 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 two
graduate programs (Nutritional Sciences and Exercise Physiology) both
offering M.S. and Ph.D. 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 check
out our new web page as we hope to be able to share new and exciting
information as it becomes available.
Christopher Hardin, PhD
Professor & Chair
For More Information contact:
Mary Ann Steyaert
217 Gwynn Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
tel: (573) 882-4288
E-mail: SteyaertM@missouri.edu
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