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On November 19, faculty, staff and students attended the 27th and 28th annual Celebration of Excellence for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station held at the Cook Student Center. After the pandemic put a pause on fully celebrating, the 2020 awardees, it was important to include them […]
Nutritional Sciences
Nutritional Sciences Professor John Worobey Retires
Professor of Nutritional Sciences John Worobey will be retiring from Rutgers after 37 years of service. A member of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Worobey also served as undergraduate program director. After graduating from high school in 1969, Worobey enrolled at Rutgers, where he planned to major in mathematics and become a high school […]
Nutritional Sciences Professor Tracy Anthony Awarded $2,686,804 NIH Grant in Quest to Improve Healthspan
Since she arrived at Rutgers in 2012, fresh from directing an independent research program at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Tracy Anthony, professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, has focused on exploring how protein nutrition and exercise can be used to reduce disease and increase healthspan. To continue these efforts, she was recently […]
Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student Telema Briggs Selected for the Louis Bevier Fellowship
Telema Briggs, School of Graduate Studies (SGS)-Nutritional Sciences program, has been chosen as a University and SGS Louis Bevier Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year for his dissertation, “Is There Really an App for That?—Determining the Capacity for Utilizing Diet & Nutrition Smartphone Applications as Extensions of Professional Dietetic Practice.” He is the first Nutritional […]
Annual Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference Resumes Virtually for 2021
The 13th Annual Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference took place virtually on Tuesday, April 13. We welcomed 96 attendees, including 21 poster presenters, to the event. The annual NEFS Conference is the result of collaborations between the Rutgers University Nutritional Sciences, Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences, and Food Science graduate student organizations (GSOs). Graduate students in the three GSOs work […]
Imposter Syndrome is Common Among High Achievers in Medical School
A high percentage of medical students feel like “imposters” during their first year of medical school, which indicates increasing levels of distress. This was the major finding of a recent study published in the journal, Family Medicine. Lead author of the study is Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) of Thomas […]
Second Annual IFNH Research Day Goes Virtual and Addresses New and Existing Challenges
The New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) hosted its second annual IFNH Research Day on November 4th. This effort, when all the units come together to present jointly, underscores the interdisciplinary approach of IFNH where the units work together to seek solutions to health problems in the social as well as the biological determinants of health. While the basic structure of […]
Veterans Day: Racheal Kim (SEBS ’21) Balances Undergraduate Studies with Military Service
On November 11, we commemorate Veterans Day in tribute to the men and women who have served the United States in the armed forces. Across Rutgers, we take pride in the dedicated service of those who have served in uniform, some of them still on active duty. Playing a pivotal role in helping our veterans advance and succeed […]
Veterans Day: Salute to Rutgers Alumna Ivette Amaya (SEBS ’18)
Each year on November 11, we commemorate Veterans Day in tribute to the men and women who have served the United States in the armed forces. Across Rutgers, we take pride in the dedicated service of those who have served in uniform, some of them still on active duty. Playing a pivotal role in helping our veterans advance […]
National Transfer Student Week: EOF Community College Transfers Fully Engaged as SEBS Students
National Transfer Student Week is celebrated the third week in October and provides the opportunity to highlight transfer students and the professionals who support them on their journeys. We’ve asked Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) transfer students and their advisor to share their experiences. Not only did they have the transition from their community colleges to the expansive Rutgers environment to contend with, but by working with the […]
