Former Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference incorporates Kinesiology & Applied Physiology graduate program into annual event The Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary Biosciences (GRIB) Conference is an annual research conference planned and executed by a collaborative team of graduate students from multiple life science graduate programs centered on the Rutgers-New Brunswick Cook/Douglass […]
Nutritional Sciences
SEBS Faculty Harini Sampath and Kay Bidle Receive Universitywide Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the SEBS faculty who were recognized with 2021-22 Universitywide Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards announced April 26 by Rutgers Executive Vice President Prabhas Moghe and Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway. Harini Sampath, associate professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, was awarded The Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. This award recognizes the […]
SEBS Assistant Professor Harini Sampath Awarded $1.9 Million NIH Grant Focused on Lipid Research
Heart disease is the primary cause of death in both men and women in the United States. In fact, about 1 in 4 deaths in the U.S. is attributed to heart disease, and management of this condition costs the U.S. almost $400 billion annually. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coronary artery disease […]
Dennis Dagounis (CC’01), Excelling as an Educator
The Governor’s Educator of the Year Program is run annually and recognizes educators of the year by district, county, and state. Dennis Dagounis CC’01 was named 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year for Union County on August 25, 2021. Among the 200,000 teachers in the state, Dennis was one of 21 lucky county award recipients. His […]
Celebration of Excellence: 2020 and 2021
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 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 […]