This summer, the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) worked both on and off Rutgers campus to educate local youth about nutrition and its importance in overall health. Partnerships with Scarlet Kids summer camp on Cook Campus and New Brunswick’s New Brunswick Fit summer wellness program granted dozens of kids and teens access to interactive […]
The NExT Big Thing Program – Sarcopenia and Obesity: A Tale of Two Conditions
Since 2022, the Center for Human Nutrition, Exercise, and Metabolism (NExT) at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) has offered a unique opportunity for students and researchers to learn about the latest advances in fields as diverse as how nutrients and exercise impact body composition in health and in diseases and […]
Rutgers Office for Research Celebrates Innovation and Research at 2023 Patent Celebration
The research and innovation community at Rutgers came together to celebrate its own at the 2023 Patent Celebration hosted by the Rutgers Office for Research. Some 171 Rutgers researchers have been issued a total of 315 U.S. patents between fiscal years 2020-2022 (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2022). Rutgers researchers who received patents were awarded […]
Senior Story: Alessandra Sommer (SEBS’23), First-Generation Student, Aims Higher
Alessandra Sommer (SEBS’23, Nutritional Sciences, with a Dietetics option) had her sights set on getting certification as a nutritionist so she enrolled at Union College to get her associate’s degree and then finding work immediately. She performed so well in organic chemistry that her professor at Union College urged her to aim higher and pursue […]
NJHKI Delivers Nutrition Curriculum at National Foraging Youth Resilience Summit in Colorado
In March, the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) partnered with Forging Youth Resilience (FYR) to deliver nutrition curriculum for FYR’s national network of 24 clubs at the FYR Local Club Summit in Denver, CO. FYR is a nonprofit organization with the mission to empower young people to build physical and mental strength by supplying […]
Rutgers NJHKI, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ and the Horizon Foundation for NJ Come Together to Volunteer at the Community Food Bank
Rutgers New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) is centered on the goal of making New Jersey kids the healthiest in the country and therefore focuses on health equity and community partnerships. The Horizon Foundation has supported NJHKI’s Culture of Health School Program for three years, providing funding to implement nutrition and physical literacy education to […]
Meet Alumna and RDN Jenna Deinzer (SEBS’16): Doing Great Things!
Registered Dietitian, Jenna Deinzer completed both her B.S. in Nutritional Sciences as well as her dietetic internship at Rutgers University, crediting mentor Peggy Policastro, director of the Culinary Health Program at the Rutgers Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH), and others for the valuable lessons she learned and her current success. EatRight, an affiliate […]
Rutgers Center for Lipid Research Holds 7th Annual Symposium “Into the Lipidverse”
The Rutgers Center for Lipid Research (RCLR) held its seventh annual symposium in November at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health on Cook Campus with the theme, “Into the Lipidverse.” The symposium was organized by early-career researchers Anastasia Diolintzi, Camille Duchamp, Ruta Jog, and Liming Wang, and brought together an outstanding group […]
Ending Free Meals in Schools is a Mistake | Opinion – The Star Ledger
By Peggy Policastro and Erin Comollo Earlier this month, we got inspired by what felt like exciting new energy from the federal government in fighting hunger. We were at a listening session held at Rutgers by Sen. Cory Booker in advance of a historic White House conference on hunger planned for this fall. “Food is at the […]
2022 Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Conference: Annual Conference Expands Its Reach
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 […]
