Department of Nutrition

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    1. The Nutrition Club
    2. Nutrition Graduate Student Association
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  16. The UNCG Center for Research Excellence in Bioactive Food Components
  17. Employment Opportunities
  18. Vision, Mission, Values, and Goals
  19. HES

Current Research

There are three signature areas of research in Nutrition:

    1) obesity, energy balance and chronic disease (Drs. Brown, Lovelady, McIntosh, Morrison);

    2) bioactive food component effects on cell function and prevention of disease processes (Drs. Erikson, Jia, Kipp, Loo, McIntosh, Morrison, Taylor); and

    3) nutrition risks and needs of underserved/limited resource populations (Drs. Dharod, Haldeman, Savoca, Taylor)
( download a Dept. of Nutrition Research brochure here)

Current studies include:

Research Facilities and Equipment

Department research facilities include modern nutrition science laboratories, The Dickson/Harris Teeter Cellular and Molecular Nutrition Laboratory, and The Cemala Foundation Human Nutrition Research Laboratories. State of the art laboratory equipment including Applied Biosystems 7500 FAST PCR System, Nanodrop and Beckman spectrophotometers, flow cytometer, radioisotope detection units, microtiter plate readers, luminometer, an imaging system, high-speed and ultracentrifuges, standard cell culture and molecular biology equipment, and inverted and direct light microscopes with fluorescent capabilities. The Human Nutrition Research Labs include anthropometric equipment available for field research, exercise testing equipment, a phlebotomy and anthropometric measurement room, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer (DEXA) bone density unit, and Nutrition Data System for Research software for dietary intake analysis. Computer facilities are conveniently located in multiple campus computer centers. The library collection and support personnel enhance the research environment.

Departmental Research Staff

Paula Cooney
Robin Hopkins, Ph.D.

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Page updated: 08-Sep-2009

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Department of Nutrition
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
VOICE 336.334.5313
EMAIL nutrition@uncg.edu