Application Deadline: January 1, 2010
Graduate Program in Nutrition
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The mission of the Nutrition Program is to promote and develop leaders in Nutrition. The program provides leadership and a central focus for nutrition research and education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It enhances the quality and breadth of nutrition by integrating resources and expertise across departments and colleges.
The Graduate Program in Nutrition offers both MS and PhD degrees.
The Program has brought together individuals from various units to address extremely broad and complicated issues in nutrition. Some of the capabilities of the interdisciplinary approach of this program include:
- Increasing knowledge of human and animal requirements for nutrients necessary for optimal growth and well-being, including the interactions among nutrients, the environment and disease.
- Improving methods for assessing nutritional status.
- Determining the nutrient composition of foods and the impact of agricultural practices, handling, food processing, and cooking on nutrient composition.
- Increasing knowledge of factors affecting food preferences and habits plus developing various intervention strategies and evaluating their nutritional impact at the individual and population level.
- Improving techniques and equipment to guide consumers in selection of food and nutritionally adequate diets.
- Increasing knowledge of the regulation of metabolism in humans and animals, including molecular, physiological and behavioral aspects.
