April 9, 2021 | By CALS Research Division
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) has selected the 2021-22 graduate fellowship recipients. The College would like to thank the donors for making these awards possible and the selection committees that reviewed the nominations.
The Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association established the
Wisconsin Potato Industry Board Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship to support a graduate student who demonstrates excellence in research in the areas of ground water resources research or potato research. The recipient of the 2021-22 award is:
Trevor Crosby, Department of Horticulture Graduate Program, Major Advisor – Yi Wang, Department of Horticulture
The estate of Elsa Thomsen established the
Gladys E. Vail and Helen E. Clark
Two brilliant researchers in foods and nutrition came to Purdue University in the mid-1950s. They were scientists who happened to be women in a man’s world.
Gladys E. Vail and Helen E. Clark worked together at Kansas State University before arriving at Purdue. Vail led the foods and nutrition department at Kansas State, and Clark was an assistant professor of foods and nutrition. The two women began their lifelong friendship there.
After Vail came to the Purdue campus as head of the University’s Foods and Nutrition Department (now the Department of Nutrition Science), she invited Clark to also join the Purdue faculty. Clark moved to West Lafayette in 1954, and the two women elevated foods and nutrition science at Purdue to a new level.
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UConn Offers New Online Master Program in Personalized Nutrition
The Master of Science in Personalized Nutrition will prepare students for promising careers in health care, academia, and industry
Students in the Department of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources. (Kevin Noonan/CAHNR Photo taken before the COVID-19 pandemic)
After a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees, the University of Connecticut will launch an online Master of Science in Personalized Nutrition degree program. Enrollment for the program begins in the fall of 2021. The program responds to growing industry and clinical demand for trained professionals in personalized nutrition.
Webinar: Digital technologies for anaemia prevention programmes
Webinar: Digital technologies for anaemia prevention programmes 4 March 2021 15:00 – 16:00 CET
Online webinar
Digital tools for strengthening food consumption data
Ms. Victoria Padula de Quadros is a Nutrition Officer of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). She joined the Food and Nutrition Division at FAO Headquarters (Rome, Italy) in 2017 to support the development of the FAO/WHO Global Individual Food consumption data Tool (FAO/WHO GIFT). Her main activities are related to data management, data harmonization and statistical data analysis of individual quantitative food consumption datasets. Victoria’s academic background consists of a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences, a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology with specialization in Human Physiology, and a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition.
The Texas Tech Board of Regents convened at 11 a.m. Feb. 25, to discuss Tech System matters.
Tech System Chancellor, Dr. Tedd Mitchell, provided a report on COVID-19, presenting national statistics of vaccinations. In the statistics provided, Lubbock was number three nationwide in COVID-19 vaccinations.
Additionally, because of COVID-19 precautions such as wearing masks, social distancing and washing hands, influenza cases have been low, Mitchell said.
Regent Dustin Womble said, âThe attitude here in West Texas about this crisis and how weâre handling it, and whether itâs coming to an end and that things will return to normal is so different than it is in other parts of the country.â