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Jamie Benedict
Expertise | Community nutrition, food security and policies/systems that influence health; pathways to grad/professional school, and to a dietetic credential
Karon Felten
Expertise | Human and lifecycle (pediatric) nutrition, medical nutrition therapy, public health; pathways to earn a dietetic internship and credential
Brad Ferguson
bferguson@unr.edu | 775-784-6278
Expertise | Mechanisms that link metabolic disease to pathological cardiac remodeling and heart failure; pathways to graduate and medical school
Steven Frese
Expertise | Microbial ecology/the gut microbiome as it relates to nutrition, early life development, microbiology and immunology; food/biotech careers
Maureen Molini
mmolini@unr.edu</a | 775-682-7962
Expertise | Food science, food and culture, food service systems management; pathways to become a registered/licensed dietitian nutritionist, public health
Stanley Omaye
Expertise | Nutrition and aging, food safety and quality, health-promoting bioactive compounds, environmental health; pathways to graduate school
Silvia Stan
Expertise | Nutrition research, nutrition and cancer prevention, mechanisms of action of food bioactive compounds; pathways to graduate school
David St-Jules
stjules@unr.edu | 775-682-6635
Expertise | Distribution and determinants of dietary intakes of people with adiposity-based chronic diseases, and the role of nutrition in these conditions
Jolyn Wirshing
jwirshing@unr.edu | 775-784-6617
Expertise | Community and lifecycle nutrition, public health; pathways to registered/licensed dietitian nutritionist, nutrition healthcare careers