Department of Nutrition and Food Science

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College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Department of Nutrition and Food Science
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Nutrition and Food Science
Skinner Building
Marie Mount Hall
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Nutrition and Food Science
Mission of the Department of Nutrition and Food
Science To advance nutrition, food safety and
health by innovative research, progressive and
high quality education of undergraduate and
graduate students, and creative outreach
education disseminated to the citizens of
Maryland, the United States and the global
marketplace.
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Nutrition and Food Science
Current faculty and staff 11.25 Tenured or
tenure-track 5.25 Prof. 5 Assoc. Prof. 1
Asst. Prof. 4 Professors emeriti 5 Affiliate or
adjunct faculty 1 MCE Leader (EFNEP) 1 Instructor
(Dietetics Program Director) 1 Coordinator
(Dietetics Internship Program) 4 Front office
staff 2 Business staff EFNEP and NAL
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Nutrition and Food Science
Ms. Nancy Brenowitz Nutrition / Dietetics
Dr. George Bean (0.25 FTE) Food Science
Dr. Thomas Castonguay Nutrition
Dr. Robert Jackson Nutrition
Dr. Mark Kantor Food Science / Nutrition MCE
Dr. David Lei Nutrition
Dr. Martin Lo Food Science MCE
Dr. Bernadene Magnuson Food Science / Nutrition
Ms. Phyllis McShane Dietetics
Dr. Mira Mehta Nutrition MCE
Dr. Jianghong Meng Food Science
Dr. Mickey Parish Food Science
Dr. Nadine Sahyoun Nutrition / Dietetics
Dr. Liangli (Lucy) Yu Food Science / Nutrition
Dr. Cheng-i Wei Food Science
NFSC Faculty
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Current Academic Degree Programs in NFSC Three
Bachelors Degree Programs Dietetics Accredited
by ADA Nutrition Food Science Approved by
IFT Masters and Ph.D. Degree Programs
(Interdepartmental) Food Science -
FDSC Nutrition - NUTR
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Academic Certification Programs in NFSC Food
Safety Risk Analysis Professional Studies
Graduate Certificate AY 2006-07 - Four 10-wk
online courses. Dietetics Internship in 5th
year 8 interns per year from around the country
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Future Interdepartmental Graduate
Curriculum Food System Security and
Safety (Food Defense and Protection)
Robert A. Facchina Endowment 1.2 m Institute
for Food System Security and Safety (proposed to
university)
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Nutrition and Food Science
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Nutrition and Food Science
NFSC Budget
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NFSC Faculty
Nutrition Scholarship and Education Focus Areas
Nadine Sahyoun
Mira Mehta
Mark Kantor
Robert Jackson
Applied Nutrition Epidemiology Dietetics Nutrigeno
mics Molecular Nutrition Cancer
Nancy Brenowitz
Phyllis McShane
David Lei
Thom Castonguay
Lucy Yu
Berna Magnuson
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NFSC Faculty
Food Science Scholarship and Education Focus Areas
Lucy Yu
Jianghong Meng
Berna Magnuson
Nutraceuticals Functional Foods Food
Safety/Defense Processing Food Quality Risk
Analysis Policy
George Bean
Mark Kantor
Martin Lo
Cheng-i Wei
Mickey Parish
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NFSC Students Staff
Awards Recognition
Desiré Stapley - ADA Foundation 2005 ConAgra Food
Scholarship
B. Michelle Harris UM PCEMI Graduate Student
Achievement Award 2006
John Parry 2005 AGNR Outstanding Graduate
Student 2006-07 Dissertation Fellowship
recipient
Amy Mobley 2005-06 Dissertation Fellowship
recipient
Sanem Argin 2006-07 Dissertation Fellowship
recipient
Jeff Moore - 2006 Ag Alumni Outstanding Graduate
Student IFT Fellowship winner two consecutive
years
April Hsu - 1st place IFT Food Eng. Division
graduate paper
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NFSC Students Staff
Awards Recognition
NAL Staff - 1 and 2 google Nutrition rank out
of 276,000,000 websites
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NFSC Faculty
Accomplishments, Achievements, Awards and
Recognition
Dietetics B.S. Program among top 10 in U.S.
Only Dietetic Internship in U.S. with I.T.
management emphasis
Nancy Brenowitz ADA 2006 Regional Educator of
the Year

• Martin Lo MCE Specialist
• Alternative uses of tobacco project team member
  with Dr. Hanson.
• Chesapeake Fields Farmers Co-op. project
• 2004 Ag Alumni Excellence in Instruction
• GSD Extension Award of Merit

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NFSC Faculty
Accomplishments, Achievements, Awards and
Recognition

• Nadine Sahyoun
• Nutrition and aging program AA MOWAA
• Research reported by Reuters, AARP, NPR

• Thom Castonguay
• RNAi knockdown patent on treatment of obesity
• 2004 UM Inventor of the Year finalist

• Mark Kantor MCE Specialist
• Recent appearance on national CBS news segment
  on Energy drinks

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NFSC Faculty
Faculty Awards Acknowledgements

• Mira Mehta - EFNEP Director
• 2005 MCE Focus Team Award

David Lei Food Safety Risk Analysis Team 2006 FDA
Collaboration Award

• Robert Jackson
• 2006 Paul R. Poffenberg Excellence in Teaching
  and Advising Award
• 2005 Ag Alumni Excellence in Instruction Award

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NFSC Faculty
Faculty Awards Acknowledgements

• Jianghong Meng
• 2005 Appointed by U.S. Sec. of Ag to NACMCF
• 2006 Cheung Kong Scholar Professorship, China
  Ministry of Education

• Lucy Yu
• 2006 Ag Alumni Excellence in Instruction Award
• Five provisional patents in 2005
• Cutting edge research in bioactive compounds,
  antioxidants, nutraceuticals, functional foods

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College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Department of Nutrition and Food Science
0112 Skinner Building 301-405-1014 http//www.agnr
.umd.edu/nfsc/