NST's nutrition program was recently ranked #2 in the country! The wide-ranging curriculum looks at everything from how nutrients get to cells to diet-related diseases. Graduates interested specifically in dietetics go on to become registered dieticians or work in food production, food service and more.
The Nature of All Things (Canadian TV show) | November 01, 2015
ESPM professor Katharine Milton and Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) professor Bruce Ames were featured in a Canadian TV Show, The Nature of All Things. In the episode, The Curious Case of Vitamins and Me, Milton discusses the loss of the ability to synthesize vitamin C in all anthropoids including humans and implications of this loss for humans today and in the recent past.
NST adjunct associate professor Dale Leitman has found that interactions with cell-growth regulating agents—signaling molecules in the cells—could indicate that low-dose parabens (found in many cosmetics) are more harmful than previously thought.
PMB professor Arash Komeili and grad student David Hershey are featured in California Magazine on their recent research on magnetotactic bacteria and magnetosomes.