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Nutrition Education: Food, Nutrition and Health Research Centers
The human nutrition centers/departmental units listed below offer nutrition courses at undegraduate and graduate level, undertake research on promoting human health through nutrition, provide nutrition care for patients and educate people through their cooperative extension programs.
Center for Food Science and Nutrition Research California State University Fresno 2910 E Barstow Ave. Fresno, CA 93740-0115 Phone: (559) 278-5924 Fax: (559) 278-4849
Virginia Tech University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Excercise 338 Wallace Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: (540) 231-5540 FAX: (540) 231-3916 Email:
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The Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center USDA, ARS 2420 2nd AVE Grand Forks, ND, 58202 Phone: (701) 795-8487 Fax: (701) 795-8220
The center has five research teams with focus on:
Nutritional Roles in Cardiovascular Function
Nutritional Roles in Bone and Joint Health
Nutritional Roles in Physiological and Psychological Development
Factors Affecting Mineral Availability
Nutritional Roles in Gene Expression, Cell Cycle Regulation and Cancer Risk
Tufts University Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) 711 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111-1524 Telephone: (617) 556-3000 FAX: (617) 556-3344 E-mail:
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HNRCA scientists focus on examining how nutrition plays a major role in the prevention of the major chronic degenerative conditions associated with aging.
Johns Hopkins University Center for Human Nutrition 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: 410-955-5000
The center offers a multidisciplinary educational program in laboratory, clinical and public health nutrition and conduct research that will increase our understanding of the role of nutrition in health and disease.
Vanderbilt University Center for Human Nutrition 1211 21st Avenue South 514 Medical Arts Building Nashville, TN 37232 Phone: 615-936-1288 Fax: 615-343-1587
Research interest include: Improving nutrition support techniques, treating malnutrition, assessing the overall diets of older adults, and reducing the health complications associated with obesity.
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