Welcome to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of Nutrition. Our department consists of a dynamic and interdisciplinary faculty housed in both the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine. The faculty includes more than 50 individuals who hold either primary or joint appointments and serve as experts in areas including clinical nutrition, public health program development and evaluation, nutrition interventions, policy, nutritional physiology and metabolism, population research and eating behaviors. The Dept. of Nutrition offers several degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our education program provides a broad training curriculum in public health sciences, offering courses in the physiological, biochemical, and behavioral aspects of nutrition as well as their applications in the health of human populations. 

Find out more about our department's programs and resources:

• 2006-2007 Nutrition Department Fact Sheet (Word document)
• Marilyn Gentry Fellowship Information
• Obesity Research Core: An Interdisciplinary Strategy for Obesity—NIH Roadmap Center Planning Grant
• Clinical Nutrition Research Center: Helping scientists discover the roles of nutrition in health
• Nutrition-Related Links: A web resource for researchers and the public
  

• Kiyah Duffey, PhD was awarded a CDC Grant for Public Health Research Dissertation
• 2007-2008 Department of Nutrition Award Recipients
  
• Lucia Leone winner of the Distinguished Student Award for Excellence in Research from the Society for Behavioral Medicine
  
• Student Jessie Ellis selected for 2008 CARGILL Pre-doctoral Fellowship
• Komal Parikh and Kerry Bertke have been awarded the James Henley Thompson and Evelyn Barnett Thompson Undergraduate Research Award
• Peggy Bentley speaks on charting course in global health in the new edition of Science
  
• Erik Karlsson named winner of the Wrigley Science Institute Predoctoral Followship.  Erik is also a finalist for the Proctor and Gamble student abstract award competition given by the American Society for Nutrition. He received 2nd place for the Nutritional Immunology Research Interest Section poster competition  from the American Society of Nutrition, and is the recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine.
• Marci Campbell to lead new survivorship programs at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
  
• The American Society for Nutrition will award it's Osborne and Mendel Award to Steven Zeisel, MD, PhD, in recognition of outstanding research accomplishments in nutrition. Dr. Zeisel also was recognized in 2007 by the American College of Nutrition with their ACN lifetime achievement award for research accomplishments in nutrition.
• Distinguished Researcher:  Steve Zeisel, MD, PhD, named winner of Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research
• Barry Popkin, PhD, as the Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor (Word document)
  
• Congratulations to all our 2007-2008 student award recipients (Word document)
  
• Nutrition Department News: The latest in research and school news at UNC
• Anna Maria Siega-Riz is the 2007 recipient of the Agnes Higgins Award presentation given by the March of Dimes

Rosalind Coleman named winner of the Working on Women in Science (WOWS) Scholar award from the UNC School of Medicine.