Movers and Shakers
Mary Story Elected to Academy of Excellence in Health Research
Nutrition Today Editorial Advisory Board member Mary Story, PhD, RD, has been awarded the highest recognition of excellence given by the University of Minnesota and inducted into the Academy of Excellence in Health Research. The University of Minnesota's Minneapolis and St Paul campuses are home to 6 health professional schools and colleges as well as several health-related centers and institutes. The university recognized Mary for "leading her field in understanding the multiple factors related to eating behaviors in youth by examining environmental, community, and school-based interventions. She is pioneering strategies for obesity prevention and outlining healthy eating and physical activity strategies for youth. Story is a professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the School of Public Health." She will join 17 other Minnesota researchers who have been appointed since the inception of The Academy of Excellence in Health Research. To top it off, Mary appeared on national television during October as well. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor, Mary! We are proud that she is a member of the Nutrition Today Editorial Advisory Board as well.
Aviva Must Named as Dean of Academic Affairs at Tufts Office of Public Health
Aviva Must, PhD, is the new dean of academic affairs in the Office of Public Health and Professional Degree Programs at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is a professor of public health and family medicine and has been a faculty member at Tufts since 1992. Congratulations, Aviva!
American Dietetic Association Awards 2 Honorary Memberships
The American Dietetic Association (ADA), the nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, presented honorary ADA memberships to Drs John Milner and Richard Deckelbaum this October. Honorary ADA membership recognizes outstanding leadership and significant contributions to ADA and to the advancement of the dietetics profession. It is the highest honor that ADA offers to individuals who are not association members. Dr Richard Deckelbaum directs the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University and has had a long professional involvement with translation of basic research in the cell biology of lipids and issues of human nutrition to population health and disease in pediatric population. He has published extensively on the role of children's nutrition in heart disease on basic pathways of lipid metabolism and on the factors linking nutrition to global health. Dr John Milner is chief of the Nutrition Science Research Group in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. Before that, he served as chair of the Department of Nutrition at Pennsylvania State University, and before that, at University of Illinois. He has published more than 260 abstracts, book chapters, and journal articles. His current research deals with the physiological importance of bioactive compounds in the diet on cancer risk. Much of his current research focuses on the anticancer properties of garlic and associated allyl sulfur compounds. As a young man, he had the good sense to marry Dr Mary Frances Picciano, another distinguished scientist and member of the editorial advisory board of Nutrition Today, and they have lived happily ever after! Congratulations, Richard and John!
Janet King Inducted Into Agricultural Research Service Science Hall of Fame
Janet King, PhD, RD, a former director of the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Western Human Nutrition Research Center at University of California, Davis, has been selected for the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Science Hall of Fame for her national and international leadership and achievements in human nutrition, including studies that have led to new guidelines for healthful weight gain during pregnancy and to new recommendations for daily intake of zinc. This is a rare honor given to only a few outstanding scientists every year.
Doctor King has expertly led many national and international nutrition policy committees, such as the advisory board that developed the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 2005, and has also had leadership roles in national or international committees, institutes, and boards, including the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (former chair) and the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization of the United Nations.
King came to ARS from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995, where she served as chair of the department of nutrition and where she had mentored more than 50 graduate and postgraduate students. During her tenure with ARS, King served as director of the Western Human Nutrition Research Center. She left ARS in 2003 to join the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (California). She holds professorial appointments at the University of California's Berkeley and Davis campuses.
The ARS Science Hall of Fame program, established in 1986, recognizes agency researchers for outstanding career achievements in agricultural sciences.
Leveille Receives Honorary Degree
Gilbert A. Leveille received an honorary doctorate degree during the spring commencement at Purdue University. He is distinguished in nutritional research and has laid the foundation for evaluating the safety and efficacy of foods as part of a healthy diet for an aging population. He currently serves as executive director of the Wrigley Science Institute and has also been associated with Cargill, McNeil, and many other companies after a distinguished academic career at Michigan State University. Congratulations, Gil!
Washington Power Couple: Wedding Bells for Borra and Hentges
The nutrition wedding of the year in Washington, District of Columbia, was the marriage of Susan Borra, president of the International Food Information Council and former president of the American Dietetic Association, and Eric Hentges, PhD. Doctor Hentges recently moved from the US Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, where he directed nutrition education efforts, to the International Life Sciences Institute, where he will serve as executive director. He is also well known to those in the nutrition community. Best wishes, Sue and Eric!
American Society of Nutrition's Medical Nutrition Council Announces Its New Name
The Medical Nutrition Council (MNC), a new arm of the new American Society of Nutrition (ASN), seeks to maintain a presence for clinical nutrition in ASN with prominent research, education, service, and outreach components. It also collaborates closely with the other councils and research interest groups within ASN to further common objectives. It changed its name from clinical because of its far-reaching agenda covering the breadth of clinical nutrition rather than nutrition solely as it relates to patient care. The leadership of MNC includes the following: Gordon Jensen, chair; David Heber, past chair; Kelly Tappenden, secretary/treasurer; George Blackburn, council; Caroline Apovian, council; Doug Seidner, council; Johanna Dwyer, council; Douglas Heimberger, council; Sachiko St. Jeor, council; and Tom Ziegler, chair-elect.
Kellogg NuCrew Program Announces First Grant Recipients
Four school districts recently received $2,000 grants from the Kellogg NuCrew Program to help offset the cost of implementing Nutrient Standard Menu Planning: Taunton (Massachusetts) public schools, South San Francisco (California) Unified, North Kingstown (Rhode Island) public schools, and Glendale (Arizona) Elementary School District.
Nutrient Standard Menu Planning provides improved nutrition for students, greater flexibility in menu planning, and long-term cost savings for the school district but can be costly and time consuming to implement. To ease the transition, Kellogg is offering grants through its NuCrew Program.
Kellogg will award the grants through March 2008. To obtain additional details about the grants and an application, visit http://www.kelloggsnucrew.com or call 877-511-5777.
Calendar
International Life Sciences Institute 2008 Annual Meeting
January 18-24, 2008
Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa, Rio Mar, Puerto Rico
For more information, log on to http://www.ilsi.org.
Clinical Nutrition Week
February 10-13, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
For more information, log on to http://www.nutritioncare.org/ClinicalNutritionWeek/index.aspx?id=502.
5th International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition
March 4-6, 2008
Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California
For more information, log on to http://www.vegetariannutrition.org.
Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Research Practicum
March 17-21, 2008
Bethesda, Maryland
For more information, contact [email protected].
Nutrition in High-Risk Pregnancy
March 19, 2008
Baltimore, Maryland
For more information, contact [email protected].
American College of Sports Medicine Health and Fitness Summit and Exposition
March 24-27, 2008
Long Beach, California
For more information, log on to http://www.acsm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Health_and_Fitness_Summit.
6th International Nutrition and Dietetics Congress
April 2-6, 2008
Antalya, Turkey
For more information, log on to http://www.bdk2008.org.
National Kidney Foundation 2008 Spring Clinical Meetings
April 2-6, 2008
Dallas, Texas
For more information, log on to http://www.kidney.org/news/meetings/clinical/index.cfm.
Experimental Biology
April 5-9, 2008
San Diego, California
For more information, log on to http://www.eb2008.org/.
5th World Conference on Breast Cancer
June 4-8, 2008
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
For more information, log on to http://www.wcbcf.ca.
Books and Media Received
The Vitamins. Gerald Coombs, PhD. September 2007. ISBN 978-0-12-183493-7. $74.00.