Nutritional Sciences
Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy
For More Information
Campus address: T. S. Painter Hall (PAI) 4.36B, phone (512) 471-0337, fax (512) 471-5844; campus mail code: A2703
Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, 1 University Station A2703, Austin TX 78712
E-mail: hegrad@uts.cc.utexas.edu
URL: http://www.he.utexas.edu/ntr/graduate-program
Facilities for Graduate Work
Facilities for research and graduate instruction in nutritional sciences include modern laboratories for biochemical, immunological, and cellular/molecular biological techniques such as cell and tissue culture, immunological assays, cytokine bioassays, radioisotope analyses, stable isotope analyses, and protein structure and function determination. Facilities are also available for analysis of vitamins, amino acids, minerals, lipids, carbohydrates, and other substances of nutritional and physiological importance. Local, state, and federal health, child-care, and geriatrics programs provide research and clinical settings. Other resources are the Life Science Library, the Mallet Chemistry Library, the Perry-Castañeda Library, the Animal Resources Center, and Information Technology Services. Graduate students have access to the Student Microcomputer Facility and to statistical applications maintained by the Department of Nutritional Sciences.
Programs of Study
The graduate program has biochemical, molecular-biological, and clinical components and includes study in the following areas: molecular and cellular aspects of nutrient function; molecular and cellular approaches to the study of nutrition and disease; nutritional biochemistry; behavioral and child nutrition; nutrient requirements and intakes and health assessment; nutrition and cancer, obesity, aging, and immunity; and nutrition education.
The master’s degree program is designed to prepare individuals for teaching in community colleges; administration in public health programs; technical positions at food, pharmaceutical, and chemical laboratories; and, for those who are registered dietitians, advanced practitioner and teaching positions in clinical dietetics. Students may also apply to the Coordinated Program in Dietetics, which provides courses and experience that will meet the requirements for registration eligibility of the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association.
The doctoral degree program is designed to prepare students for research, teaching, and administrative positions in colleges, universities, government, and industry. Competence in related fields is emphasized, and supporting work is selected from areas such as biochemistry, biology, molecular biology, computer science, genetics, communication, geriatrics, immunology, physiology, kinesiology, psychology, or health promotion.
Graduate Studies Committee
The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.
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Margaret E Briley Jaimie N Davis Linda A Degraffenried John Digiovanni Richard H Finnell Michele Forman |
Jeanne H Freeland-Graves Stephen D Hursting Christopher A Jolly Kimberly Kline Bob G Sanders |