College of Public Health Nutrition Kitchen
The Department of Nutrition and Food Studies' new facilities in Peterson Hall include a state of the art 25 student capacity nutrition teaching kitchen. The kitchen is furnished with multiple food preparation stations allowing students to participate in cooking and other food preparation activities. Each station is equipped with stovetops, counter space, refrigeration, sinks, ovens, and tablets for viewing demonstrations and accessing the internet. The kitchen also provides a large demonstration platform with video recording capability allowing replay for each teaching kitchen station.
View a 3D video of the nutrition kitchen here.
Human Nutrition Assessment Lab
The Human Nutrition Assessment Lab was established in 2014 to create a teaching environment and to serve as a resource for clinical research investigations dedicated to human nutrition experimentation. The lab provides an active learning and research environment for students, faculty, and professionals to develop, evaluate and utilize both traditional and cutting-edge nutritional assessment tools among various populations at the local, state, national and international levels.
The lab offers anthropometric, biochemical, and dietary tools to enable complete nutritional analysis. Capabilities include a dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) densitometer (Horizon A, Hologic) and bioelectric impedance analysis monitor (SC-331S, Tanita), food models (Nasco) and dietary analysis software (Nutritionist Pro, Axxya Systems) as well as a metabolic cart (QuarkRMR, Cosmed) for resting energy expenditure using indirect calorimetry and technical resources for biochemistry analysis. Space is also available for obtaining ethical consent and for conducting surveys and counselling sessions.
Learn more about the lab (pdf).
