Liangli (Lucy) Yu, Ph.D. Professor and Chair (Acting), Department of Nutrition and Food Science Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas:nutraceuticals and functional foods, food chemistry and enzymology, food and nutraceutical analysis, developing value-added utilization of agricultural products, by-products, and by-products from food processing
Primary courses taught: NFSC 112-Food: Science and Technology, NFSC 423-Food Chemistry Laboratory, NFSC 678G-Nutraceutical and Nutritional Chemistry
Email: lyu5@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0761, (301) 405-0773
Richard A. Ahrens, Ph.D. R.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: carbohydrates and physical activity, international nutrition, history of nutrition
Email: dicka@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4347
Robert L. Buchanan, Ph.D. Professor, Director of Center for Food Safety and Security Systems Curriculum Vitae: Research Areas: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems
Email: rbuchanan@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1174
Thomas W. Castonguay, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the Graduate School Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: dietary preferences, feeding patterns, glucoregulation, and neuroscience and nutrition
Primary courses taught: NFSC 100-Elements of Nutrition, NFSC 450-Food and Nutrient Analysis, NFSC 630-Nutritional Aspects of Energy Balance, NFSC 698-Colloquium
Email: twc@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4503
Wen-Hsing Cheng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: molecular mechanisms of DNA damage response associated with aging and cancer, selenium regulation on genomic stability
Email: whcheng@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2940
Robert T. Jackson, Ph.D., R.D. Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: nutritional anemias, international nutrition, diet and evolution, nutritional status during pregnancy
Primary courses taught: NFSC 100-Elements of Nutrition, NFSC 315-Nutrition During the Lifecycle, NFSC 425-International Nutrition and selected graduate courses
Email: bojack@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4533
Mark Kantor, Ph.D. (Retired)
Associate Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: food safety, diet and chronic disease
Email: mkantor@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1018
Seong-Ho Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Curriculum Vitae
Research areas: nutritional biochemistry and molecular cancer research
Email: slee2000@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4532
David K.Y. Lei, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Curriculum Vitae
Research areas: nutrient control of gene expression, trace mineral metabolism
Primary courses taught: NFSC 440-Advanced Human Nutrition
Email: dlei@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2143
Y. Martin Lo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Food Bioprocess Engineering, Extension Specialist of Food Processing Safety, Nutrition and Food Science, Department of Nutrition and Food Science,and Director, Graduate Program in Food Science
Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: bioprocessing technologies for value-added food products
Primary course taught: NFSC 421-Principles of Food Processing, NFSC 112-Food: Science and Technology
Email: ymlo@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4509
Phyllis McShane, M.S., R.D., L.D.
Dietetic Internship Director
Curriculum Vitae:
Email: pmcshane@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2139
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Mira Mehta, Ph.D. EFNEP Leader, Department of Nutrition and Food Science Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: food security, malnutrition, community nutrition, international nutrition
Email: mmehta@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1006
Jianghong Meng, Ph.D., DVM, MPVM Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, and Director, Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: foodborne bacterial pathogens: mechanisms of pathogenicity, diagnostic methods for pathogen detection
Primary courses taught: NFSC 434-Food Microbiology Laboratory, NFSC 631-Advanced Food Microbiology, NFSC 112-Food: Science and Technology
Email: jmeng@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1399
Phylis B. Moser-Veillon, Ph.D., R.D.
Professor Emerita, Deparment of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: trace mineral metabolism during lactation and pregnancy
Email: pmv@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4502
Mickey Parish, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Email: mparish@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0773
Abani K. Pradhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science & Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: food safety risk analysis, quantitative risk assessment, food safety engineering, predictive microbiology and molecular epidemiology
Email: akp@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4502
Nadine Sahyoun, Ph.D., R.D. Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: nutritional epidemiology
Primary courses taught: NFSC 470-Community Nutrition
Email: nsahyoun@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8774
Donald V. Schlimme, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: food freezing technology, statistical process control, modified atmosphere packaging
Email: dschlimm@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4347
Margaret Udahogora
Dietetic Program Director, Lecturer,
Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Curriculum Vitae:
Primary courses taught: NFSC 380-Methods of Nutritional Assessment, NFSC350- Food Service Operations
Email: mudahogo@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1018
Robert C Wiley, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Qin Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Curriculum Vitae:
Research Areas: design, characterization, and evaluation of biological polymers in food; developing micro- and nano- structures from food biopolymers (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids) for encapsulation and controlled release of bioactive compounds, and for tissue scaffold toward biomaterial innovation
Email: wangqin@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8421
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