专业描述

With the M.S. in Nutritional Science, students must become engaged in a research project related to the nutritional sciences and gain a comprehensive understanding of nutritional science through coursework. The option emphasizes active participation in original, hypothesis-driven research of publishable quality. The Ph.D. in animal and nutritional sciences trains students to gain advanced knowledge and develop research expertise in such areas as the cellular and molecular biology of various nutrients, nutritional physiology and biochemistry, vascular biology and cardiovascular disease, immunology and genetics, obesity and diabetes, dairy nutrition, human nutrition, reproductive physiology and endocrinology.