Announcements

Online Nutrition Masters Program Partners with Morrison Healthcare for Registered Dietitian Career Track

Career-minded students seeking a track to a lucrative career as a Registered Dietitian now have access to a collaboration between two programs to gain both...

Nutrition students on dietetics rotation

Announcements

Newly Renamed School of Health and Human Sciences Looks to its Future

What was the School of Human Ecology has a new name and new leadership.

Research

Those Toddler Foods on Grocery Shelves? More than 80% Are Ultraprocessed

UT nutritional scientists found that nearly half of the foods exceeded recommended sugar, sodium, fat or calories.

Research

Teens who Start the Day with Breakfast, Especially Foods with Protein, Eat Better Overall

Teens who ate breakfast took in more nutrients and consumed less daily fat and sugar than those who skipped it.

Dell Medical School

UT Austin Study Finds Diet Alters Breast Milk Composition

UT nutritional scientists found even small shifts towards more ultraprocessed foods can quickly alter breast milk.

UT News

4 Tons of Spinach, 3 Professors and 1 Life-Changing Discovery

It was 84 years ago this week that UT researchers isolated and named folic acid.

Research

Digital platform supports personalized diet goals in primary care for diabetes

A new study evaluates Nutri, a clinical decision support tool for brief diet counseling in safety-net clinics, created by UT researchers.

Features

How a Nutrition Class Became One of UT’s Most Popular

The online, synchronous Fundamentals of Nutrition course proves to be as worthwhile as it is engaging for UT undergraduates across all majors and rank years.

Announcements

Texas Science Festival-Goers to Enjoy Fusion of Curiosity and Discovery

The University of Texas at Austin will host the science-themed, STEAM-inspired festival from Feb. 21-March 6.

Dell Medical School Mission Critical

New Inroads on a Quiet and Deadly Cancer

A nutritional sciences and Dell Med faculty research collaboration uses metabolism to address pancreatic cancer.