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Wellness Workshop Registration
On January 18 we invite you to attend our Wellness Workshop at High Performance Training in Kannapolis. At 6 PM Sondra Merrill, HPT owner and fitness instructor, and Faustina Jeyaraj, NRI graduate research assistant will come together to share important nutrition and...
Appetite for Life: Nutrition by Design Survey
NRI Postdoctoral Research Associate Promoted to Assistant Professor of Nutrition
The UNC Nutrition Research Institute is pleased to welcome Nipun Saini, PhD, to its faculty. Previously, Saini worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Smith Lab. Saini worked in the Smith Lab for six years, helping the team advance in understanding the...
Curiosity. Intellect. Altruism.
The future of personalized nutrition is in its emerging thinkers. At the NRI our postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students apply these qualities of curiosity, intellect and altruism to their quests to improve the health of humanity. Your gift to the Nutrition...
Nutrition by Design: Exploring 3D Printing in Cognitive Development
Nutrition by Design Registration
Neuroscientists Reveal the Snacks They Eat to Boost Memory
Carol Cheatham, PhD is an associate professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute. The Cheatham Lab studies the importance of nutrients for the development of memory and attention abilities. This article originally appeared on...
Why pregnancy nutrition isn’t one-size-fits-all
Ask the Expert: A Q&A Series on Breast Cancer with Stephen Hursting, PhD and Evan Paules, PhD
On October 25, 97 participants joined us by Zoom for our Appetite for Life seminar on Nutrition and Cancer. NRI Director, Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH and Evan Paules, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in Hursting’s lab, presented their research on triple-negative...