Congratulations to ENS Administrative Support Coordinator Cathy Chavez for winning the Presidential Staff Excellence Award for Service to the University. She was honored at the University House on August 12th. During the pandemic, she assisted faculty members by providing instructions for their virtual transition. She helped reestablish labs and identify alternative lab spaces for faculty […]

Congratulations to Drs. Shirin Hooshmand and Mark Kern for being awarded a grant from the Almond Board of California. For their research entitled: Exploring the Role of Almonds in Enhancing Immune Strength. Their work will study the effects of daily almond consumption on biochemical and physiological indicators of immune health to help better understand infections […]

We congratulate Dr. Surabhi Bhutani for being awarded a University Grants Program (UGP) grant entitled “Diurnal modulation in olfactory perception, meal timing, and food intake.” Dr. Bhutani and the team will examine whether chronotype (morning type vs evening type) affects odor perception through the waking hours in healthy adults. They will also test if the […]

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda McClain for being awarded a grant from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine titled “The role of neighborhood and household food environments and food shopping behaviors in shaping diet quality and glucose metabolism among Hispanic/Latino youth and their caregivers participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”