Nutrition Results
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Walking Beans, Hair, and Reproductive Samples: From Pesticides to Public Health
John Meeker
As a teenager growing up in rural Iowa, John Meeker spent countless hours in the corn and soybean fields doing farm work to make money. “We would often be out ‘walking beans,’ where you go row by row through soy fields to kill weeds,” he says. He and his friends would receive an unmarked bottle of liquid and would either walk or ride a tractor as they sprayed. Read more
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Navy Veteran Pursues Career in Nutritional Sciences
Isa Kujawski
After 9 years of active duty in the US military, Isa Kujawski switched gears to pursue her passion for health and wellness and explore the connections between nutrition and mental health. Read more
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Fueling Athletes and Fighting Obesity
Cody Cousineau
In this edition of Field Notes, Nutritional Sciences student Cody Cousineau details his summer 2017 internship with the Eastern Michigan University Athletic Department, along with how his work in the lab deepens his understanding of nutrition and health. Read more
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Professor's Path to Environmental Epigenetics--and How It Helped Shape the Field
Dana Dolinoy
Dana Dolinoy’s work has been instrumental to putting the field of environmental epigenetics on the map. “It was a combination of timing and luck—that I started grad school at the time [the agouti] mice were becoming famous, and I got to start on this path,” she says. Read more
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My Journey to Michigan Public Health
Aya Takai
“Overanalysis leads to paralysis!” my coached yelled from the opposite end of the rink, over my program music blaring from the speakers. Read more
