Food insecurity affects up to 50% of college students, with African American and Hispanic/Latino students experiencing it 1.5 times more often than their non-Hispanic White and Asian counterparts. That puts them at greater risk for not just health problems, but also depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, stress and poorer academic performance. […]
An interdisciplinary team of USF researchers is competing in stage 1 of the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) for a potential award of up to $1 million to support implementation of “community-driven, research-based pilot projects that address mobility and resilience priorities.” The competition, hosted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in […]
USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Heewon Gray, associate professor specializing in nutrition, and COPH PhD alumnae Drs. Acadia Buro and Whitney Fung Uy attended the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior’s (SNEB) annual conference in Atlanta in July to share their research with a global group of attendees who […]
Carissa Brand was trained as a chef but pivoted into dietetics when she realized she wanted a career that combined her love of food with her passion for science. “Dietetics allows me to use my culinary skills and my science-based skills to create a one-of-a-kind treatment that people need,” said […]
Pandemic-related food insecurity and its impact on college students According to data collected in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic by researchers at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice, three in five college students experienced basic needs insecurity, with food insecurity affecting 44 percent of students at […]
Up to 40 percent of food that is produced in the U.S. goes to waste and it’s impacting our health, according to USF College of Public Health doctoral candidate Whitney Fung Uy. She’s the principal investigator of an interdisciplinary USF student effort to take food waste on campus and turn it into […]
Katie Jones, registered dietitian at USF’s Student Health Services and Center for Student Well-Being, was providing nutrition counseling for students when she noticed that some of her recommendations on how to maintain balanced eating habits were not feasible and too expensive for some students. Jones would often hear students say […]
There is a new face to those who lack access to affordable, nutritious food, according to USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Lauri Wright. “When people think of food insecure hunger, they think of the commercials they see on TV of starving children with skinny arms and distended bellies, but […]