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    3202 Meyer Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 754-7684
    Fax: (530) 752-8966
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Nutritional Biology

Application Deadline

  • ADMISSION
  • Priority: Jan. 15
  • General: Mar. 15
  • Final: May 31

  • FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Jan. 15

Degrees Offered

  • M.S. Plan I
  • M.S. Plan II by exception only
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores
  • Supplemental application

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

The great diversity of research interests represented by the faculty members allows students to choose from a wide variety of themes: nutritional biochemistry, animal nutrition, nutrition and development, nutrient bioavailability, human/clinical nutrition, nutrition and behavior, nutritional energetics, community nutrition, maternal and child nutrition, nutrition and endocrinology, international nutrition, obesity/body composition, physiology of digestion, nutrition and chronic disease, culture and nutrition, nutrition and gene expression, nutrition and aging, food preferences, nutrition and immunity, diet and exercise, dietary assessment, protein and lipid metabolism, food intake regulation, and nutrition education.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Nutritional Biology Web site.

Contacts

Program Chair
M.R.C. Greenwood Nutrition (530) 754-4365
Academic Advisers
Chris C Calvert Animal Science 9/1/07 - 8/31/09 (530) 752-1269
Andrew J Clifford Nutrition 9/1/07 - 8/31/09 (530) 752-3376
Andrea J Fascetti Vm Molecular Bio Sciences 10/1/07 - 8/31/09 (530) 754-6974
Silas S Hung Animal Science 9/1/07 - 8/31/09 (530) 752-3580
Robert B Rucker Nutrition 9/1/05 - 8/31/07 (530) 752-2089
Francene M Steinberg Nutrition 9/1/07 - 8/31/09 (530) 752-0160
Marta D Van Loan Nutrition 10/1/07 - 8/31/09 (530) 752-4160
Sheri A Zidenberg-Cherr Nutrition 9/1/07 - 8/31/09 (530) 752-3817
Susan Zunino Nutrition 9/1/06 - 8/31/08 (530) 752-5156
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Terry Morales Nutritional Biology 530-754-7684
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Angela Sharma Office of Graduate Studies (530) 752-2772