Keeping Up with Nutritional Sciences

    Archived posts from Nutritional Sciences

    • Spring 2026 Nutrition and Metabolism Seminar Series

      Thursdays – 11:00 a.m. – Nutritional Sciences Room 290 Date Speaker Title January 22 Hoang BuiUW-MadisonN&M Exit Seminar Dissecting the Heterogeneity of White and Brown Adipocyte Precursors January 29 Arion […]

    • Dietetics Supervised Practice Webinar

      New Dietetics Application Process for ACEND® Supervised Practice Programs (DIs, CPs, GPs) All ACEND accredited supervised practice programs must participate in the Dietetic Inclusive Centralized Application Service (DICAS). This portal […]

    • Impact of Malnutrition on Kidney Transplant Recipient Outcomes:UW Department of Medicine Research Day

      Congratulations to Katrina Kennedy, MS, RDN, and Heather Lorden, MS, RDN, both MS Clinical Nutrition alumni, and their colleague Jessa Engelken, MPH, RDN. Their latest publication in Transplantation Direct investigates the […]

    • The New Food Label

      Have you ever looked at a nutrition label and felt like you were reading a foreign language? Chances are you’re not the only one who has trouble understanding what these […]

    • Welcome Back, Students!

      A welcome video from Dr. Denise Ney, of the Department of Nutritional Sciences.

    • The U.S. Dietary Guidelines

      The US Dietary Guidelines (DGs) were first developed in 1980, and must be updated every 5 years – led by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services (USDA […]

    • August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month!

      A recent graduate of the department, Elizabeth Chitwood, wrote this blog for the Wisconsin Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (WAND).  Click here to see her original blog on the WAND […]

    • Simcox Named BIRCWH Scholar

      Biochemistry Assistant Professor Judith Simcox has been named a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Scholar at UW-Madison. https://biochem.wisc.edu/news/2020/news-simcoxs-bircwh-award-2020-06-05