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HNFE’s Student Bowl team members Noah Stallard, Pierre-Anne Laird, and Sabina Holz won the SEACSM Student Bowl and will represent the organization at the ACSM Annual Meeting and World Congress in San Diego May 31 through June 4.

HNFE’s Student Bowl team members Noah Stallard, Pierre-Anne Laird, and Sabina Holz won the SEACSM Student Bowl and will represent the organization at the ACSM Annual Meeting and World Congress in San Diego May 31 through June 4.
At the regional SEACSM conference last February, HNFE team members Noah Stallard, Pierre-Anne Laird, and Sabina Holz won the Student Bowl.

HNFE occupies space in Wallace Hall, War Memorial Hall, the Integrated Life Sciences Building (located in the Corporate Research Center), and at VT Riverside (Roanoke, Virginia).

Our Vision: To advance human health and well-being.

Our Mission: To translate, teach, and apply nutrition and exercise
sciences to promote human health.

Our Goals:

To contribute significantly to scientific progress:

  • Molecular and clinical advances leading to prevention and improved treatment of obesity and chronic diseases.
  • Behavioral discoveries that lead to effective intervention programs for youth and adults.
  • Interdisciplinary research teams who speed the translation of scientific discoveries to effective therapeutic and public health interventions that benefit Virginians and the nation.

To provide exceptional training and programs for our students:

  • Prepare future professionals who are knowledgeable and committed to life-long learning.
  • Produce graduates who are ethical, culturally sensitive, and able to work collaboratively and independently.
  • Use rigorous scientific inquiry to create new training programs for undergraduate and graduate students.

To foster innovation across all three Virginia Tech missions in teaching, research, and Extension:

  • Increase support for programs that promote sustainability and community viability and encourage student participation in research and extension.
  • Design, develop, and deliver extension programs through a participatory and shared effort between our research and teaching communities.
  • Utilize our teaching and research expertise to improve the health of vulnerable and under-served populations.