Faculty

Assistant Professor: Exercise metabolism; redox signaling in health and disease; vascular influence on diet and exercise

Professor: Obesity and body weight regulation; behavioral and metabolic aspects; diet and cardiovascular diseases; dietary intake assessment; water and beverage intake and health

Professor: Etiology, prevention, and treatment of cardiometabolic dysfunction in aging and obesity

Assistant Professor: Food choice and food reward; neuroscience and metabolism

Assistant Professor: How molecular mechanisms responsible for monitoring cellular energetics change with age and their relationship to the development of age-related disease

Associate Professor: Molecular regulation of body weight, exercise, fertility, and puberty; prader-willi syndrome; phylogenetic analysis; nutraceutical functional foods; Pedagogy research

Professor, Assistant Department Head, and Director of the Virginia Tech Metabolism Core: Role of exercise in the treatment of neuromuscular disease

Associate Professor: Yoga as an affordable, accessible public health practice; dissemination and implementation science; group dynamics for long-term health behaviors

Associate Professor and Director of the Dietary Assessment Laboratory: Dietary intake and health; dietary assessment methodology; non-nutritive sweeteners; evaluation of nutrition intervention programs

Associate Professor: Effects of functional food and supplements on chronic disease; effects of integrative health on health

Associate Professor: U.S. and global food and nutrition policy; public health; governance for sustainable diets and food systems; food and beverage marketing

Professor, Director of the Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics (MSND) Program, and Director of the Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism (NEM) Lab: How nutrition and exercise influence health and physical performance; special interest in energy, vitamin D and iodine metabolism

Professor: Identification of bioactive compounds for preventing obesity and diabetes and promoting metabolic health; discovery of phytochemicals to delay aging

Assistant Professor: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; Interorgan cross-talk, Cardiometabolic links; focuses on mitochondrial, cGMP-protein kinase G signaling

Research Assistant Professor and Assistant Director and Program Manager for Research and Evaluation for the Virginia Cooperative Extension Family Nutrition Program (EFNEP and SNAP-Ed): Food Access; food and nutrition security; public health nutrition; program evaluation; health disparities

Assistant Professor: Lipid metabolism with a focus on the relationship between lipid metabolism and disease development and how these diseases impact healthspan

Assistant Professor and Senior Extension Specialist: Community based participatory methods for evaluation of community health knowledge, resources, and needs; development, dissemination and implementation of lifestyle management programs

Professor and Principal Scientist of Integrated Life Sciences Building: Ovarian cancer prevention; mitochondrial plasticity of ovarian cancer aggregates during metastasis; obesity and cancer

Professor, Extension Specialist, and Director of the Virginia Family Nutrition Program: Effectiveness of food and nutrition programs and initiatives to promote nutrition security; examination of contributors to food and nutrition security

Assistant Professor: How stressful situations induce maladaptive behaviors and brain circuit dysfunctions

Assistant Professor: Type 2 diabetes management; obesity; health behavior; tobacco use; decision-making; behavioral economics

Department Head and Professor: Nutrition and exercise in the prevention of obesity and diabetes; sports nutrition

Assistant Professor: Energy metabolism and mitochondrial bioenergetics in the healthy and diseased hearts (i.e., heart failure and Type 2 diabetes); metabolomics-based identification of biomarker for heart failure therapy

Professor: Muscle physiology and biochemistry; human performance; athlete monitoring; sports science

Collegiate Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director: Body composition; obesity; and health/wellness

Senior Instructor and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics: Management and communications in nutrition and dietetics; training future registered dietitian nutritionists

Senior Instructor and Undergraduate Program Director: Undergraduate education in health sciences; injury prevention and treatment; connections between human, animal, and environmental health

Senior Instructor and Director of the HNFE Foods Teaching Laboratories: Nutrition across the life span; food selection and preparation to promote human health and planetary sustainability; food cultures and dietary behaviors

Instructor and Program Director of the Virginia Tech Internship in Nutrition and Dietetics: Dietetics education, medical nutrition therapy, leadership in dietetics

Assistant Director for Business Operations: Leads HNFE in strategic consultation, ensuring efficient operations, and compliance with Virginia Tech, CALS, and departmental policies in finance and operations

Academic Advisor: Provides academic advising to HNFE undergraduate students pursuing the Exercise & Health Science major

Undergraduate Advising Director: Undergraduate academic advising for course selection and degree focus, internships, study abroad, career opportunities, and support services offered through the university

IT Manager and Research Engineer: HNFE IT support; development and maintenance of physical activity subcore laboratory equipment in ILSB; operator and engineer of whole room calorimeters FBRI at VTC

Affiliate Professor: Food demand, health outcomes, econometrics, and methodology

Adjunct Instructor: Teaching, motivating and mentoring the next generation of preprofessional students

Adjunct Instructor: Sports nutrition

Adjunct Professor: Culinary nutrition and risk management

Adjunct Professor and Associate Athletics Director for Sports Medicine for Virginia Tech Athletics: Athletic training; sports medicine; coaching youth sports

Affiliate Faculty and Research Scientist at Center for Nutrition and Health Impact: Policy, systems, and environmental change; dissemination and implementation science; health equity; built environment

Senior Dean for Student Affairs and Professor of Medicine and Family & Community Medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine: Memory disorders; caregiver issues; effects of lifestyle on chronic illnesses in seniors

Adjunct Instructor

Adjunct Instructor and OMALS Course Instructor: Leadership, specifically in the area of school designs and problem solving

Instructor and Associate Director of Sports Nutrition: Sports nutrition; performance nutrition

Adjunct Instructor: Qualitative research approaches including ethnography and phenomenology; participatory research approaches; dissemination and implementation science; health behaviors for human flourishing; coaching; yoga

Associate Professor Emerita

Associate Professor Emeritus

Professor Emerita and Extension Specialist

Professor Emeritus

Professor and Department Head (2008-2013)

HNFE Professor and Dean Emerita of College of Human Resources and Education

Project Director of Family Nutrition Program

Professor Emerita and Associate Department Head

Professor and Dean Emeritus of College of Human Resources and HNFE Department Head (1965-1973)

Professor Emerita and Department Head (1988-98)