Conference engages industry leaders, policymakers, academics, investors, and entrepreneurs in discussions of revolutions in agricultural and food science.
Professor Anders Näär named 2023 Spark Award recipient
Näär joins PMB professor Ben Williams and other UC Berkeley faculty as recipients of funding, resources, and entrepreneurial mentorship.
Professor Joni Nikkanen joins Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Join us in welcoming Nikkanen and other incoming faculty across Rausser College.
Congratulations Award Winners
Congratulations to all of the graduate students in the Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology Department that recently won awards. An awards ceremony was held in May to honor the recipients.
Dietetics student Kate Sullivan and team win first place in Collider Cup
Sullivan and the team won first prize for their plant-based crab alternative at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology's annual competitive venture showcase.
Course Highlight: Nutrition in the Community
Students in last fall’s NST 166 course present their campaigns for positive health changes around the UC Berkeley campus.
Dan Nomura receives grant from Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
The ASPIRE award will support Nomura’s continued research on targeting the “undruggable” in cancer.
Professor David Moore named AAAS fellow
Moore joins ESPM professors Whendee Silver and Neil Tsutsui as newly elected American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows, one of the most distinctive honors within the scientific community.
Farmworkers at risk for obesity, high blood pressure, say UC researchers
Led by Susana Matias, the study examines the health of the people who help plant, nurture and harvest food in California.
Teaching Kitchen course helps improve college students’ food security
The Personal Food Security and Wellness course was recently highlighted on the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Food Blog.
Daniel Nomura recognized by National Cancer Institute
The NST professor will be named a 2022 Outstanding Investigator for advancing cancer druggability.
BAMM 2022 Poster Prize Winners
Congratulations to Bay Area Metabolism Meeting (BAMM) 2022 poster prize winners Wei Wei (graduate student, PI Jon Long, Stanford University) and Lei Xu (postdoc, PI Anders Nää
Ten UC Berkeley courses revamped to incorporate inclusive and anti-racist approaches
NUSCTX 166: Nutrition in the Community and NUSCTX 104AC: Food, Culture, and the Environment were among the courses with new course material and structure.
New student organization for Queer graduate students
Rausser College graduate students have formed a new group to foster community for peers that identify as Queer or LGBTQ+
New inhaled COVID-19 therapeutic blocks viral replication in the lungs
Research from the lab of Metabolic Biology Professor Anders Näär could one day make treating SARS-CoV-2 infections as easy as using a nasal spray for allergies.
College of Natural Resources launches Master of Nutritional Science and Dietetics program
The Daily Californian featured the new program for aspiring dietitians, which opens for enrollment in September.
UC Berkeley and Novartis extend Alliance to tackle “undruggable” disease targets
The research collaboration aims to unlock intractable drug targets, discover new therapeutic modalities, and accelerate discovery of novel medicines.
Congratulations Award Winners
Congratulations to all of the graduate students in the Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology Department that recently won awards. An awards ceremony was held in May to honor the recipients.
Introducing the Master of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics program
The new graduate program will prepare students for careers as dietitians.
Congratulations Graduates
Congratulations to the recent graduates. As 2022 was the first in-person, campuswide ceremony in three years, graduates from previous years also particiated in commencement.