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Alumni Features Nutrition

Nutrition and health sciences program helps alum get into medical school

Trent Henderson, ’22, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and health sciences this spring and started medical school at Des Moines University in Iowa this fall.

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Community Engagement Nutrition

FoodCorps fosters culture of health in Klamath County schools

FoodCorps is a nonprofit organization that connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy by placing motivated leaders in limited-resource communities for a year of public service.

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Alumni Nutrition

A different set of tools

Oregon State nutrition program helps round out alumna Melanie Jackson’s medical practice

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Community Engagement Faculty and Staff Features News

Best of the best: Family and Community Health faculty earn national recognition

Out of 632 awards applications from 38 states, the team took home three national first-place awards and several top recognitions from the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

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Community Engagement Features Nutrition Public Health

Former OSU Women’s Basketball player re-connects with the community to serve up meals to Oregon’s frontline workers

Teaming up with a CPHHS professor, Mikayla Pivec, ’20 created Selfless Servings to deliver meals to Oregon’s frontline workers throughout the pandemic.

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Community Engagement Features Public Health

Grad student saw Latinx community struggling, so she leaped into action, addressing food insecurity and removing barriers to health

Doctoral student Nancy Vargas saw Oregon’s Latinx communities struggling with food insecurity, so she stepped up to help get them the resources they needed.