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Welcome to the Division of Nutritional Sciences

The Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) at Cornell University is among the largest nutritional academic units in the United States devoted to human nutrition. The DNS missions and scholarly activities integrate knowledge from the physical, biological and social sciences in the four focus areas of molecular, human, international and community nutrition.

 
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Seminar in Nutritional Sciences (NS 7030)
05/15/2013, 10:30am
Using programme theory to assess the feasibility of delivering micronutrient Sprinkles through...
Speaker: Rukundo Kambarami

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WORLD-CLASS FACULTY


Tom Brenna

Professor Tom Brenna's research couples nutrition and chemistry in a broadly interdisciplinary program. His laboratory is especially concerned with requirements for polyunsaturated and branched chain fatty acids in the perinatal period, development of mass spectrometry for biomedical applications, and development of high precision isotope ratio mass spectrometry for anti-doping applications. Bio