In Field Trips in Food: Immigrant New York, students tour and taste the city’s ethnic culture and cuisine. We meet outside Nathan’s Famous on Surf Avenue in Brooklyn. It’s a crisp October Day, and, in Jennifer Berg’s Field Trips in Food: Immigrant New York, we are taking an ethnographic and historical walking tour of Coney Island […]
Category: nutrition
Fighting with Senator Duckworth for High Quality, Affordable Care: An Interview with Pilar Mendez (BS ’15)
Pilar Mendez (BS ’15) is a second year law student at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She earned her undergraduate degree at NYU Steinhardt in public health, and then an MPH in health policy at George Washington University in 2017. In Washington she worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of […]
On Nutrition and Healing: Questions for NYU Langone Health Dietitian Andy Chu (MA ’10)
For the past ten years, Andy Chu (MS ‘10) a graduate of Steinhardt’s Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, has worked as a registered dietitian at NYU Langone Health in the critical care center and bone marrow transplant unit. In addition to providing world-class patient care, he writes and speaks on various nutrition topics. We spoke to […]
A Collaboration Between NYU Steinhardt and the College of Dentistry Brings Nutrition Education to Patient Care
Research shows a clear link between nutrition and oral health. Food plays a key role in tooth decay and gum disease, as well as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, which also have important implications for oral health. Dentists have frequent contact with patients. In fact, people see dentists more often than any other health professional, […]
Four Steinhardt Students Win Fulbright Grants
Four Steinhardt Students are among twenty-one New York University students and recent alumni who have been selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2018-19. Under this U.S. Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs program, recipients teach or conduct research abroad during the upcoming academic year. This year’s NYU Steinhardt Fulbright awardees are: Undergraduate Recipients […]
NYU Aging Incubator Names Steinhardt Students Winners of 1st Annual Innovators in Aging Award
The NYU Aging Incubator has announced the winning team for the 1st Annual Innovators in Aging Award. The Innovators in Aging Award, launched in September 2017, invited NYU students to submit ideas for tools or resources that would significantly enhance the lives of older adults. The Aging Incubator received 27 submissions from NYU undergraduate and […]
Inside NYU Steinhardt: A J-Term Course for Nutrition and Communicative Sciences and Disorders Students
“Interdisciplinary Case-Based Management of Dysphagia,” offered during NYU’s J-Term, was an opportunity for communicative sciences and disorders graduate students to team up with their peers in nutrition and dietetics to explore how to feed and care for people with difficulty swallowing—a problem that in the United States affects about 22% of adults over 50. Each small group […]
The NYU Urban Farm Lab is Back: Q&A with Melissa Metrick
Melissa Metrick (MA ‘14) spends her days in New York City gardening. (Yes, you read that right — gardening.) As the instructor for Steinhardt’s Introduction to Urban Agriculture class, which draws students from across NYU, Metrick operates the newly reinstated NYU Urban Farm Lab located on Houston Street. The space serves as both a teaching […]
NYU Class Collaborates with Cooper Hewitt to Increase Accessibility
Art, accessibility, and technology converged this spring in the Cooper Hewitt Co-Lab, an interdisciplinary course through the NYU Ability Project focused on reimagining the collection of the Smithsonian’s design museum for museumgoers with disabilities. Luke DuBois, co-director of the Ability Project and associate professor of Integrated Digital Media at Tandon, learned from Caroline Baumann, director […]
Merging Health and Technology: Q&A with Claire Kearney-Volpe
Claire Kearney-Volpe has the honor of being the first doctoral student in NYU Steinhardt’s new rehabilitation sciences program, an interdisciplinary degree encompassing Steinhardt’s health and therapeutic professions. But she’s no stranger to NYU – Kearney-Volpe earned her master’s from NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in 2015, where she focused on health promotion and participatory […]
