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The Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences (NFES) has approximately 1500 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled each semester who are served by sixteen outstanding teaching and research faculty who help create a challenging academic environment. Over half (52%) of lower division students in the College of Human Sciences have expressed the desire to pursue one of the majors offered by NFES. In addition, NFES has the largest enrollment of pre-med students at FSU.
The Department’s Undergraduate Programs offer two Bachelor of Science degrees, Food and Nutrition Sciences and Human Sciences. There are two majors under Food and Nutrition, Dietetics and Food and Nutrition Science. Human Science students major and earn a degree in Exercise Science or Athletic Training.
The Graduate Program in the Department provides students the opportunity
to obtain both Masters of Science (M.S.)
and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
degrees. There are a total of four graduate programs available to students desiring to study an area in more detail and each is individually tailored to meet the career aspirations of each student.
An excellent teaching and research faculty provide students with a challenging academic environment. Faculty Pages
The Department’s resources include leading-edge technology for each program.
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Biomechanics Laboratory
- is designed to investigate the mechanics of locomotion using video analysis and custom designed force sensors. A main component of work completed in the lab involves the design and construction of specialized force transducers and the development of novel analytic strategies related to the energy cost of movement.
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Biomedical Research
Facility - is the center for research in Nutritional Neuroscience at FSU. Departmental faculty members with laboratories in this facility conduct research on the role of nutrients in the brain that control obesity, blood pressure, neuronal survival, and gene expression. Some current efforts focus on the cellular and molecular roles of nutrients in the brain that control obesity, blood pressure, neuronal survival, and gene expression.
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Exercise Physiology
Laboratories - are for studying human performance, exercise metabolism, cardiovascular and muscle physiology. The two Exercise Physiology Laboratories are equipped for teaching and research related to the human response to exercise. The Research Lab contains computerized systems for the measurement of oxygen uptake, blood lactate and blood gas analyzers, an environmental chamber and a DEXA unit, in addition to various equipment necessary for biochemical assessments.
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Motor Skills Learning
Laboratory - contains leading-edge facilities for single or multiple subject testing, large applied motor skill testing for gait and balance disturbances, chronic motor dysfunction, and kinematic analysis. The laboratory is equipped with an electronics workshop and 18 pentium class computers. The entire laboratory is networked via its own server so that across platform communication is facilitated. Undergraduate instructional labs are located in a separate facility.
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Nutrition and Food
Instrument Laboratory - provides a setting for chemical, analytical, and microbiology testing and includes new and updated equipment. The laboratory complex also features a new Cold Lab that facilitates research requiring constant low temperatures.
In addition, the University has a number of core laboratory facilities that are used by faculty and graduate students including a Peptide Synthesis and Sequencing Facility, DNA Synthesis and Sequencing Labs, Hybridoma Lab, Cell and Tissue Culture Facilities, and Laboratory Animal Facilities
Student organization
supplement classroom learning by providing opportunities to develop leadership skills in professional settings. NFES students have the opportunity to join the Student Dietetic Association and the Human Sciences Allied Health Coalition.
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