CHS News

Athletic Training Program Gains 10-Year-Long Re-Accreditation

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:27:33 +0100

Trivino Elected to Board of Directors

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:46:35 +0100

Julian Trivino of Florida State University was elected to the National Kappa Omicron Nu Board of Directors at the Kappa Omicron Nu Leadership Institute and Undergraduate Research Conference in Nashville, TN, August 6-9, 2009.

As one of three student board members, Trivino will join four elected professionals to represent alumni members and students from more than 100 campus chapters throughout the United States in strategic leadership of the national honor society.

As a current graduate student in exercise physiology under the mentoring of Dr. Arturo Figueroa and KON advisor Dr.Jodee Dorsey, Julian Trivino has excelled inside and outside the classroom. As President of the Florida State University, Omicron Pi chapter, Trivino has led as team captain for the American Heart Association Big Bend Heart Walk for two consecutive years. Additionally, as an Honors in the Major alumni, he has alongside Dr. Cathy Levenson, informed undergraduates of research opportunities within the College of Human Sciences. Despite his involvement outside the class he has excelled in the classroom maintaining a 3.81 GPA. After finalizing his masters, Trivino hopes to continue his studies at Florida State University Medical School in the fall of 2010.

The mission of the organization is empowered leaders in scholarship, research, and leadership. This mission will enhance the ability of the organization and chapters to prepare scholars and researchers as leaders for the 21st century. Eligibility criteria for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals include exemplary study and practice related to any of the specialty areas representing the human sciences, including but not limited to: athletic training, family and consumer sciences, design, education, exercise science, financial planning, food science and human nutrition, health sciences, hotel/restaurant/institutional management, interior design and human environment, human development, kinesiology, merchandising management, policy analysis and management, social work, textiles and apparel.

Among the activities and programs of the honor society are a scholar program that awards local scholarships, a fellowship and grants program that makes national awards, and an undergraduate research initiative that includes a national conference and an online journal. In addition, Kappa Omicron Nu publishes a scholarly journal and develops educational initiatives. The national office is located in East Lansing, Michigan.

4990 Northwind Drive, Suite 140
East Lansing, MI 48823-5031
(T) 517.351.8335 - (F) 517.351.8336
Certified Member of Association of College Honor Societies

Contact: Dorothy I. Mitstifer
Telephone Number: (517) 351-8335
dmitstifer@kon.org

Dr. Goldsmith gave the keynote address at the Brazilian Home Economics Association Meeting held ...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:46:14 +0100

Dr. Elizabeth Goldsmith, TCS Professor and Fulbright Scholar, gave the keynote address entitled “Reinventing Home Economics: Past, Present, and Implications for Educators and 21st Century Families” to 600 students, government officials, and professors attending the Brazilian Home Economics Association Meeting held in Fortaleza, Brazil in September. Goldsmith traced the origins of home economics from prehistoric times to written records to the early years in the United States under the leadership of Ellen Swallow Richards to current post modern times including worldwide population trends.

She presented in English and an interpreter simultaneously translated her words into Portuguese. An excerpt from her speech:

“Ellen Richards stood for education, for advancement, for fairness, a belief in human goodness and progress. We need to own what we do and stand behind it. We need to redefine progress and re-claim our place at the table.”

Myron Rolle - On the Way to the N.F.L. Draft, a Year of Fulfillment in England

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:37:35 +0100

OXFORD, England — Instead of chasing after wide receivers in the N.F.L., Myron Rolle came here to chase ghosts around the ancient campus of the University of Oxford.

Rolle, 22, established himself as an elite student and athlete at Florida State, becoming a Rhodes scholar and a top N.F.L. prospect. But he temporarily said no to millions of dollars and risked his N.F.L. draft standing to study here. He is perhaps the most prominent athlete to accept a Rhodes scholarship since Bill Bradley in 1965.

“I feel a little disappointed when I see guys playing on Sundays, especially guys I’m friends with,” said Rolle, a 6-foot-2, 215-pound safety. “But when I walk out of my accommodations in Norham Gardens and spend time with my friends and go to class, I realize that I did make a good choice. It’s been worth it.”

Rolle walks the same streets that the future president Bill Clinton did when he was a Rhodes scholar. Rolle trains on the same grounds where Roger Bannister, an Oxford graduate, ran the first sub-four-minute mile in 1954. And as Rolle prepares for a life as a doctor and philanthropist after football, he aims to take a similar path as his role model, Bradley, the former N.B.A. player and United States senator.

Rolle plans to carve his own legacy after Oxford by attending medical school and becoming a neurosurgeon. He has started a foundation that is building a medical clinic and recreation center on a remote island in the Bahamas.

Although he misses football, Rolle has forged friendships that cross cultures and continents. He takes stimulating classes in which discussions and engaging classmates matter more than papers and tests.

“I think it’s a great message for all of us,” N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell said of Rolle’s decision to attend Oxford. “Even the greatest players don’t play forever. And they’re going to have to think about other careers, and he’s obviously thought about that at a young age.”

Football remains a part of Rolle’s future. He rises at 6:30 a.m. every day for two-hour workouts to prepare for this spring’s N.F.L. draft. Bradley, by contrast, ate five meals a day, did not exercise and gained 30 pounds in the two years he studied abroad, he said in a recent phone interview. Bradley jokingly encouraged Rolle not to follow his lead.

Bradley said he was proud that Rolle had set the groundwork for a life after sports. Rolle and his foundation have made strides toward raising the $5 million it will cost to open the clinic in the Bahamas. Rolle’s decision to study for a master’s degree in medical anthropology here will help him build an education foundation for his medicinal and philanthropic career.

“It shows real character on his part that he’s giving up the chance to sign a big N.F.L. contract and going to Oxford,” Bradley said. “The experience he’ll have will last a lifetime, while the context of his experience in pro football compared to college football will not be as different as his experience in Oxford will be from the non-football life he’s led.”

Rolle has been here three weeks — long enough that reality has overtaken expectation. He said he had no regrets. He said that nothing had better epitomized and reinforced his Rhodes experience than his unexpected friendship with Aisha Saad.

Saad, a Rhodes scholar from the University of North Carolina who is studying environmental policy, is a native of Egypt and a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab. She and Rolle agree that social constructs of undergraduate life would probably have precluded them from becoming friends in college. But on the seven-hour flight to London from Washington, linked by the serendipity of alphabetical order, Rolle and Saad talked nonstop about everything from global warming to gender equity, race, politics and family. (Saad has three younger brothers and Rolle four older brothers.) Some conversations were in English, others Spanish. There was little talk of football.

“I think other people were just as surprised as we were that we got along so well,” Saad said.
The two even played pranks on their fellow Rhodes scholars, making them dance to pass an imaginary toll booth, complete with beeping sound effects, in order to get to the bathroom.
“We got little jigs, shoulder bops and hip wiggles,” Rolle said, laughing.

Worried that Rhodes scholars would be stuffy, Rolle knew by the time he landed in London that he would fit in. Neither he nor Saad drinks alcohol, so they have avoided the popular pub scene, opting instead for four-hour debates.

“You definitely see his competitive side come out,” Saad said of Rolle. “Some conversations, we say, ‘We’re going to table this and continue it next week.’ ”

Rolle said he has enjoyed the classroom and campus experiences as well. His home college at Oxford, where he eats, socializes and gathers his mail, is St. Edmund, also known as Teddy Hall. Typical of Oxford, the building is estimated to have been built in 1278. A chalk sign that hung in the courtyard there Tuesday advertised a hall rugby match.

Rolle has also picked up the local patois. “Once I put that flame on the hob, not the stove, I knew I was officially here,” he said.

Formal classes meet infrequently, Rolle said. Instead there are discussion groups built around a student’s interests. Rolle said his pre-med studies at Florida State left him thinking that the tenets of biomedicine were black and white. But a lecture last week on the difference between illness and disease convinced him that he needed to be more open-minded.

“The fact I’m getting this knowledge before med school may make me a better med student, as I’m not so narrow-focused to think my way is the only way,” Rolle said.

The nicest thing about Oxford, Rolle said, is that it makes him feel as if he is in no hurry. He graduated from high school early and finished his education at Florida State in two and a half years, cutting short his football career by a season. He said the pace of Oxford had allowed him to throw himself into his studies without feeling harried.

He does not miss the on-campus autograph requests or being photographed with camera phones. He has gone from a standout student and athlete to one of 83 first-year Rhodes scholars who study alongside some of the other top students in the world.

“The caliber of the current scholars that Myron has the humbling opportunity to be part of is extraordinarily high,” said Don Markwell, the warden of the Rhodes House. “Many of them will go to become prime ministers, presidents, chief justices, senators, congressmen and the global heads of major corporations. How do I know this? This is what Rhodes scholars have done for the past 106 years.”

Few, though, have the athletic commitment that Rolle feels he must maintain. He works out from 7 to 9 every morning with his older brother and manager McKinley, a predawn routine that begins in a weight room where spare rugby balls are strewn around the floor. On Thursdays, Rolle practices with Oxford’s rugby team, but he has resisted overtures from the coach to play, something that the Heisman Trophy winner Pete Dawkins did when he was a Rhodes scholar.
“Pete Dawkins is a legend because he beat Cambridge by scoring the winning try,” Rolle said. “I learned real fast that beating Cambridge is very important around here.”

McKinley Rolle, 25, counts himself among a group of people, which includes some of Rolle’s former teammates at Florida State, who would have preferred that Rolle had gone straight to the N.F.L. and come back to Oxford later in life.

“But he’s intrinsically happy, and that makes me happy,” McKinley Rolle said. “Myron is fulfilled.”
He is also focused. Rolle will miss six weeks of the eight-week second term here to work out for and participate in the Senior Bowl and the N.F.L. combine, the top showcases for draft prospects. Rolle is projected to be selected in the top three rounds. Much will depend on his time in the 40-yard dash and N.F.L. teams’ perceptions of how his time away from football has affected his skills and his desire to play.

“A lot of questions came out about his commitment to football,” McKinley Rolle said. “But this shows he’s serious about playing football. We’re treating the Senior Bowl like the Super Bowl.”
When Rolle met Bradley last month in New York, Bradley pulled him aside and said that Rolle’s comments in the news media about how Bradley inspired him to become a Rhodes scholar had brought tears to his eyes. That meant a lot to Rolle, who grew up in Galloway, N.J., and attended the Hun School of Princeton. Bradley, of course, starred in basketball at Princeton.

"To find someone like Myron acknowledge that I had some impact on his life was really a moving moment,” Bradley said.

One day years from now, Rolle said, he hopes someone can pull him aside and tell him that he has had a similar inspirational impact on his life.

“If the draft works out, I think it solidifies that my dreams are realized,” Rolle said. “I want a young boy or girl in inner-city Chicago or wherever to see a guy who took a year off, got smarter, got a master’s degree and came back. I want to show that you can have options.”

Written By PETE THAMEL - The New York Times
Published: October 24, 2009
Click here to view the original article

FCS Doctoral Candidate receives 2009 National Council on Family Relations Student Award

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:58:07 +0100

Spencer Olmstead, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Family and Child Sciences, was awarded the 2009 National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Student Award. NCFR, founded in 1938, is dedicated to the development of family scholars from a variety of research backgrounds and interests. The award is given anually to a graduate student, nominated by a faculty member, who has been a member of NCFR for at least one year and whose work shows promise of significant contribution to family studies. Spencer will receive this award at the NCFR national conference held in San Francisco, California in November.

Spencer’s research focuses on men’s health in general and specifically on men’s sexual and reproductive health and fathering. As a member of Project RELATE, a 5-year federally funded relationship education intervention aimed at developing a national model for college students, he is working under the supervision of Drs. Kay Pasley and Frank Fincham collecting qualitative data to explore students’ expectations about unplanned pregnancy, contraceptive discussion and use, and men’s visions and expectations for future fatherhood. Quantitatively, he is working on testing measures of procreative consciousness and responsibility to examine college men’s sexual and reproductive health.
Clinically, Spencer engages in individual, couple, and relationship therapy at the Center for Couple and Family Therapy at FSU, where the education and training of MFT doctoral students occurs. He has focused his clinical work with couples experiencing a variety of relationship problems, as well as men with anger management and emotional expression issues.

NFES Doctoral Student working with Dr. Sathe has garnered awards at several national meetings ...

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:11:59 +0100

Girdhari (Gil) Sharma, a doctoral student working with Professor Shri Sathe in the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, has garnered awards at several national meetings over the last year. In May 2009 his poster at the American Oil Chemists’ Society Annual meeting in Orlando was awarded 2nd place. In June of 2009, his research poster in the “Susan L. Hefle” graduate paper competition in the Toxicology & Safety Evaluation Division at the national meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) was selected for 1st place honor. He had received third place in this same competition the previous year.

Girdhari Sharma

Sharma’s long term goals are to study foods to make them safer and more nutritious. His research interests include protein biochemistry, immunology and molecular biology. At FSU, he is investigating food-induced allergies with an emphasis on pecans and Brazil nuts. Since there is no cure for food allergies, he has focused on identification and molecular characterization of pecan nut seed allergenic proteins and on development of an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for Brazil nut detection. His work has resulted in development of a highly sensitive ELISA capable of detecting trace (nanogram) quantities of Brazil nut proteins. And he has also identified major allergenic proteins in pecan seeds. He constructed a pecan cDNA library and completed cDNA derived sequencing of the identified major allergens in pecans. The completed sequences have been submitted to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database.
Future plans are to identify the amino acid segments known as “epitopes” on select pecan allergenic proteins to help develop immunotherapy candidate peptides for treatment of patients suffering from pecan allergies. The College is proud of Sharma and his contributions to identification of food allergies.

NFES Doctoral Student receives fellowship from Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:19:00 +0100

Shirin Hooshmand, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Nutrition, Food & Exercise Sciences, received fellowship from Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science. This organization (www.gwis.org,), founded in 1921, is dedicated to advancing the participation and recognition of women in science and to fostering research through grants, awards, and fellowships. Hooshmand’s award, the Nell I. Mondy Fellowship, provides $8,333 for support of her pioneering study in the area of osteoarthritis, one of the top three health care problems of the developed world. She and her mentor, Dr. Bahram H. Arjmandi, NFES Department Chair and Margaret A. Sitton Professor, propose to investigate whether estrogen is involved in the progression of osteoarthritis (OA) and the production of proinflammatory molecules in the cartilage. They will also determine if selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) can inhibit cartilage deterioration and halt the progression of OA. Her findings in this area may eventually shed light into the etiology of OA and lead to the discovery of new agents to effectively prevent and/or treat OA.

Hooshmand’s application was selected as one of the top 10 awards from a pool of 305 applicants. Her photo and the abstract of her proposal will be published in the GWIS newsletter. Along with the funding, GWIS offers all award recipients a free 1-year membership. This has encouraged Hooshmand to begin the process of establishing an FSU-initiated chapter of GWIS. The College is proud of her recognition and her efforts.

NFES Faculty Member to target hidden fish allergens, pork, with new tests

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:13:31 +0100

The odds of contracting mad cow disease from banned or adulterated bovine protein lurking in raw or processed food for humans or meat-bone meal for livestock have declined over the past decade. So have the risks of purchasing fishy imposters billed as red snapper, ground beef that isn't all cow, or spoiled meat that doesn't look or smell bad ... yet.

All that consumer protection is thanks in part to improved food-testing methods -- quicker, more reliable paper-strip field tests and simpler, more accurate laboratory assays -- developed since the 1990s by food scientist Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh of The Florida State University. Currently, four assays in commercial use worldwide feature her patented technology.

Now, with two recent grants totaling nearly $500,000, Hsieh will begin work on the development of two new immunoassays for commercial use on both raw and processed food products. With a three-year, $280,000 award from the United States Department of Agriculture, she'll design a test to detect fish allergens, which cause allergic reactions in more than 6 million people each year in the United States alone. And, with a two-year, $216,000 award from a division of the Tanaka Kikinzoku Group of Japan, Hsieh will devise a rapid test to detect traces of pork fat -- good news for more than a billion Muslims and millions of Jews who adhere to Halal and Kosher dietary laws, respectively, that forbid pork consumption.
"In 2004, the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act (FALCP) called for mandatory labeling of the eight major allergenic foods by January 2006, but while methods have been developed to detect the presence of shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, cow's milk and egg, currently there's still no way to test for fish proteins in food materials," Hsieh said.

"With the increase in the production and consumption of seafood in recent years, more consumers with fish allergies are at risk of serious reactions or even death than ever before due to mislabeled or undeclared fish byproducts," she said. "My USDA grant will enable me to develop a convenient and reliable tool to enforce FALCPA and protect those consumers."

Hsieh expects to publish one or two papers per year during the course of the grant period. She anticipates at least one patent application for the project once it is completed.

"A fast, effective fish allergen immunoassay has the potential for immediate commercialization," she said. "Currently, two domestic biotechnology companies, who already have licensed several of our species-specific tests for food and feed control in heat-processed products, are marketing immunoassay kits for detection of ingredients in all seven types of foods listed in the 'Big Eight' except for finfish. Since the FALCP labeling mandate took effect in 2006, these companies have been eagerly seeking assays for fish detection, and they have shown strong interest in my laboratory's research efforts to develop fish-specific ones."

Awarded on the heels of her USDA fish-allergens grant, Hsieh's two-year grant from Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K. of Japan will help to advance her earlier research on the detection of pork products in food and feed products.

"I previously developed a rapid pork immunoassay that can sensitively detect any pork muscle in food and feed mixtures regardless of their processing conditions," Hsieh said. "This assay was commercialized in 2000 and has been widely used internationally. However, detection of pork fat remains challenging due to the physiochemical nature of the fat. Currently available methods all require sophisticated instruments coupled with complex data analysis procedures for interpreting results. Rapid field tests of pork or any other fat are non-existent.

"With this grant, I hope to change that, because such tests are vital to practicing Muslim and Jewish populations," she said.

Hsieh's novel and commercially successful food-testing technology took off in the 1990s when her research first revealed that even the rigors of rendering didn't destroy certain marker proteins in animal muscle tissue. With that discovery, she developed immunoassays using specific antibodies that react to the presence of those thermostable proteins and identify which species they come from. Results from her immunoassays have trumped those of traditional analyses -- time-consuming food testing processes fraught with false positives and negatives because the high heat of rendering causes most animal proteins and DNA to degrade.

A distinguished professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences at Florida State University's College of Human Sciences, Hsieh holds 11 patented and patent-pending technologies. Learn more about her cutting-edge research at www.chs.fsu.edu.

BY LIBBY FAIRHURST

Florida State University Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences Doctoral Candidate Participates ...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:25:16 +0100

Sheau Ching Chai, MS, doctoral candidate in the Florida State University Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, joined more than 80 other professors and graduate students from universities throughout the U.S. and around the world to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) course, “Dietary Supplement Research Practicum 2009.” The Practicum was held on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, June 1-5, 2009.

ODS offers this annual intensive course to provide essential knowledge of dietary supplements to academic faculty and their doctoral or post-doctoral students with a serious interest in this subject. Experts from NIH, academic institutions, and Federal regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) served as speakers.

The ODS practicum provides a thorough overview of issues, concepts, unknowns, and controversies about dietary supplements and supplement ingredients. It also emphasizes the importance of scientific investigations to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and value of these products for health promotion and disease prevention and treatment, as well as how to carry out this type of research.

On Wednesday, June 3rd, participants spent the day in Washington, D.C., to meet with representatives from the U.S. Congress, the dietary supplement industry, media, and consumer advocacy groups that study, advocate, regulate, or educate about dietary supplements.

NFES has The Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging(CAENRA) Approved

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:17:01 +0100

The United States is a graying nation with nearly 79 million baby boomers reaching their 61st birthday this year and subsequently by the year 2030 there will still be at least 71 million people who will be 65 years of age and older, suggesting that elderly care is a priority of the nation. The state of Florida currently ranks number one nationally for individuals 60 years and older, representing 23% of its population. Further, 9.2% of the state’s population is 75 years of age or older, ranking it third nationally in the number of centenarians only behind New York and California. Quality of life for aging Americans is a priority and new research is needed to elucidate mechanisms of the aging process. The Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging (CAENRA) provides a strong foundation for development of scientific research programs addressing aging related disorders amongst various populations.

CAENRA brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers already individually studying aspects of degeneration in skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, and neuronal systems with the goal of evaluating progressive diseases and their treatments at the molecular through organismal levels through the incorporation of high field magnetic resonance (MR) techniques. Such time course studies, with repeated MR measurements to complement biochemical assays, are critical to increasing our knowledge of the progression of diseases related to aging. The collaboration between NFES and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is unique to FSU and can be a hallmark in the field to produce research that is not able to be conducted anywhere else. For more information about CAENRA, its researchers and research projects please visit the website http://www.chs.fsu.edu/caenra.

Dr. Hsieh Receives Grant to develop a rapid method for the detection of porcine fat.

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:51:59 +0100

Y-H. Peggy Hsieh recently received a grant from Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K. of Japan to develop a rapid method for the detection of porcine fat. The two-year grant provides $216,000 in research funds plus $40,000 in consulting fees.

Pork tissue is strictly prohibited in Kosher and Halal diets for religious reasons. Reliable methods for the detection of any porcine tissue, including muscle and fat, are of paramount importance to the practicing Muslim and Jewish populations. Hsieh has previously developed a rapid pork immunoassay which can sensitively detect any pork muscle in food and feed mixtures regardless of their processing conditions. This pork-specific assay was commercialized in 2000 and has been widely used internationally. However, detection of pork fat remains challenging due to the physiochemical nature of the fat. Currently available methods such as DNA based Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) techniques, gas and liquid chromatography, and near-infrared spectroscopy, all require sophisticated instruments coupled with complex data analysis procedures for interpreting results. Rapid field tests of pork or any other fat are non-existent.

Hsieh will search for a porcine-specific and thermal-stable biomarker in the porcine fat tissue and develop a rapid method for the detection of the biomarker in raw and processed pork fat. It is anticipated that after two years, she will deliver the very first field assay which can identify even small amounts of pork fat in a wide range of raw and processed materials without using expensive instrumentation. This type of assay will greatly benefit billions of people who try to avoid pork in their diet. Tanaka has signed an optional licensing agreement with FSU in the hopes of commercializing Hsieh’s end product upon completion of this project.

The Tanaka Kikinzoku Group is Japan’s leading precious metals company with a history of over one hundred and twenty years. Although best known internationally for its high specification industrial products, the group is also producer and trader of a variety of bullion and platinum group metals, coins and bars. The group is also active environmentally, and is one of the world’s largest recyclers of platinum group metals. Their newly established Medical Group, which is funding Hsieh’s research, is focused on developing various products through the use of precious metals to improve human health.

Dr. Maria Spicer receives Grant from the Allen Foundation

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:09:28 +0100

Dr. Maria Spicer, Dietetics Internship Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, recently received a $74,000 grant from the Allen Foundation in Midland, Michigan (http://www.allenfoundation.org). The Foundation awards grants to projects that benefit human nutrition in the areas of education, training, and research.

Dr. Spicer’s project is aimed at increasing the utilization of the registered dietitian (RD) by delivering timely evidence-based dietetics practice to individuals needing medical nutrition therapy while providing a training venue for dietetics interns. The emphasis is on nutritional care of individuals suffering from diseases that may be countered with proper nutrition as an adjunct to medical care.

This project is designed to demonstrate the efficacy of medical nutrition therapy in the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases as well as to increase the visibility of RDs as part of the health care team and also to educate dietetic interns at FSU. An RD will teach the interns how to develop, market and deliver clinical nutrition services to patients referred by physicians in an ambulatory care setting. Current and future medical doctors and other members of the health care team will see the benefit of utilizing and including the dietitian as a functional health care provider in a multidisciplinary approach to patient care. The research will emphasize not only the role of the RD in patient care, but also the importance of medical nutrition therapy in health care

ACSM Student Bowl Competition

Tue, 26 May 2009 11:37:14 +0100

Join us for this "Jeopardy"-style competition in which teams of undergraduate students showcase their knowledge in categories commonly included in exercise science undergraduate curricula. Cheer on the team that represents your regional chapter. The event will be held Thursday, May 28 at 7:00pm in Metropolitan A of the Sheraton Seattle hotel.

Dr. Hsieh Receives Grant from USDA

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:42:03 +0100

The USDA has awarded Dr. Peggy Hsieh a grant of $280,000 over the next three years to develop a way to detect fish allergens and contaminants in raw or processed foods.

With the recent increase in the production and consumption of seafood, the number of reported allergic reactions to seafood in occupational and domestic settings is also on the rise. Mislabeled or undeclared fish byproducts in food are a major risk for consumers with fish allergies.

The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act (FALCPA) of 2004 requires mandatory labeling of the eight major allergenic foods. While there are methods to detect the presence of shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, cow’s milk and egg, there is currently no way to test for fish proteins in food materials.

The goal of Dr. Hsieh’s research is to provide a convenient and reliable tool to enforce FALCPA and protect consumers from the ingestion of undeclared fish allergens.

What's for lunch on Inauguration Day? Ask Liz Goldsmith!

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:30:00 +0100

Florida State University professor is oft-quoted expert on inaugural history, menus

CONTACT: Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, (850) 644-6893 or (850) 443-5814; egoldsmith@fsu.edu

By Libby Fairhurst
January 8, 2009

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- After being sworn in as the 44th president, Barack Obama will head inside to the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall to join family members, guests and Congressional leaders for the inauguration luncheon, in keeping with a tradition introduced by Harry S. Truman and embraced by every subsequent president except Jimmy Carter.

For now, what’s for lunch on Jan. 20, 2009, remains something of a state secret, but in the meantime, inaugural-luncheon guru Elizabeth B. Goldsmith of The Florida State University can share a smorgasbord of historical details on the food, china and all manner of spirits as well as other insider anecdotes from inauguration days past.

“The luncheons are important not only because they are the president’s first meal as Commander-in-Chief but also because they are genuinely happy events where the nation, not politics, comes first,” said Goldsmith, a human-sciences professor and Fulbright Scholar at Florida State. Nationally known and oft-quoted, she also is a former policy adviser to the White House on women’s and girls’ economic education, and has spent the past few decades researching personal finance and investing behavior, women and money, work and family issues, and the functioning of homes -- including the White House.

In fact, since 1992, Goldsmith has conducted her research in venues ranging from the White House curator’s office and the Smithsonian to presidential libraries and former Florida Sen. Claude Pepper’s library on the Florida State University campus.

She can offer some educated guesses about President-Elect Obama’s preferences for lunch on Jan. 20.

“I assume we’ll see American Midwestern cuisine traditionally associated with Chicago,” she said. “We may see some pineapple, too, reflecting the Hawaiian influences. In addition, there will be speeches, a gift presentation, toasts, and a large painting keyed to the luncheon theme will be displayed for all to see, a custom President Ronald Reagan began in 1985.”

Given a nation in the throes of a painful, protracted recession, the 2009 inaugural luncheon may be comparatively austere, or at least, different from those in recent inaugural years.

Such differences in tone are not unprecedented, Goldsmith said.

“Before Truman moved lunch to the Capitol, inauguration luncheons took place in lots of different places,” she said. “Sometimes they were held in hotels. On the other hand, President William McKinley grabbed a corned-beef sandwich and a cup of coffee in one of the Senate’s committee rooms.”

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and 1,200 guests convened in the White House for a simple buffet lunch of tomato soup; salad; beef, ham and tongue; and cake, ice cream and coffee, according to a description of the event, cited by Goldsmith, from Henrietta Nesbitt, the executive mansion’s housekeeper.

“Roosevelt requested chicken a la king for his final inaugural lunch, but Nesbitt explained that they couldn’t keep it hot for 2,000 guests and instead offered up chicken salad and rolls, unfrosted pound cake and coffee,” Goldsmith said.

President Truman decided to move his luncheon to the Capitol and, in his customarily understated manner, downsized the number of guests.

“As one might expect, President and Mrs. Kennedy held an elegant affair,” Goldsmith said. “The 1961 inauguration luncheon menu in the Capitol’s historic Supreme Court Chamber included delicacies such as cream of tomato soup with crushed popcorn and New England boiled stuffed lobster, and concluded with patisserie bateau blanche, mints and coffee.”

In 1965, President Johnson’s inaugural menu offered pink grapefruit supreme; relish tray; Texas heart of filet mignon; tomato surprise; string beans in butter; avocado and romaine salad; rolls and butter; and “The President’s Delight” as the featured dessert, according to Goldsmith.

“And over the years, lunches have grown more elaborate,” she said. “For instance, President Bill Clinton’s 1997 luncheon included champagne toasts as well as an impressive menu.”

President George W. Bush began his first term in 2001 by joining 230 guests for a gourmet repast featuring the Senate’s best china and music from the U.S. Army Brass quintet, Goldsmith said. The luncheon menu boasted lobster pie; grenadine of beef supreme; chartreuse of vegetables in a puff pastry ring; puree of small celery and parsnip roots; biscuits; toffee pudding with ice cream; and demitasse café and tea along with trays of chocolate-dipped ginger, candied fruit rinds, fresh strawberries, macaroons and truffles.

“In 2005, the Bush luncheon had a Native American theme that included quail, china with a woodland design, and a tribute to Teddy Roosevelt and Lewis and Clark,” Goldsmith said.

“One thing never changes,” she said. “In good economic times and bad, during war or peace, the mood at the inauguration luncheon is always celebratory.”

Dean Billie Collier appointed to a third term as the Consumer Advisor to the USDA Cotton Board

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:41:08 +0100

Dean Billie Collier was appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to a third term as the Consumer Advisor to the USDA Cotton Board. As the Consumer Advisor, Collier will provide a consumer perspective on the Board, which consists of cotton producers and importers of cotton products.

Based in Memphis, TN, the Cotton Board oversees the Research & Promotion Program for U.S. grown Upland cotton. The Program is funded through assessments of cotton produced in the U.S., as well as cotton products imported into the country.

The Research & Promotion Program, conducted by Cotton Incorporated, includes research on cotton varieties, improving cotton fabric properties and promoting the use of cotton through advertising. The familiar “seal of cotton” and the “fabric of our lives” were developed as part of the promotion program.

Deadline for submission

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:29:18 +0100

The deadline for submission of completed nominations is March 1 at 5:00 pm.

Stylist Showcase

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:25:44 +0100

Each Spring CMA participates in a Stylist Showcase. This year we are privileged enough to be able to hold our Showcase at Relay for Life. The Stylist Showcase is a fashion show in which our members get to show off the styling techniques. Some of the items featured in our fashion show will also be student designed, which will add a great twist to the showcase this year! Make sure to check out our show on April 4, 2008 at Mike Long Track – some of the items featured will be up for auction!

Clutch Magazine

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:22:51 +0100

CLUTCH Magazine is also a big part of CMA. CLUTCH is a student run fashion magazine that was created to be the ultimate local guide to style for the FSU student. The magazine was started in the Fall of 2006, and has received much acclaim. This spring we are currently working on our 4th edition of the magazine. It will be released February 29, 2008. Check out the CLUTCH website at www.fsuclutch.com for any additional information. For more information on how to get involved in CLUTCH e-mail us at fsuclutch@gmail.com.

Relay for Life

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:23:37 +0100

This year, CMA has gotten involved with Relay for Life, to help raise money to fight against cancer.