Center For Designing Foods To Improve Nutrition

News Newsletters Media Hits Events News Archive Research Brief Research Projects Service Units Human Metabolic Unit Sensory Evaluation Unit Mass Spectrometry Unit Botanical center Home News Research Center Starch Initiative Overview Presentation Resources Press Releases Events Affiliates Faculty Partnership Funding Students Summers Scholars Program Art on Campus Aequanimitas	About The Center The Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition (CDFIN) was established at Iowa S tate University to conduct and foster interdisciplinary research to improve human nutrition and promote good health through new and traditional foods.	*Announcements:* CDFIN Call for Proposals Released Related Link Diane Birt, Interim CDFIN Director, appointed to Institute of Medicine's Food Nutrition Board. Related Link CDFIN Summer Scholars Program Featured. Related Link ISU food scientist Ken Prusa (Professor in Charge of CDFIN's Sensory Evaluation Unit) has identified a characteristic of pork that may be as significant to the industry as leanness. News release We are pleased to announce that Diane Birt, Distinguished Professor of Food Science and Nutrition, has agreed to serve as Interim Director of the Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition. Dr. Birt served as director of CDFIN from 1997 until 2002. As interim director, she will work with 100 affiliate faculty in 30 departments who conduct interdisciplinary research to improve human nutrition and health through new and traditional foods. The appointment is effective immediately. (Read More)