Food Science and Human Nutrition

Faculty and Staff

Academic Faculty

Academic Faculty

Kenneth Allen, Ph.D. [info]
Lipids, eicosanoids and oxyradical defense; heart disease.

Jennifer Anderson, Ph.D., R.D. [info]
Community nutrition and nutrition education; health promotion/disease prevention; special audiences (i.e. limited resources, athletes, elderly).

Garry Auld, Ph.D., R.D [info]
Community nutrition and nutrition education.

John Avens, Ph.D. [info]
Food safety; food microbiology.

Susan Baker, EdD. [info]
Design, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs targeting limited-resource audiences; Training and staff development of paraprofessionals; Breastfeeding promotion and support; Community-based nutrition education programs

Marisa Bunning, Ph.D. [info]
Food Safety Communication; Post-harvest Produce Safety and Quality; Food Processing; Consumer Food Handling Behavior

Arthur Campfield, Ph.D. [info]
Regulation of food intake and energy balance; biology of hunger; obesity-molecular and metabolic mechanisms, health risks, treatment and prevention; neurobiology of leptin; community-based interventions to prevent obesity, especially in children and adolescents.

Leslie Cunningham-Sabo, Ph.D. [info]
Public health nutrition (communities, schools); Validation of dietary instruments; Minority populations; Community-based participatory research; Translation of prevention research into practice

Bill Franz, Ph.D., PHR [info]
Resort, hotel and food service management.

Mary Harris, Ph.D., R.D. [info]
Lipid metabolism; prostaglandins in pregnancy and childhood; nutrition and exercise.

Tracy Horton, Ph.D. [info]
Primary scientific interest focus’s on delineating the metabolic differences between men and women that can enhance our understanding of the etiology, prevention and treatment of disease.

Soo Kang, Ph.D. CHE [info]
Consumer behaviors and marketing, Hospitality education and learning and Cross cultural tourism behaviors and management.

Patricia Kendall, Ph.D., R.D. [info]
Nutrition education methodology, diet planning to reduce risk of chronic disease; food safety and risk education methodologies; health behavior motivational factors.

Chris Melby, Dr. P.H. [info]
Diet, exercise and energy metabolism; nutritional epidemiology.

Jeffrey Miller, Ph.D., C.E.C., C.C.E. [info]
Resort, hotel and food service management.

Mike Pagliassotti, Ph.D. [info]
The role of dietary nutrients in the development of type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Pagliassotti's Lab web page: http://www.paglab.com/

David Sampson, Ph.D. [info]
Vitamin B6 metabolism and bioavailability; diet and lactation.

Kenneth Smith, Ed.D. [info]
Restaurant management; institutional and food service management

Martha Stone, Ph.D. [info]
Experimental foods, food extrusion, cereal grains.

Jairam Vanamala, Ph.D. [info]
The role of functional foods and bioactive compounds in the suppression of obesity-promoted cancers and regulation of gut hormones (hunger and satiety).

Research Associates

Leslie Beckstrom,
Research Associate [info]

Laura Bellows
Research Associate [info]

Susan Gould
Research Associate [info]

Ruth Inglis-Widrick
Research Associate [info]

Reddivari Lavanya Ph.D.
Research Associate

Shirley Perryman
Extension Specialist [info]

Kathryn Rogers MS,RD
Research Associate, EFNEP [info]

Human Nutrition and Food Science
Colorado State University
214 Gifford Building
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1571
970.491.3642
karogers@cahs.colostate.edu

Mary Schroeder
Research Associate [info]

Francoise Smith
Research Scientist [info]

Alexandra Smith
Research Associate

Dong Wang
Research Associate III [info]

Melissa Wdowik, PhD, RD
Research Associate [info]

Yuren (Rosie) Wei
Research Scientist [info]

Diane Wenzel, MS, RD
Research Associate [info]

Diane Wenzel

970.491.0932
244 Gifford Building
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1571
dianemw@cahs.colostate.edu

Diane is the Youth Initiative Coordinator for the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program. She works with limited resource school districts throughout Colorado to secure federal funding to bring nutrition education resources to this audience.

John William Wilson
Research Associate/IT Manager [info]

Support Staff

Pamela Blue, Program Assist. II
Special Events [info]

Pamela Blue

Special Events:
970.491.7435
blue@cahs.colostate.edu

Paula Coleman, Administrative Assist. II
Graduate Information [info]

Paula Coleman

Graduate Information:
970.491.3819
pcoleman@cahs.colostate.edu

Pamela Cox, Program Assist. I
Undergraduate Information [info]

Pamela Cox

Undergraduate Information:
970.491.1944
cox@cahs.colostate.edu

Donna Lary
Admin. Asst. II [info]

Sherry Nash , Admin. Asst. II Cooperative Extension
Admin. Asst. II Cooperative Extension [info]

Linda Quaratino , Admin. Asst. III Cooperative Extension
Admin. Asst. III Cooperative Extension [info]

Marjorie Vasquez
Lab Support I [info]

Lyn Warrick, Lab Assist. I
Accounting Tech. II [info]

Emeritus Faculty

Klaus Lorenz, Ph.D. (Emeritus)
Experimental studies with cereal grains and bakery products [info]

Klaus Lorenz

Klaus Lorenz was born in Berlin, Germany. He received a Ph.B. in chemistry from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. His M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees were received from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. After working in the family bakery in Berlin, Germany, his work experience included Baking Technologist for the American Institute of Baking, Food Technologist for the Kraft Corporation and Research Assistant in cereal science at Kansas State University. He was a Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State since 1970, and he pubished over 250 publications in peer reviewed journals, books and abstracts. His research interests encompassed cereal science and technology, baking science and carbohydrate chemistry.

Joseph Maga, Ph.D. (Emeritus)
Sensory and objective measurement of food flavor; food preservation through smoking; food extrusion and product quality. [info]

Joseph A. Maga was born in western Pennsylvania and received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in dairy chemistry from Penn State. After working several years, each for Borden Foods and Central Soya developing simulated dairy products, he completed his Ph.D. in the area of soybean flavor chemistry at Kansas State. Since 1970, he has been in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University where he currently holds the rank of Professor. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Association of Cereal Chemists and the Institute of Food Technologists. Courses taught included alcoholic beverage technology, fruit and vegetable technology, fish and seafood technology, quality control, sensory evaluation and flavor chemistry; his research interests primarily included areas of flavor chemistry and food extrusion technology. He has authored over 200 publications and has three books to his credit.

Barbara Smith, Ph.D., R.D. (Emeritus)
Nutrition and brain chemistry; clinical nutrition [info]

Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith received her B.S. Degree in biology at Wheaton College in Illinois. Her M.S. Degree in foods and nutrition was received from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a Ph.D. Degree in human nutrition was received at Colorado State University. From 1964-1970, she was a Nutrition Specialist at the Kennedy Laboratory in the Pediatrics Department at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center. She has been a half-time Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University since 1984. She has over 14 publications in peer reviewed journals. Her areas of research interest include clinical nutrition, women’s nutrition issues and nutrition and the brain.