Nutritional Sciences
Faculty
Dr. Mallory Boylan, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., Professor
Instructor for Medical Nutrition Therapy courses, Vitamins in Nutrition, Issues in Nutrition and F&N Research. Research areas include antioxidants and health and nutrients in breast milk.
e-mail: mallory.boylan@ttu.edu
Dr. Jamie Cooper, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Instructor for graduate courses in Nutrition, Exercise, and Sport and Nutritional Epidemiology and undergraduate course in Sports Nutrition. Research interest in Human Obesity, which includes studying patterns of body weight and body composition change, hunger and satiety hormones, energy metabolism, and nutrition and exercise interventions.
e-mail: jamie.a.cooper@ttu.edu
Mrs. Shelley Fillipp, M.S., R.D., L.D., Instructor
Director of Dietetic Internship
Instructor for Nutrition through the Lifecycle. As Director of the Dietetic Internship,
also provides supplemental class for interns.
e-mail: shelley.fillipp@ttu.edu
Mrs. Lydia Kloiber, M.S., R.D., L.D., CNSD & Instructor
Director of Didactic Program in Dietetic
Instructor for Essentials in Dietetic Practice, Dietetic Counseling Strategies,
Nutrition, Food and Healthy Living, and Science of Nutrition. Director of undergraduate
Didactic Program in Dietetics and Advisor to the Student Dietetic Association. Also,
lab coordinator for Science of Nutrition.
e-mail: lydia.kloiber@ttu.edu
Dr. Chad M. Paton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Instructor for graduate and undergraduate courses in Biochemistry, Metabolism, and Genetics. Research interests in the regulation of metabolism in health and disease which includes work in animal and cell models. Ongoing projects include assessment of high fat diet induced obesity on nuclear receptor function.
e-mail: chad.m.paton@ttu.edu
Dr. Debra B. Reed, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., Professor and Helen DeVitt Jones Chair
Graduate Advisor
Instructor for undergraduate and graduate courses in community nutrition. Research interests include prevention of overweight in children and adults and nutrition education for diverse and disadvantaged populations.
e-mail: debra.reed@ttu.edu
Dr. Julian Spallholz, Ph.D. & Professor
Instructor for Minerals in Nutrition, Science of Nutrition, Survey of Biochemistry, and Nutritional Biochemistry. Research area include nutritional and toxicological aspects of selenium and its compounds, drug development using selenium free radical chemistry, arsenic toxicity.
e-mail: julian.spallholz@ttu.edu
Dr. Shu Wang, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Instructor for graduate courses in carbohydrates and proteins in nutrition, lipids in nutrition, nutrition and chronic diseases and nutritional pathophysiology and undergraduate course in nutritional biochemistry. Research interests include nutrition and inflammation and chronic diseases. Our research group encapsulates nutrients and natural compounds into biocompatible and biodegradable nanoparticles to dramatically increase their cellular bioavailability, stability and target specificity to specific cells or tissues, with the goal of preventing and curing chronic diseases including cardiovascular diseases, obesity and cancers.
e-mail: shu.wang@ttu.edu