The Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition at Texas A&M University was formally organized in 1989 with the adoption of the Constitution and By-Laws. Faculty members from many areas within Texas A&M joined forces to meet the needs of our students in this continuously changing scientific environment.
The Interdisciplinary Faculty of Nutrition promotes and administers graduate programs in the field of Nutrition. We are an interdepartmental program that draws upon faculty and resources of the departments of Nutrition and Food Science, Animal Science, Poultry Science, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Health & Kinesiology, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Social and Behavioral Health, Sociology, Statistics, Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Plant Physiology, and Anthropology in the colleges of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, School of Rural Public Health, and College of Liberal Arts. In addition, existing collaborative ties with Baylor College of Medicine, Central Texas Veteran’s Health Care Center, Scott and White Memorial Hospital and Clinic, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Institute for Biotechnology at Houston serve to link both the clinical and basic science components of the Graduate Nutrition Program.
The departments housing the Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition contain extensive modern research facilities, which are generously equipped with a full range of instrumentation required for research in cellular, molecular, developmental, endocrine, and reproductive biology. Included are laboratories for recombinant DNA research, microarray-bioinformatics, facilities for cell culture, electron microscopy, flow cytometry, histology, image analysis/cytogenics, laboratory animal research transgenics and containment, peptide sequencing, processing pilot plant, veterinary medicine diagnostics, avian diagnostics, mass spectrometry-proteomics, and horse, swine, avian, dairy, and aquaculture centers. There is also a new multi-million dollar Animal Nutrition and Physiology Lab available for research studies.
The University ranks first in the Southwest and is among the top ten institutions nationally in its level of research funding. We offer graduate study leading to Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Nutrition.
Structure of the Interdisciplinary Faculty of Nutrition
