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. Over forty faculty members from the departments of Nutrition
and Food Science, Animal
Science, Poultry
Science, Biochemistry
and Biophysics, Health
& Kinesiology, Medical Microbiology and Immunology,
Human Anatomy and Medical Neurobiology, Social and Behavioral Health,
Sociology,
Statistics,
Small
Animal Clinical Sciences, Wildlife
and Fisheries Sciences, Plant
Physiology, Endocrinology, 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 participate in the intercollegiate graduate
program. 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. The Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition is proud to offer a graduate program where students may receive a M.S. or Ph.D. in Nutrition. The Bryan-College Station area, located in Central Texas, has a combined population of approximately 110,000. The community is within easy driving distance of Austin and Houston (each within 100 miles) and San Antonio and Dallas (each within 170 miles). Outdoor sports can be enjoyed year-round. Community facilities include excellent public and private schools, numerous cultural and athletic activities in which the youths, university students and adults of the community may participate; houses of worship representing approximately 20 denominations; hospitals; clinics; theaters and various shopping centers and malls and the George Bush Presidential Library. A number of parks and recreational areas are offered in both cities. Other such facilities located within 30 miles of College Station are Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park and Museum and Lake Somerville. The Gulf Coast is also within easy access, as are the picturesque pine forests of East Texas and the many lakes in the Hill Country of Central Texas.
The University has a limited number of apartments for married students at
reasonable rental rates. Applications for these apartments should be made
directly to:
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Department of Residence Life Web page . A wide variety of off-campus housing
is available. Information on off-campus housing can be obtained from the:
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