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Majors

Discover Your Path in Food and Health

From developing innovative food products to understanding how nutrition influences human health, science offers many ways to make a difference. Explore two hands-on majors that prepare you to improve the foods we eat, support healthier lives and help shape the future of food and nutrition.

Food Science

Explore the science behind the foods we eat, from chemistry and microbiology to processing, safety and product development. Through hands-on learning, you'll build the knowledge and skills to create innovative food products, improve quality and advance more sustainable food production.

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Nutrition

Discover how food and nutrients influence human health, wellbeing and disease prevention. Through hands-on learning in nutrition science, biology and human physiology, you'll build a foundation for opportunities in dietetics, healthcare, community wellness and advanced study.

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Food Science master student researches how to convert olive pomace, which is the waste left after olives are pressed for oil, into biomethane, a renewable energy source.

Diversify Your Education

Add an animal science minor to your degree and increase your knowledge and experience. 

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