NDFS 494R Capstone Research Experience in Nutrition

NDFS 494R is intended to be the capstone undergraduate experience for Nutritional Science majors. It is research conducted under the supervision of a Nutritional Science faculty member. Students should take the initiative early in their third year to contact Department faculty who supervise NDFS 494R projects to learn what sort of research they are presently conducting. The student then decides which project most interests them, or proposes to one of the faculty an alternative project of the student's own design. The supervisor and student negotiate the number of credit hours the project will be worth and what it will entail.


Previous 494R Projects include:

• Increasing Rate of Diabetes is Related to Climatic Temperature and Precipitation
• Food Insecurity and Iron Deficiency in College Students
• Trends in Supplement Use Among UtahValley Gym Members
• Magnesium Deficiency Influences Learning Ability in Rats
• Development of a Computer Model to Predict Weight Change
• Magnesium and Hearing
• What's Cooking? Nutrition Classes versus Cooking Classes and Stage of Change
• Anemia's Relation with Impaired Cognitive Function in Children in Imbaburra, Ecuador