Food Systems

August 2, 2019

Jennifer Otten joins national food waste committee

Jennifer Otten, an associate professor in environmental and occupational health sciences and a core faculty member in the Nutritional Sciences Program in the UW School of Public Health has joined a new committee formed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), which will conduct a systematic review of consumer food waste and…

June 6, 2019

UW Seattle Campus Food System

Explored the relationship between alternative and mainstream food systems on campus and how both function as a whole to create the University of Washington’s Seattle campus food system.

June 4, 2019

Retail, Dietary Trends, and the Food System

This project researched popular dietary trends and broader food purchasing decisions in the U.S. Examined the food system within a retail context.

The Relationship Between the Use of Social Media and the Student Farm

Conducted a review of the use of social media by UW Farm and made recommendations to further increase its positive impact.

Nutrition Education

Researched and wrote The Nutrition Corner and This Week’s Recipe for the weekly UW Farm Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) newsletter.

Food Pantry Liaison and Nutrition Education

Served as UW Food Pantry liaison, providing gleaned produce and simple, inexpensive recipes for Food Pantry customers. Researched and wrote The Nutrition Corner and This Week’s Recipe for the UW Farm weekly Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) newsletter.

November 7, 2018

Is There a Role for Myeloid Cell-derived Versican in Diabetes-accelerated Atherosclerosis

Cardiovascular diseases, caused by atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, are the number one cause of death in the world, causing over 30% of deaths. Diabetes is also becoming an increasingly common disease with nearly 10% of Americans diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes is known to increase macrophage expression and inflammatory activation leading to increased risk…

Use of a Nutrient Rich Foods Index to Study the Effect of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance on Supermarket Food Prices by Nutrient Quality

Minimum wage policies may increase the capacity of low wage workers to achieve higher quality diets through greater food purchasing power. However, limited evidence is available on the effect of minimum wage policies on consumer food prices and even fewer studies perform cost analyses that include measures of food quality. One hypothesis is that the…

Development and Implementation of The Wellness Project for Sororities at The University of Washington

This project was completed as part of NUTR 596: Nutrition Practice Capstone.

Compliance to a Prescribed Eating Frequency Protocol

Participant compliance is an important measure of study success in randomized control trials (RCTs.) However, there is a lack of literature studying participant compliance in dietary interventions, specifically eating frequency (EF) interventions. EF pattern has begun to spark interest in the field of nutrition, and calls for increased participant compliance research to ensure success of…

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