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HNFE Faculty make an impact, and we're so proud to celebrate when they are recognized for that impact 🎉

HNFE Assistant Professor and Senior Extension Specialist, Dr. Carlin Rafie, PhD, RD's "Virginia Cooperative Extension Diabetes Prevention Program" was selected to be part of the National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences Public Affairs - Advocacy Committee's Impact Hero stories for September! Dr. Carlin Rafie (left of center) with the 2024-25 Global Opportunity Initiative Fellows in Ethiopia by @vthnfe

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As the school year ramps up, it's important to think about what you're packing for lunch!

HNFE Professor, Dr. Brenda Davy recently visited WDBJ News to share about packing healthy school lunches!

You can watch her full segment at the 🔗 in our bio! Dr. Brenda Davy (left) shares school lunch tips on WDBJ's Here at Home segment by @vthnfe

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We spend many hours pouring into our students, so it makes us so proud to see where they go after they graduate.

Our alumni make positive impacts everywhere they go! Check out this feature from VT News on Seyi Olusina ’18, the administrative director of urgent care for Atrium Health!

Read more at the 🔗 in our bio! Seyi Olusina '18 (at right) and his wife Althea ’16, MSBA ’17, enjoy a football game at Lane Stadium. Photo courtesy of Seyi Olusina. by @vthnfe

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Collaborations that lead to discovery

Check out how an HNFE lab is collaborating with a lab in Virginia Tech's Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science to help further understand how the body responds and adapts to exercise at the 🔗 in our bio! by @vthnfe

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While we're still enjoying the excitement of the first week of classes, we also want to celebrate our awesome grad students! Here's to another great year! 🎉 by @vthnfe

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Happy first day of classes!

Today we want to take a chance to welcome our newest cohort of students in our @vt_msnd program! We're so excited to see what they accomplish in their time in the program and beyond! by @vthnfe

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Some important dates to keep in mind as the school year starts up!
You can also see these dates and more important information on the HNFE Updates Newsletter at the 🔗 in our bio! by @vthnfe

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We are proud to celebrate collaboration throughout our department!

Kimberly Keener, one of our @vt_msnd students, recently helped lead culinary demonstrations as part of research being done in HNFE professor, Dr. Brenda Davy's lab! by @vthnfe

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HNFE was well-represented at the 2026 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior/ASNNA Conference! Several current and former students and Family Nutrition Program (FNP) faculty were there to present at the poster session!

We want to give a huge shoutout to Dr. Nicole Furr, recent HNFE Phd graduate, Paige Harrigan, a postdoc in the Family Nutrition Program, Victor Olayemi an HNFE PhD student, and FNP Faculty member Amber Owens for representing our department so well! Dr. Nicole Furr (left) presenting her research poster by @vthnfe

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Work that gets noticed.

@virginia_cooperative_extension's work in southern Virginia through Virginia Homegrown, a project that focuses on community health and improving food security, was recently featured on @pbs!

you can watch the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio! by @vthnfe

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What happens inside the muscle cells of an athlete who runs almost 1,000 miles in sub-zero temperatures?

That question took HNFE PhD student Pierre-Anne Laird to Big Lake, Alaska, the home of Alaskan and Siberian sled dogs earlier this year!

Read more at the 🔗 in our bio! by @vthnfe

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Congratulations to HNFE Associate Professor, Dr. Joshua Drake who was invited by the The National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review to be a standing study section member of the Skeletal Muscle and Exercise Physiology Study Section (SMEP), Musculoskeletal, Oral and Skin Sciences Integrated Review Group (MOSS)!

He will hold this position until June 2030. by @vthnfe

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