SAES faculty member among those selected for NIH practicum

Dr. Lizette Sanchez-Lugo, an SAES assistant professor in Family and Consumer Sciences and the interim director of the University’s Institute for Public Health, was one of 100 instructors and doctoral-level students in nutrition, food science, pharmacology and other health-related disciplines accepted for the National Institutes of Health's Dietary Supplement Research Practicum in early June. Experts from the NIH, and federal regulatory agencies and research institutions led participants through five days of intensive study of the substances that can supply additional vitamins, minerals and other nutrients to the human diet.