Human Health: Food & Nutrition

Programs in this area provide students with hands-on learning experiences in a wide variety of fields such as dietetics, food and nutritional sciences, packaging and biosystems engineering.

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human-health-v2-badge-areas-of-study-squareSpartans in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) cultivate the next BIG IDEAS in food, health and the environment.

Human Health: Food & Nutrition

Human Health is a field critical to our everyday life. As we investigate new ways to interact with our environment, our food systems and nutrition will be impacted in dynamic ways.

From the science behind food and systems to the impacts on our health, programs in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources prepare students for the needs of the century ahead.

We cultivate future innovations in food and health!

Find out more! Contact Jeff Keson at kesonjef@msu.edu or (517) 353-0560.

To learn about our graduate programs, please email us at canr.grad@anr.msu.edu.

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Some College of Agriculture and Natural Resources graduate programs include:

  • Agricultural Food & Resource Economics (M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Biosystems Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Food Science (M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Human Nutrition (M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Packaging (M.S., Ph.D.)

More information is available in the CANR Graduate section and through the MSU Graduate School.

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