Recent News and Events
Articles
- UTORC Doctoral Candidate Participates in NIH Dietary Supplement Research Practicum 2009 - June 5, 2009
- The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture Professor Participates in NIH Dietary Supplement Research Practicum 2009 - June 5, 2009
- UTORC Pilot and Feasibility Grants Awarded - March 25, 2008
- UT Professors Awarded $625,000 Grant to Study Childhood Obesity; Students in Destination ImagiNation to Participate - January 8, 2008
- UT Creates Research Center to Study Obesity Prevention and Treatment - August 24, 2007
Seminars
- Circulating Microparticles: Measurement and Clinical Significance - Paul Harrison - October 14, 2009 - 3:30 PM - Walters Life Sciences M307 (webcast)
- The Domestic Chicken: a Feathered
Model of Human Obesity
and Insulin Resistance? - Dr. Jean Simon
September 21, 2009 at 3:30 PM, 160 Plant Biotech Building (Webcast)
- Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium -
Infancy: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Parenting and Mothers’ Experiences. September 25, 2009 (Flyer)
- COMPREHENSIVE METABOLIC
PROFILING DEFINES NOVEL OBESITY
AND DIABETES MECHANISMS with Christopher B. Newgard, Ph.D. - April 6, 2009 - University Center Shiloh Center (Webcast)
- MOVIN' MAMAS: PHYSICAL ACTIVITY DURING PREGNANCY AND POSTPARTUM with James M. Pivarnik, Ph.D. - March 27, 2009 - University Center Shiloh Center (Webcast)
- Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium and Webconference:
Registration is now open through Friday, March 20 for the University of
Tennessee Public Health Nutrition Program's first "Promoting Healthy Weight
Colloquium" set for Friday, March 27, 2009.
- BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND
OBESITY:
From Molecular Biology to Public Policy with Leonard H. Epstein, Ph.D. - March 9, 2009- University Center Shiloh Center (Webcast)
- Missing the Obvious: Activity, Disease, & Free Will with J. Timothy Lightfoot, Ph.D. - November, 20th, 2008 - UT Black Cultural Center (Webcast)
- Food Insecurity, Stress, and Childhood Overweight - September 24, 2008 - 9:00 am - Black Cultural Center (Webcast)
- Obesity-Associated Inflammation: Role of adipose tissue and anti-inflammatory nutrients (Webcast)
- The World is FAT: Understanding the Patterns of the Nutrition Transition (Webcast)
- Distributed Control of Muscle Glucose Uptake in Health and Insulin Resistance (Webcast)
- The Influence of Ethnicity, Pre-and-Postnatal Nutrition and Physical Activity on Potential Markers for the Metabolic
- Syndrome in Pre-pubertal Youth
Retreats
- UT Obesity Research Center Retreat, October 9-10, 2008, Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee
Workshops
- CSREES-USDA NRI Competitive Programs Grantsmanship Workshop in Knoxville - July 17, 2008
- The Establishment, Maintenance & Turnover of Fat Depots -
May 21-22, 2008
Lister Hill Auditorium, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (http://fatdepotsmtg.niddk.nih.gov) - The Obesity Challenge in Public Health: Integrating Best Practices into Culturally Competent, Family-Centered Solutions - March 13-14, 2008 (An Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Workshop Brochure)
10 or more continuing education credits for your professions! (RD, RN, OT, PT, SLP, social work, case managers, educators, psychologists, physicians, and others) Registration is free; however there is a $20.00 lunch fee - 2008 National Health Policy Conference (NHPC), Washington, D.C. - February 4-5, 2008
Is The Obesity Epidemic A Strain on Public Health Systems? (http://academyhealth.org/nhpc/index.htm) 
UT Obesity Research Center Interdisciplinary Obesity Workshop Held October 15, 2007
Agenda and Minutes, Overview Presentation by
Naima Moustaid-Moussa and David Bassett
UT ORC, Systems Genetics Resources for Obesity by
Brynn H. Voy Systems Genetics Group, Randomized Controlled Trials of Lifestyle Intervention for Children and Adults by Hollie Raynor, Population-Based Obesity Research by Eugene C. Fitzhugh- VideoCast from NIH, Friday, December 14, 2007 : http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=6090