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Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs
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jlee8@framingham.edu
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Mailing Address:
100 State Street
PO Box 9101
Framingham, MA 01701-9101
Professor Jane Schwartz receives funding for SNIP in MetroWest schools
The MetroWest Health Foundation awarded a substantial grant to Framingham State University’s Jane Schwartz, Chair of the Consumer Sciences Department, after a needs assessment of the food and nutrition programs at nine schools in the MetroWest. The FSU Consumer Sciences faculty completed the MetroWest School Food and Nutrition Assessment in 2012 and determined that the schools were in need of team-building and organizational culture change. The outcome of the findings resulted in Professor Schwartz’s program, School Nutrition Intervention Program (SNIP).
SNIP is presenting a year of training for those involved in school nutrition services – approximately 36 people from the nine schools. The program training started November 1, 2012, and is anticipated to end September 1, 2013. FSU Consumer Sciences faculty, along with members of the John Stalker Institute of Food and Nutrition (JSI), will implement new regulations in the MetroWest schools that are food-based, emphasize portion size and provide fruit, vegetable, and whole grain offerings.
The goals of SNIP are to improve culinary skills of cafeteria managers and line directors and to ensure that healthy food choices are offered that meet the new national food standards in school nutrition programs. An FSU facilitator will develop a marketing workshop for food service directors and managers to work with students, staff and parents. Mini-grants will be awarded to teachers who submit plans on how to use the cafeteria as a learning laboratory. The program ultimately seeks to change the paradigm of simply “getting the meal out,” to offering quality products in an environment conducive to healthy choices.
Dr. Emmanouil Apostolidis Receives Funding for Diabetes Research
Ocean Spray awarded Dr. Emmanouil Apostolidis of the Chemistry and Food Science Department a research contract for a project titled “Effect of cranberry phytochemicals on carbohydrate hydrolysis enzymes relevant to type 2 diabetes management.” The goal of Dr. Apostolidis’s proposed study is to assess the potential of cranberry phenolic constituents for Type-2 Diabetes management via the inhibition of carbohydrate hydrolysis enzymes. A series of two in-vitro experiments will be proposed to investigate the effect of cranberry extracts to define the most bioactive phytochemical fractions.
