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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Jennifer Tsai (left), an undergraduate student in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, explains her research on the relationship of insulin and another hormone on bone health at a poster session in Hillcrest Hall on Friday, August 8. Tsai was one of several students from Virginia Tech and other institutions along the East Coast to participate in the first U.S. Department of Agriculture Multi-Institutional Symposium on Obesity, Nutrition, and Health. Funded by the USDA as a part of a Higher Education Challenge Grant, the symposium highlighted the work of undergraduates in the USDA Scholars program, which funds up to 10 undergraduates to do intensive research projects over a 12-week period each summer.
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