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and Vitamins & Minerals (VM) RIS had a conference call
regarding establishment of a joint Mentor/Mentee program.
To better serve our junior members, DBC, N-GI and VM-RIS
have agreed to initiate a joint mentor/mentee program.
This program can potentially be beneficial for students or
other junior members to build their professional network
and seek input and advice from resources outside their
immediate academic environment, such as the department
at their host universities. Two steps will be taken to
initiate this program. The first step is to survey the senior
members in these RIS and ask them to serve as mentors.
After the establishment of a list of mentors, another survey
Member Spotlight
Canada Spotlight
From the
Canadian
Nutrition Society
(CNS): Two of
Canada’s giants
in nutrition
passed away last
year: Dr. George
H. Beaton on
Monday, October
8, 2012, and Dr. Bruce E. McDonald on Friday, April 27,
2012. Dr. Beaton was a Fellow of the American Society
for Nutrition, an Emeritus Professor and former Chair of
the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of
Toronto, and an Officer of the Order of Canada. He played
an influential role in establishing the Canada Food Guide
and worked tirelessly with the United Nations and the
World Health Organization to improve nutrition and reduce
mortality of children in low-income countries. Dr. Beaton
had a profound and significant influence on the careers
and lives of many CNS members across Canada and
scientists internationally. He was an Emeritus Member of
CNS and the inspiration for the CNS George Beaton Award
in Public Health Nutrition.
Dr. McDonald was a Professor at Macdonald College
of McGill University and later, Professor and Professor
Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, which honored
him with a scholarship in his name. After his retirement
will be sent out to junior members for them to identify
one desired and one alternative mentor. The mentor and
mentee can meet when they are attending EB or other
conferences, or they can communicate via
email exchanges.
Last, I would like to encourage everyone to become
more active members in the VM-RIS and contribute to the
development of ASN!
Contributed by Guoxun Chen, PhD
gcheng6@utk.edu
Nutrition Notes seeks additional spotlight
editors for various regions. Please email
sprice@nutrition.org if you are interested.
from teaching, he served as Executive Director of the
Manitoba Health Research Council, and held appointments
with Health Canada/Heart and Stroke Canada and the
Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. He influenced a
generation of nutrition scientists and clinicians through
his teaching, research, administrator duties, and activities
as an author. His interests are reflected in his degrees in
agriculture, nutrition and biochemistry, and he may be said
to be truly one of the pioneers in the “gate to plate” model
of nutrition.
The CNS (www.cns-scn.ca/) will be holding its Annual
Meeting at the Loews Hotel Le Concorde, in Quebec City,
Quebec on May 30-June 2, 2013.
From the University of Alberta: Dr. Rene Jacobs is the
recipient of both the American Society for Nutrition E.L.R.
Stokstad Award and an International Life Science Institute
(North American) Future Leader Award.
From the University of Manitoba: Dr. Michael Eskin
has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Stephen S.
Change Award for Lipid Science by the Institute of Food
Technologists for his significant contributions to lipid
science. His work helped to establish canola oil as an
important oil in the world market. The award represents
the highest honor in lipid science and recognizes his 40
years of outstanding research.
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