Expert Seminar Presentations

The Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences in CALS is proudly hosting a series of graduate seminars this fall with internal and external invited expert speakers. We welcome graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff and those interested to attend these seminar presentations.

Thursdays 3:30-4:45 p.m. | Niccolls Building, Room 206 or via Zoom: https://uidaho.zoom.us/j/98598607119

Sept. 10 — Assembling a jumbo jet while flying it: studying mother-to-infant SARS-CoV2 transmission during the pandemic

• Michelle (Shelley McGuire), Director, Professor of Maternal and Child Nutrition
• Graduate seminar flyer (pdf)

Oct. 8 —Journey from textile chemist to artist in residence at an art museum — it makes sense!

• Donna Brown, Ph.D., Professional Practice Professor, Utah State University
• Graduate seminar flyer (pdf) 

Oct. 29 — Self-regulation across the lifespan: Insights from boredom, babies and brains

• Alana Anderson, Ph.D. Candidate, Washington State University

Nov. 5 — Mechanisms of harm in feeding the critically ill patient

• Liam McKeever, Ph.D., RDN, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
• Graduate seminar flyer (pdf)

Nov. 12 — Adult roles and children’s social-emotional development at mealtimes in group settings

• Janice Fletcher, Ed.D., Professor emeritus, University of Idaho

Dec. 3 — Host-Microbe Interactions between Cattle and E. coli O157:H7

• Carolyn Bohach, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor, University of Idaho

Dec. 10 — title to be determined

• Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, Ph.D., R.D., Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago