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Workplace weight-loss program illustrates promise, difficulty of overcoming obesity

November 30, 2020

Science & Technology

Nebraska’s Tim Nelson has received a new five-year grant to extend research into obesity. One component of it is to test subjects at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior by having the test subject in an MRI receiving sips of milkshakes.

Nebraska researchers continue obesity intervention study

September 4, 2020

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Society & Culture

Smart cookies: Media day puts food-related experts at forefront

January 30, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

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Janos Zempleni, Willa Cather Professor of molecular nutrition in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, leads the Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases through Dietary Molecules. The center has received an additional $11 million from the National Institutes of Health’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence program, or COBRE, to continue another five years.

Center earns $11 million to continue obesity-prevention research

October 14, 2019

Timothy Nelson, associate professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is studying how certain cognitive processes that develop throughout childhood affect health behaviors during adolescence and beyond.

Nebraska researchers eye link between cognitive abilities, weight

September 20, 2018

Science & Technology

Sheldon Art Museum

Fall symposium to feature obesity experts

August 30, 2017

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Proposals sought for research into nutrient signaling, obesity

June 27, 2017

Sheldon Art Museum

Center for the Prevention of Obesity Disease retreat is April 12

March 24, 2017

Study: U.S. obesity could be reduced via Greek, Japanese diets

July 27, 2015