Nutrition

Virginia Tech is a national and international leader in animal and poultry nutrition research involving beef cattle, chickens, turkeys, swine, sheep and horses. Graduate programs provide the opportunity for students to conduct original research to seek solutions to nutritional problems by employing approaches ranging from molecular biology to conventional laboratory techniques and from controlled animal facilities to field production systems. Laboratories utilized in nutrition research contain state-of-the-art analytical and computer equipment. An excellent selection of graduate courses is offered covering subjects including nutrition, biochemistry, molecular biology, physiology, statistics and others.

The John Lee Pratt Animal Nutrition Program was initiated with a bequest of Mr. Pratt to the College of Agriculture and Life Science to be used for "... promoting the study of animal nutrition, ... and to provide equipment and materials for experiments in feeding and the preparation of feed for livestock and poultry ..." This program provides continuing support for animal nutrition research in the form of graduate fellowships, graduate assistantships, research equipment, visiting scholars, seminar speakers, etc. Excellence in animal nutrition research at Virginia Tech is enhanced because of support from this program.

Faculty:

• Jeffery Escobar: Immunology and Nutrition
• D. E. Eversole: Ruminant Nutrition