Current Studies | Penn State College of Health and Human Development

Elementary students sit together and eat lunch at a lunch table.

The NuConnections Research Team is currently conducting the following studies in the areas of nutrition-related behaviors and public health nutrition.

Students in a lunch line receive food from cafeteria workers.

Promoting healthy eating in schools

Together with colleagues from Arizona State University, the lab works in low-income schools to implement and assess interventions to promote nutrition and food security.

Teens stand at a kitchen counter with food in dishes in front of them.

YMpACT Academy

Youth mobilizing as agents for community change (pronounced, impact) is a youth participatory action project to empower youth to engage in nutrition-related social and structural determinants of health in their community.

A group of people sit together to eat a meal.

Food and nutrition security for college students

College students are at greater risk for food and nutrition security. The lab is working on approaches to better understand, address, and measure food and nutrition security in college students through various studies.