Team: Carrie Kolb, Tenise Murray, Allison Kerfoot, Candice Whitaker, Grace Watson, Walter Imko, Katie Horm, Phillip Thomas, Lindsey Felkl, Katy Reese, Erin Bartle, Casey Chambers, Amanda Swafford, Dr. Felix Barron (faculty mentor)

Team: Ana Harris, Abigail Culin, Ellen Elliot, Rachel Harris, Meredith Harter, Meredith Faulling, Teal Stage, Margaret Burns, Kayla Ford, Kerri Cornwell, Lindsey Helms, Frances-Anne Barron, Georgiana Key, Debbie Die, Dr. Katherine Cason (faculty mentor)

Objective: Identify school-based informational, behavioral and social, and environmental and policy approaches for prevention of obesity and provide reliable and current pilot data that can serve to objectively identify priorities for outreach education and interventions and inform the development of future research in this area

Team: Timothy York, Sean Dribben, Matthew Dusinberre, Lauren Riemann, Eric Remster, Brandon Macias, Leah Andress, Scott Dinkel, Ryan Munsey, Brandon Holder, Matthew Cousins, Dr. Feng Chen (faculty mentor)

Objective: Find bioactive phytochemicals in the essential oil extracted form the Caraway plant (Carum carvi L.), determine the biological activities of a few of the components, primarily antioxidant and anticancer properties of the chemicals carvone and limonene

Team: Adam Shaffer, Vanessa Coulter, Leslie Templeton, Lauren Burtz, Tenise Murray, Marie Hegler, Terolyn Nesmith, Brittany Pace, Julie Henderson, Amy Clark Pender, Katie Gardner, Jaimee Park, David Wright, Kristine Soto, Rachel Coury, Anastasia Finn, Christie Blair, Davis Jaeger, Patty Michaud, Jen Kamps, Dr. Marge Condrasky (faculty mentor)

Objective: Analyze portion volume and calories presently served to customers and determine ways to get lower energy dense food combinations to decrease calories by 25% in restaurant dishes

Team: Heather Johnson, Judith Trevino, Brad Ballieu, Rachel Yost, Danielle Dimitroff, Ashley Spokowski, Beth Cox, Lina Ramirez, B.J. Min, Sunil Mangalassary, Dr. Paul Dawson (faculty mentor)

Objective: To determine how variables such as bacterial residence time, food contact time, food type, antimicrobial type, film or surface type and bacterial type affect the transfer and/or survival of bacteria

Team: Chase Lawrence, Kenneth Lee, Eric Remster, Ryan Eik, Sara Kolodzaike, Emily Nye, Russell Lamb, Shawn Lyons, Abigail Massey, Anna Heelan, Ralph Johnson, Dr. Ronald Galyean (faculty mentor)

Objective: Analyze various types of retail foods for major food constituents and determine for label compliance and public composition reports

Team: Elizabeth Phillips, Natalie Rossi, Michelle Hill, Mary Atkins, Rachael Wallace, Ragan Gillespie, Vande Nichols, Kate Stumbaugh, Carrie West, Kristy Maddox, Erin Lattimore, Julie Zaia, Chip Manuel, Maggie Stautberg, Stephanie Noto, Taylor Easton, Ruby Poon, Lindsey Durham, Carter Andrews, Laura Casey, Dr. Vivian Haley-Zitlin (faculty mentor)

Objective: Identify lifestyle factors of a pre-diabetes population, examine current strategies to address prevention and develop intervention techniques to prevent a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes

Team: Susan Denton, Emily Rea, Sarah Tuten, Molly Stevens, Catherine Cain, Kassie Keys, Laura Wilson, Courtney Moore, Kelly Schneider, Kayla Wald, Corrie Davis, Lecturer Rita Haliena and Dr. Elizabeth Kunkel (faculty mentor)

Objective: Determine how patients at free clinics obtain nutrition information and develop the best educational strategies for this population segment

Team: David Johnson, Teng Lu, Jimmy Ma, Adienne Wimbrow, Hua Yang, Marion Shepherd, Joey Brown, Brandon Kinley, Dr. Xiuping Jiang (faculty mentor)

Objective: Learn the techniques and skills in microbiological analysis of food or non-food samples and report on findings

Team: Martha Turner, Amy McEachin, Rebecca Gartman, Lindsey Smith, Tara Matheny, Avis Wright, Joanna Chapman, Anne Gillespie, Emily Whitehead, Dr. Elizabeth Kunkel and Lecturer Rita Haliena (faculty mentor)

Objective: Identify factors affecting availability of nutritionally appropriate food and its potential impact on health for a target population and use a research tool to study this impact and ways to administer it