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Click here for access to Dr. Lupton’s full obituary. Public memorial opportunities are still tentative, and ASN will share information as it becomes available. 

Memorial donations for Dr. Lupton can also be made online. Simply complete the “in memory of” field on the ASN Foundation’s donation form, and let us know to whom the acknowledgment should be sent.

The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences recognizes research by a mid-career scientist (defined as up to 20 years since completion of PhD) at a U.S. institution who has made an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a species fundamentally important to agriculture or food production. For the purpose of the prize, areas of science with applications to agriculture include plant and animal sciences, microbiology, nutrition and food science, soil science, entomology, veterinary medicine, and agricultural economics. The recipient will be awarded a medal and a $100,000 prize. The prize is endowed through generous gifts from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The deadline for nominations is October 5, 2020. Follow the links for more information about the award and the nomination process.  

A new ASN Publishing and Education Strategic Planning Task Force will explore how ASN can expand its role in the creation, translation, and dissemination of high-quality nutrition science through publications and educational initiatives. As ASN approaches its 100^th year as a leader in encouraging and sharing science-based nutrition knowledge, the task force will evaluate how ASN can leverage new opportunities in publishing to better serve the nutrition science community.

The task force is co-led by Marta Van Loan, PhD (Chair, Publications Committee) and Sarah Booth, PhD (ASN Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee) and includes Robert Bertolo, PhD, MSc, Stuart Phillips, PhD, and Emily Smith, ScD, MPH. The entire task force will work collaboratively with ASN journals’ Editors-in-Chief: Teresa A. Davis, PhD, The Journal of Nutrition (JN); Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN); Katherine L. Tucker, PhD, Advances in Nutrition (AN); and Jack Odle, PhD, Current Developments in Nutrition (CDN)

Register Now for the NORC Minority Symposium

The virtual series will include (5) five 2-hour sessions and will launch starting on Friday, September 11. Each session will be held from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (Central). 

Click here to review the full schedule and to Register for FREE. 

ASN's COVID-19 resource page is continually updated with information, including a blog to highlight ways to prioritize nutrition and healthy living during the COVID-19 outbreak and an AJCN Associate Editor's experience in Wuhan, China. More blogs guest authored by ASN members to come soon! The page features relevant articles from ASN's journals collection, as well as additional information from government agencies and health and news organizations. We encourage you to use this page and share with your networks.

To access the NUTRITION 2020 LIVE ONLINE recordings, visit nutrition.memberclicks.net/login#/login.

For other highlights visit: https://meeting.nutrition.org/

Thanks to the generous support of ASN members and colleagues throughout the nutrition community, donations to the ASN Foundation allowed NUTRITION 2020 LIVE ONLINE content to be offered via FREE ACCESS. Free access was granted to everyone through early July with continued free access to all ASN members.

Show your appreciation to the ASN Foundation for providing Nutrition 2020 Live Online free around the world by giving a donation!” Your tax-deductible contribution will help ensure that nutrition science and its practical application will continue to be disseminated as widely as possible as we all continue to practice safe social distancing. All donations make a difference!

SAVE THE DATE FOR NUTRITION 2021!

Nutrition 2021 in Boston, July 10 – 13, 2021

ASN’s annual flagship meeting will return to Boston, MA, the site of its record breaking, inaugural meeting in 2018 to host Nutrition 2021, July 10 – 13. Click Here for information or to sign up for updates. Bookmark the meeting site and check back often for updates at https://meeting.nutrition.org/N21

ASN provided oral testimony to USDA and HHS at a virtual meeting held Tuesday, August 11, 2020, to hear public comment on the Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. ASN also provided written comments to the Agencies. All public comments will be considered by the Agencies as they develop the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which will be released by the end of this year. ASN notes the important contributions of the many ASN members that led to this report, and applauds the efforts of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

As part of ASN’s trust initiative, ASN is pleased to share the following draft documents, Guiding Principles for ASN Relationships with Entities at Interest and Guiding Principles for Managing and Conducting Nutrition Research Funded by Entities at Interest, for the ASN membership’s review and feedback. These are in response to Recommendation #1: ASN should develop a rigorous, transparent approach to co-sponsoring and managing all activities financially supported by “entities and/or individuals at interest.” and Recommendation #4: ASN should develop guidelines for its members in managing and conducting nutrition research funded by entities at interest – often those with a financial stake in the outcomes of the funded work.

We appreciate feedback from the ASN membership on these draft documents. Please submit any feedback you may have at: https://nutrition.org/trust/ by Friday, August 21. The drafts will be revised further based on the input received and the ASN Board of Directors will have final review and approval before implementation by ASN. Additional documents resulting from ASN’s trust initiative will be shared for ASN member input following this initial review period. 

ASN Seeks Member Input on Proposed Options to Strengthen Nutrition Research

A white paper “Strengthening national nutrition research: Rationale and options for a new coordinated federal research effort and authority” published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition provides an in-depth review of the federal government’s current coordination and support of food and nutrition research. The paper identifies numerous potential strategies to further strengthen federal food and nutrition research and policy both at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and across the more than 10 federal departments and agencies that currently conduct or rely on federally supported nutrition research. Opportunities to strengthen nutrition research are of utmost importance ASN. We welcome your feedback on the conclusions and recommendations in the report, and any additional recommendations for ASN to consider strengthening federal nutrition research.

Visit https://nutrition.org/strengthen-nutrition-research/ to share your feedback on the potential options to strengthen nutrition research through Friday, August 21, 2020!

Thanks to the Dennis Bier, MD Young Career Editor, Kevin Klatt, AJCN is now on Twitter! Over 400 people began following the journal on Day 1 with these numbers climbing rapidly! Follow us at @AJCNutrition!

Congratulations to Bradley S Ferguson, University of Nevada Reno and Whitney L. Do, Emory University on the publication of their winning 2019 CDN Special Collections RIS Competition! This collection from the Nutrient-Gene Interaction Research Interest Section examines how genetic predisposition impacts circulating lycopene, the role for watermelon juice consumption in the regulation of genes that control lipid and xenobiotic metabolism, how vitamin D deficiency impacts liver metabolomics during the course of pregnancy, and includes a review of the impact of one-carbon meta-bolism in diet-epigenetic interactions.  Read more here!

One month left! Support your Research Interest Section (RIS) by Guest Editing a CDN-sponsored special collection! Cross-RIS proposals with ASN members and non-members as authors are encouraged! Apply here by September 14, 2020!

The Journal of Nutrition’s Editor-in-Chief, Teresa Davis, PhD, received both the Fellow Award and the Morrison Award from the American Society for Animal Science. The Fellow Award recognizes distinguished service to animal science and the livestock industry over a long period of time. The Morrison Award recognizes outstanding recent research that has been of direct importance in livestock production.

Public health guidelines should recommend reducing saturated fat consumption as much as possible

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For most nutrients, the minimum RDA is based on alleviating a clear deficiency condition, whereas higher intakes are often recommended to optimize specific health outcomes. Evidence is accumulating that similar logic should be applied to dietary recommendations for protein. This review highlights the benefits of higher protein diets to optimize health during aging, inactivity, bed rest, or metabolic dysfunction such as type 2 diabetes.

The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) and the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) are pleased to offer ASN-IFT Joint Membership to ASN Regular and Associate Members and IFT Premier Members, combining benefits from both organizations to provide enhanced resources, effective July 20, 2020. 

For a single membership fee, an individual can become a member of both organizations and have access to expanded member benefits from both ASN and IFT. Please visit nutrition.org/our-members/ for details or contact mem@nutrition.org with any questions.

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