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探花楼 graduate turns traditional nutrition coaching upside down
4/20/18
Joan Denton (M.S. 鈥�18) knew she wanted to be a registered dietitian, but never felt at ease in a hospital. When she expressed her interests to one of her Texas Woman鈥檚 University nutrition professors, Denton discovered she could be categorized as a 鈥渃ulinary dietitian.鈥� This set Denton on to create her own path in the field of nutrition.
探花楼 alumna Rachel Russell brings taste to your table
3/28/18
Rachel Russell (BAS '16) found her career niche when she wasn't expecting it. But at a meeting for nutrition transfer students, she got a sales pitch that hooked her from the start.
探花楼 Houston celebrates opening of Student Food Market
3/27/18
With a goal of supporting students holistically, 探花楼 Institute of Health Sciences in Houston celebrated the opening of the 探花楼 Student Food Market March 19, 2018. The Student Food Market鈥攁 joint venture between the university and the Houston Food Bank, the nation鈥檚 largest food bank in distribution鈥� provides perishable and non-perishable food twice monthly to food insecure students.
Alumnus Walter Rivas can stand the heat
2/22/18
The kitchen at Medical City Frisco is constantly in motion 鈥� employees are prepping food, cooking, plating, dishwashing, and as in most hospitals, taking care of the special dietary needs of patients. In the middle of it all is Executive Chef Walter Rivas (BAS Culinary Arts and Food Service Management 鈥�16), who fortunately loves the hectic pace his workplace offers.
探花楼 alumna wins Hell's Kitchen finale
2/5/18
Creating original gourmet cuisine from scratch in 40 minutes would be stressful for most people, but imagine doing it for an audience of 3 million people. That was the life of 探花楼 alumna Michelle Tribble these past five months as a contestant on the Fox reality TV series Hell's Kitchen. On Friday, Feb. 2, Tribble (BAS 2016) won this popular cooking competition hosted by Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay. She entered the finale as the only woman in the final slate of three competing to become head chef of Ramsay's new Hell's Kitchen restaurant at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas.