Dr. Liz Applegate, a nationally renowned expert on nutrition and fitness, is a faculty member of the Nutrition Department and has served as the Director of Sports Nutrition at the University of California, Davis. Her enthusiasm and informal style made her undergraduate nutrition classes the nation’s largest with enrollments exceeding 2500 annually. Dr. Applegate developed a fully online NUT10 course for use at all University of California campuses. She has received the Excellence in Education Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award, Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award from the University of California, and the 2016 United States Department of Agriculture Food and Agriculture Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award.
