We have four departments containing more than 25 centers, institutes, and labs in areas ranging from health and nutrition to finance and biotechnology. Many are interdisciplinary and bring together faculty and students to work on complex issues.
Departments
Foods and Nutrition
We prepare you for a career in health care, education, industry, or government. Our expertise ranges from public education and outreach to molecular pathways. We offer a variety of research opportunities encompassing community, clinical and basic sciences.
Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
Leading-edge teaching, research, and outreach improves economic and financial well-being for families and individuals and communities. We prepare future leaders and entrepreneurs.
Human Development and Family Science
Our students work in communities across Georgia and beyond, doing parent education, planning programs for youth, working in hospitals with medically fragile children, and helping families make choices that improve their lives.
Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors
Prepare for a career in retail, residential interior design, or manufacturing. Our expertise ranges from merchandising and design to polymer, fiber, and textile science. We offer internships, education abroad, research, and service learning.
Offices
- Business and Finance Office
- Dean's Office
- Development and Alumni Relations
- Office of Technology and Instructional Services
- Student Success and Advising Center
Institutes/Centers/Clinics
- ASPIRE Clinic
- Institute on Human Development and Disability
- Youth Development Institute
- Center for Economic Education
- Center for Family Research
- Child Development Lab at The McPhaul Center
- Housing and Demographics Research Center
- Life Course, Intergenerational Interactions, Family Networks and Human Engagement
- National Center for Home Food Preservation
Laboratories
- Biochemistry of Metabolism Laboratory
- Bioactive Compounds and Health Research Laboratory
- Bone and Body Composition Laboratory
- Childhood Obesity/Nutrition Intervention Laboratory
- Community Nutrition Laboratory
- Couples and Relationship Enrichment (CARE) Laboratory
- Customer Experience Learning Lab
- Family and Community Resilience Lab
- Food Quality Research Laboratory
- Free Radical and Nutritional Genetics Laboratory
- Gastrointestinal Neurophysiology Laboratory
- Anne Barge Historic Clothing and Textile Collection
- Human Nutrition Laboratory
- LIFE Lab
- Maternal and Child Nutrition Laboratory
- Mechanisms of Aging and Longevity Laboratory
- Micronutrient Proteomic Research Lab
- Nonwoven Functional Materials Lab
- NanoStructured Materials Lab
- Nutritional Neuroscience Laboratory
- Product Design and Development Laboratory
- Social Determinants of Child Development Lab
- Textile Processing and Testing Laboratory