Nutrition Career Mentorship Program Launches at OSU 2025-26
Moore Family Center launches Nutrition Career Mentorship Program for 2025-26, pairing students with nutrition professionals. Apply as mentor or mentee today.
We’re grateful to reflect back on a successful pilot nutrition career Q+A event with our first Moore Family Center career mentor and friend, Dr. Matt Kuchan. Matt was greeted with immense curiosity from our attending students, sparking lively conversations about pursuing passion, meaning and impact both in career and in life.
Matt’s central words of wisdom? Try everything and anything that piques your interest and don’t stray away from asking those in charge how they got there. Attendees learned about the qualities Matt considers essential for different paths of the nutrition profession, and how he found his way to the laboratory at Abbott.
We were excited to host students interested in Nutrition – from undergraduates starting to find their way, to graduate students planning for their next big career step. We look forward to expanding our mentor base into more sectors of the nutrition profession in the near future.
This fall term, the Moore Family Center is partnering with the CATALYST mentorship program to offer the Nutrition Career Mentorship Program as a non-credit course series for the 2025-26 school year. The Nutrition Career Mentorship Program will pair nutrition students with working professionals with an aim to expand our mentee’s career horizons ahead of graduation.
Our mentees enrolled in the new course will be guided through leadership and career exploration assignments with their mentors while continuing to build their networks with the very professionals they may work beside in the future.
Are you a nutrition professional looking to give back and lend a guiding hand to the next generation of leaders? Being a mentor is likely much easier than you think. We are currently recruiting mentors! To learn more, contact Adam Choate, MFC outreach coordinator.
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