Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Extension
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1571
Healthy Heart Beats
July-September 2008
Vol 30, Issue 3
Spotlight
Susan M. Gould, Ph.D., R.D.
Sue Gould, Ph.D., R.D., earned her bachelor's degree in Physical Education and Health from Montana State University. She obtained her master's and doctorate degrees from Colorado State University's Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN) with a focus on using computer technology to reach low-income and Hispanic audiences. She assisted in adapting the nutrition education program, La Cocina Saludable, to a bilingual interactive multimedia format. During the early 2000s, more than 30 kiosk computer systems were available in Colorado agencies serving low-income persons to deliver this innovative nutrition education.
Colorado Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) offers Food Stamp Program participants and other low-income individuals opportunities to learn about how to eat healthfully, prepare safe food, and use food dollars economically. As one of the state coordinators, Sue works to facilitate this effort for nutrition educators around Colorado.
Sue's current primary focus with FSNE is to coordinate the evaluation, curriculum, and training components. With a new mandatory federal reporting system, she is working to facilitate process and outcome data collection and compilation while minimizing participant, educator, and administrator burden. She reviews curricula and nutrition education resources to determine appropriateness and implementation strategies along with evaluation. Based on formative research, one of the resources she is working on is a bilingual menus and recipes web page for FSNE audiences in collaboration with students, CSU Extension Family and Consumer agents, and FSNE educators. She also works with the FSNE team to coordinate additional training opportunities.
Since the fall of 2004 Sue also has taught academic courses in the departments of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Health and Exercise Science, and Business Management. In her current role in FSNE, she focuses on FSHN courses, particularly Nutritional Epidemiology and Food Applications and Systems. Based on these academic experiences, she is exploring the possible use of classroom technology with FSNE participants in a variety of settings from traditional class series to parent nights at neighborhood schools. For further information regarding FSNE, call Sue at 970-491-7040. In the future, look for updates to the FSNE web page, which will be linkable from the FSHN website, http://www.fshn.cahs.colostate.edu.
A native Coloradan, Sue likes to bike, rock-climb, ski, and snowboard with her husband, Mike, and daughter, Martine, who is currently a student at the University of Denver. Sue also treasures quiet time reading, cooking, sewing, and working in the yard.
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