Amrita Arcot | Penn State College of Health and Human Development

Amrita Arcot

Advisor, Alison Gernand
Micronutrients and Pregnancy Lab

Summary Statement

Amrita's research interests include gestational diabetes mellitus; placental morphology and histology; micronutrient deficiency; nutrition and pregnancy.

Department

Graduate Student

Education

Bachelor's of Science, Nutritional Sciences, Penn State University
Dietetic Internship, Tulane University
Health Informatics Certificate, Drexel University

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avr5374@psu.edu

Additional Information

Honors and Awards:

TRANSCEND Program in Maternal Child Health Nutrition Training Grant (2022-2023 and 2023-2024)
Mary Frances Picciano Endowment (2023)
NIH New Investigator Travel Award (2023)
Ruth L Pike Nutritional Sciences Graduate Fellowship (2022-2023)
NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship (2022-2023)
Woot-Tsuen Wu Leung Scholarship in Nutrition in the CHHD (2021-2022)
Ruth L Pike Nutritional Sciences Graduate Fellowship (2020-2021)
NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship (2020-2021)
NIH-Funded Clinical Translational Sciences Institute TL1 Summer Fellowship (2020)
John L Beard Endowment (2020)
CHHD Endowment Funds for Professional Funds for Professional Development/Dissertation Research (2020)
Fund for Excellence in Graduate Recruitment (2019-2020)