School of Public Health

Education

• M.Ed. at Pennsylvania State University, 1986
• B.A. at Pennsylvania State University, 1980

Background

• Registered Dietitian

• SOTL Leadership Grant, Supporting Faculty for Food for Thought: An Action Agenda for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, awarded April 2006

• Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Initiative Faculty, 2004-present

• Treasurer, Indiana Nutrition Council, 2002-present

• Purdue University Extension Specialist, Foods and Nutrition, 1996-1998

• Project Manager, Penn State Nutrition Center, 1988-1996

• Foreign Expert (English), FuXin Mining Institute, The People's Republic of China, 1986-1988

Research

My HPER responsibilities involve teaching and administration, not research. Nevertheless, I am very interested in the pedagogy of teaching, especially service learning as an adjunct to in-classroom teaching, and in the intersection of nutrition with environmental stewardship.

Along these lines, I am currently involved in research to develop and evaluate effective service learning projects as a pedagogical tool across a range of academic disciplines. Using food as a unifying theme, we will be integrating service learning into classes ranging from nutrition and dietetics to biology, English, fine arts, anthropology, and environmental science and policy. Our goals are to develop initial guidelines for best practices in service learning partnerships in the community and to develop appropriate assessment tools for the evaluation of student learning in these settings.

Publications

(2006, May). Service-Learning Faculty poster presented at COPSL Summer Research Institute.

Achterberg, C. & Getty, V. M. (1998, May/June). From land to landfill: A systems perspective--use of an organizing theme in an interdisciplinary multimedia curriculum. Journal of Nutrition Education, 33 (3), 178C.

Auld, G. W., Achterberg, C. L., Getty, V. M., & Durrwachter, J. G. (1994). Misconceptions about fats and cholesterol: implications for dietary guidelines. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 33, 15-25.

Achterberg, C., Gregoire, J., & Getty, V. (1989). Evaluation of 'Dietary Guidelines and Your Diet,' a series of Short nutrition education materials. HNIS No. 53-3198-7-35, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Final Report.

Courses Recently Taught

HPER N120 Introduction to Foods Lab

HPER N321 and N322 Food Service Series

HPER N331 Life Cycle Nutrition

HPER N336 Community Nutrition

HPER N401 Issues in Dietetics