Research Interests: 
Causal inference in nutritional epidemiology; diet/lifestyle factors and the prevention ofcoloncancer; role of cyco-oxygenase-2 and inducible nitric oxide synthesis in colorectal tumorigenesis

Teaching Interests:  
Clinical nutrition; nutritional biochemistry

Courses: 

Undergraduate Advising:  Dietetics

Graduate Advising:  Human Nutrition

Publications:

Wilson, T. and Hord, N.G. Design and construction of an internet-based course in food science. Topics in Clinical Nutrition, (in press). 

Hord, N.G. (1999) Dietary factors, genetic susceptibilities, and colon cancer risk: a brief review Topics in Clinical Nutrition, 14: 31-38..

Hord, N.G., Mei, J.M., Winterstein, D., Donald, S. and Phang, J.M. (1999) Differential expression of nitric oxide synthase II and prostaglandin endoperoxide H synthase-2 in conditionally immortal mouse colon epithelial cells contrasting in Apc genotype. Carcinogenesis 20: 737-740.

Singh, S. S., Hord, N. G., and Perdew, G. H. (1996) Characterization of the activated form of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in the nucleus of HeLa cells in the absence of exogenous ligand. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 329: 47-55.