Research Interests: 
Diet related chronic disease risk factors and issues population differences with regard to a special interest in Type 2 Diabetes. Elderly nutrition concerns, Community nutrition intervention programs, international nutrition monitoring and problem solving

Teaching Interests:  
Community nutrition

Courses: 

Undergraduate Advising:  Dietetics

Graduate Advising:  Human Nutrition

Publications:

Ralston PA., Lamikanra VT and LJ Weatherspoon. 1998. “Mentoring Minority Students for the Food and Nutritional Sciences: A Cooperative Program”  Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 90(2): 50-55.

Weatherspoon LJ, Kumanyika SK, Ludlow R. and DA Schatz. 1994 Glycemic Control in a Sample of Black and White Patients with Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in North Central Florida, Diabetes Care, 17(10): 1148-1153.