{"id":109286,"date":"2026-06-03T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=109286"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:59:13","slug":"uri-graduate-student-to-present-ground-breaking-research-on-ingestive-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/uri-graduate-student-to-present-ground-breaking-research-on-ingestive-behaviors\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student to present ground-breaking research on ingestive behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 3, 2026 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student Adeleke Justin Akinkurolere will present ground-breaking research on ingestive behaviors at NUTRITION 2026, an international gathering of nutrition professionals on July 25-28 in National Harbor, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Ph.D. student in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Health Sciences<\/a>, with a specialization in nutrition, Akinkurolere is a finalist in the American Society for Nutrition\u2019s Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Competition. His poster on \u201cRelationships Between Water Sipping Microstructure and Food Intake in Adults\u201d ranked in the top 10% of the nearly 750 submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poster describes how multimodal wearable sensors can be used to detect and analyze ingestive behaviors. Akinkurolere became a collaborator on the research project in the fall of 2024 as a graduate exchange student from Italy\u2019s University of Calabria.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Adeleke Justin Akinkurolere uses sensors on his wrist and jaw to collect data while chewing on a snack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The research team included Kathleen Melanson, 溏心vlog免费B站 nutrition professor; Theodore Walls, 溏心vlog免费B站 psychology professor; Nathan DeSalvo, 溏心vlog免费B站 psychology graduate student; and Professor Edison Thomaz and graduate student Cody Arvonen from The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Cockrell School of Engineering. The group\u2019s use of digital video and inertial motion sensors to understand the microstructure of ingestive behavior is detailed in an article published in the journal Nutrients<\/em><\/a> in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melanson advised Akinkurolere when he was an exchange student and continued in that role after Akinkurolere joined the Ph.D. program and Melanson\u2019s Human Energy Balance Laboratory in fall 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAdeleke has been involved in every phase of this work, including Institutional Review Board submission, participant recruitment, data collection, protocol management, and data analysis,\u201d said Melanson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The professor described what makes Akinkurolere\u2019s research different from other studies on ingestive behaviors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo date, research on ingestive behaviors has mainly focused on just food or just beverages, but Adeleke is considering both together in multi-course meals,\u201d said Melanson. \u201cBy coupling this with machine-learning-enabled wearable technology, his research will help move this area of study forward with capabilities that were not previously possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akinkurolere\u2019s project will be judged on originality and significance, clarity, methodological rigor, quality of results, and the strength of the major take\u2011home message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy goal is to demonstrate how sipping behaviors might manage the speed and amount of food we consume, hence enhancing dietary evaluation and promoting tailored nutrition recommendations,\u201d said Akinkurolere, who is from Ondo State in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akinkurolere expects to complete his Ph.D. in spring 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter I graduate, I hope to continue in academia while also contributing to the food and nutrition industry, particularly in areas related to dietary monitoring, functional foods, and eating\u2011behavior research,\u201d said Akinkurolere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 3, 2026 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student Adeleke Justin Akinkurolere will present ground-breaking research on ingestive behaviors at NUTRITION 2026, an international gathering of nutrition professionals on July 25-28 in National Harbor, Maryland. A Ph.D. student in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Health Sciences, with a specialization in nutrition, Akinkurolere is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":109287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,1914,1905],"class_list":["post-109286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-health-sciences","tag-graduate","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109291,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109286\/revisions\/109291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}