Shadai Martin

Assistant Professor, Family and Consumer Science

Discipline: Human Nutrition & Dietetic Science


Shadai Martin is a Registered Dietitian and received her Ph.D. in Nutrition and Exercise Science from South Dakota State University. Her research interests include rural childhood obesity and the school nutrition environment, both in rural communities and the college/universities setting. Shadai believes her role as an educator is to assist students with understanding emotionally and intellectually the relationship between diet, health, and disease and also to build students’ self-efficacy through a supportive learning environment.

Shadai Martin
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Box 30003, MSC 3470
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8003
Phone: 575-646-2420
Fax: 575-646-1889
Email: ssmartin@nmsu.edu