Rate My Professor Heather Niemeler

Niemeier's research specializations center on the prevention and treatment of obesity and eating disorders, with her most recent work exploring acceptance-based treatment approaches for behavioral weight loss and investigating disordered eating attitudes and behaviors among college students. Her scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed publications such as "An acceptance-based behavioral intervention for weight loss" (2012), "Characteristics of adults with overweight/obesity and high internal disinhibition" (2017), and "Do food provisions packaged in single-servings reduce energy intake at breakfast?" (2009). Additionally, she has led initiatives to enhance inclusive teaching practices, such as the project "You are the Individual and We are All the Society: Personalizing Core 130," which updated syllabus language to be more inclusive and welcoming, incorporated activities to build classroom community like diversity bingo and social identities exercises, expanded content on racial and ethnic inequalities to include impacts of Covid-19 on diverse communities, hate crimes against various groups, and discrimination, and emphasized intersectional analyses of social identities including age, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ability status, and more.