Teresa Drake
Department Chairperson, Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., Health Education, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
M.S., Family and Consumer Sciences: Dietetics, Eastern Illinois University B.S., Chemistry, Illinois State UniversityBiography
Dr. Drake is a registered dietitian (RD) and master certified health education specialist (MCHES). She joined the department in 2013.
Teaching
Dr. Drake has taught a variety of courses in the department including Community Program Planning, Program Evaluation, Public Health Intervention Strategies, School Health Promotion, Sustainable Food Systems, and Matters of Life and Death. She tries to incorporate authentic experiences into all of her courses to provide students real-world learning and application.
Scholarship
Dr. Drake’s research interests include food insecurity, Health At Every Size® and non-dieting approaches to health, and scholarship of teaching and learning. She also enjoys mentoring student research. Recent scholarship includes:
Vollmer, R.L. & Drake, T. (2025). Opening and operating a nonprofit market on a college campus to address food insecurity: A process evaluation. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2025.2470966
Vollmer, R.L. & Drake, T. (2024). Guided reading questions as a scaffolding technique in a flipped graduate class. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 24(2), 18-32. doi:10.14434/josotl.v24i2.34447
Vollmer, R.L. & Drake, T. (2024). Comparison of undergraduate students’ experiences in a flipped course pre-pandemic and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interactive Learning Environments, 32(3), 1068-1078. Published online Aug 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2022.2110125
Vollmer, R.L. & Drake, T. (2023). Undergraduate and graduate students’ retrospective perception of flipped learning in dietetics curricula. Journal of Dietetic Education, 1(2), article 4. DOI: 10.26890/zido5204
Mooney, G., Drake, T., & Vollmer, R.L. (2023). A qualitative analysis of eating behaviors among food-insecure college students. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 55(7), 531-540. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2023.04.009
Fast, E., Schumacher, J.R., Lanier, J., Banning, J., Bardwell, A., Drake, T., & Vollmer, R. (2023). Development of a community food pantry for students of higher education. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 115(2), 43-48. https://doi.org/10.14307/JFCS115.2.43
Nigg, J.K., Vollmer, R.L., & Drake, T. (2021). “It just feels like I’m a kid back home, with dinner made for me and the snack cabinet full”: College students’ reflections on food-related experiences during the pandemic. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 113(3), 44-52. https://doi.org/10.14307/JFCS113.3.44
Chan, T., Drake, T., & Vollmer, R. (2020). A qualitative research study comparing nutrition advice communicated by registered dietitian and non-registered dietitian bloggers. Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 13(1), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2020.1749351
Vollmer, R.L. & Drake, T. (2020). Exploration of dietetics graduate students’ experience in a flipped course using learning reflections. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 52(4), 407-414. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2019.11.014
Hansen, S., Drake, T., & Vollmer, R.L. (2019). Perceptions of cooking education among high school students. Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 47(4), 359-374. https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.12305
Drake, T., Hunzicker, J.L., Schwend, K., & Rumba, P. (2018). Health-focused PDS partnerships: Putting the WSCC model into practice. PDS Partners: Linking Research to Practice, 13(4), 5-9.
Drake, T. & Ogletree, R.J. (2018). Development of the Health and Weight Attitudes Scale. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 50(5), 506-510. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2018.01.001
Service
Dr. Drake serves on multiple committees at the department, college and university levels including FCS Curriculum, EHS Strategic Planning, and University Senate. She reviews manuscripts for several journals, and conference abstracts for the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior and the Society for Public Health Education.
Licensures & Certifications
- Registered Dietitian (RD)
- Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)