Meet Your Dietitian

Jessica Airola,MBA, RDN, LDN

Looking for support with special dietary needs, achieving your individual wellness goals, or fueling an active lifestyle? Jessica, your campus dietitian is here to help. She is a Registered Dietitian who believes that a well-nourished body is fundamental to optimizing health, well-being, and academic success. To contact Jessica for consultations or questions, email us at jessica.airola@sodexo.com.

Talk to Us about Your Food Allergies and Diet Needs! Students with special dietary needs are expected to communicate their dietary restrictions and requirements to the Dining Team. We take pride in serving you wholesome ingredients, preparing recipes accurately and providing nutritional analysis and ingredient statements through our online menus and nutrition calculator. From our general manager to our front line servers, we work carefully to address food allergies, celiac diets, or other special dietary needs. We want to meet one-on-one with anyone who has individual dining needs to ensure that your dining experience is safe, delicious, and social.

The Performance Plate dining station at University Center Dining Hall provides best-in-class nutritional offerings that allow student athletes, intramural athletes, performers, sports club participants, and health enthusiasts to refuel, recover and recharge.

The built-to-order plates are athlete-focused to provide optimized nutrition, delicious flavors and balanced offers. All foods served at this station are also prepared with ingredients that do not contain peanuts or tree nuts.

While performance plate is designed to allow any individual an easy and convenient way to fuel performance, we understand our students have individual dietary needs. Please contact our Regional Dietitian, Jessica Airola at jessica.airola@sodexo.com if you have any food allergy/special diet concerns.

Mindful is Sodexo's health & wellness approach that helps you make healthy choices second nature! We are committed to creating healthy environments for our customers. Central to this effort is providing healthy, nutritious foods. The result of this initiative is an approach that focuses on transparency of ingredients, delicious food, satisfying portions and clarity in message so that you can make Mindful choices!

Mindful offerings meet stringent nutritional criteria based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Each meal part is limited in calories, has fewer than 30% of calories as fat, fewer than 10 % of calories as saturated fat, and is restricted in sodium, and cholesterol. Look for the Mindful icon to indulge in the healthy and delicious items offered at each meal.