Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Studies at New York University, holding the position of Chair from 1988-2003. She accepted the Paulette Goddard Professorship in 2004, and became Professor Emerita in 2017. She has also been a Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. In 1996 Nestle founded the food studies program at New York University with food consultant Clark Wolf. Nestle hoped to raise public awareness of food and its role in culture, society, and personal nutrition. In this, she not only succeeded but also inspired other universities to launch their own programs. Nestle is the author of numerous articles in professional publications and has won awards for a number of her books. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health was first published in 2002, winning a James Beard Literary Award, a Association of American Publishers Award for Public Health, and a Harry Chapin Media Award for Best Book. Safe Food (2003) won the Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award from the Steinhardt School of Education in 2004. In 2007 What to Eat won the James Beard Foundation Award for best food reference book and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Better Life Award. In 2012, Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics (co-authored with Dr. Malden Nesheim) won a book of the year award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). Eat, Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics won an IACP award in 2014. Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for Writing and Literature and the Jane Grigson Award for distinguished scholarship from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Nestle wrote the "Food Matters" column for the San Francisco Chronicle from 2008 to 2013. She blogs at foodpolitics.com, and tweets from @marionnestle. She has appeared in the documentary films Super Size Me (2004), Food, Inc. (2008), Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry (2008), Killer at Large (2008), In Organic We Trust (2012), A Place at the Table (2012), Fed Up (2014), In Defense of Food (2015), and Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! (2017). Nestle received the American Public Health Association's Food and Nutrition Section Award for Excellence in Dietary Guidance in 1994 and was named Nutrition Educator of the Year by Eating Well magazine in 1997. Nestle received the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service from Bard