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  Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Check out the awesome ways some of Food and Society Certificate recipients are biting into the food system, in Athens, in Columbus, in Washington, New […]

Food Studies Fall 2018 Newsletter New Name: OHIO Student Farm The Food Studies theme and the Environmental & Plant Biology Department are excited to announce the official name change of the former Plant Biology Research Gardens to the OHIO Student Farm. Located on West State Street, this site is still […]

Ohio University alum and 2017 Food and Society Certificate recipient Alexandria Polanosky ’17 produced a video, Seed Saving in the Andean Context, for the “Seed Saving Practices in an Andean Context” project. Polansky earned a B.S. in Visual Communication from Scripps College of Communication. This video highlights the field research conducted […]

Both recipients of the Ohio University Sociology & Anthropology Department’s Outstanding Senior Awards are Food Studies theme students. Joy Kostansek and Patrick Fahey were selected by the department faculty due to their exemplary commitment to their studies. Both Kostansek and Fahey will be receiving the Food and Society Certificate upon […]

The Food Studies theme hosts Vermont author and organic movement elder Grace Gershuny discussing “Organic Farming for the Planet” on Oct. 19. at 4 p.m. in Alden 319. She also will participate in a panel discussion following a showing of the film Food Evolution at 7 p.m. at the Athena […]

Student Joy Kostansek began her participation in the prestigious Oxfam International’s Change Initiative program over the summer through a training conference in Boston. “I was one of 38 students across the country accepted into Oxfam’s Change Initiative program,” says Kostansek. Oxfam America is a global organization committed to fighting injustices […]

Congratulations to the first students to receive the Food and Society Certificate:  Sasha Estrella-Jones- HTC Sociology and Anthropology, Marianne Jacobs- HSP Environmental Nutrition, Alexandria Polanosky- BS Visual Communication, Raina Schoonover- BS Urban Planning and Sustainability, and Rachel Wiley- BSS Food and Culture. Good luck on your future endeavors! If you’re […]