“When I see this crowd – and the diversity of the crowd – it’s obvious that food and agriculture are maybe the most compelling example of an academic or intellectual discipline that has a role to play in every department and every division on campus.”
– Kelly Caylor, Professor, CEE; Director, ENV Program
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Engaged alums gather food community
Dinner at Eno Terra, after the first Princeton Studies Food conference. A sponsor, Gordon Douglas ’55 MD, at right in photo, along with his wife, Sheila Mahoney, talked with (from left) Lyndon Estes, WWS-STEP associate research scholar; Kristi Wiedemann of Sustainability at Princeton; Anthony Shu, former business manager of Spoon University-Princeton (now at study abroad); and Tim Searchinger, research scholar at WWS-STEP.
Princeton Studies Food conference
Tim Searchinger, research scholar at WWS-STEP, and Amy Lerner, post-doc research fellow, organized the first annual Princeton Studies Conference.
Princeton Studies Food launches!
Stop by Frist 100 on Friday, 4:30-6:30 p.m. to explore Princeton Studies Food, a new hub and community that gathers information related to food, agriculture and supporting systems on campus, among alumni and in the community.
Student groups scheduled to attend include Spoon University-Princeton, Princeton Greening Dining, and the Princeton Garden Project.
At about 5 p.m., Kelly Caylor, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the ENV program; Gordon Douglas, ’55 MD, an alum; and representatives from the Office of Sustainability and from Campus Dining will briefly discuss the myriad roles of food on campus and how we can use food as a tool for exploration of academics, community, self-reliance and enjoyment.