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Pia Chaparro

Project 2025 Calls for Major Cuts to the US Nutrition Safety Net

August 28, 2024 | Civil Eats

Civil Eats spoke with Assistant Professor Pia Chapparro about the potential devastating impacts that Project 2025 could have on food security and hunger if SNAP work requirements were tightened. Chapparo cites existing research and said, “Research shows that SNAP participation reduces food insecurity but does not act a disincentive to work. Moreover, research shows that the work requirements don’t lead to increased employment.”

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Anna Fogel

The health benefits of fruits and vegetables: taste the rainbow

August 12, 2024 | The Whole U

UW Medicine Dietitian and alumna (MPH/GCPD ’22) Anna Fogel breaks down the health benefits of fruits and vegetables in an article published by The Whole U. Fogel give a dietitian’s perspective on the health benefits of getting a variety in your diet, as well as the benefits by color.

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Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health faculty promotions in 2024

July 19, 2024

Congratulations to Michelle Averill, Anne Lund, and Jennifer Otten, core faculty in the University of Washington Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health program in the UW School of Public Health, who have received promotions effective July 1, 2024. Michelle Averill Promoted to Teaching Professor Michelle Averill has been promoted from associate teaching professor to teaching professor....

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Aimee Allen and Lauren Perkins

Students recognized for 2024 leadership and service awards

July 17, 2024

Congratulations to University of Washington Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health students Aimee Allen and Lauren Perkins who have received 2024 program awards for their excellence in leadership and service.  Aimee Allen Recipient of the 2024 Carrie Cheney Student Leadership Award  Aimee Allen, a student in the MS and RDN training program, is the 2024 recipient...

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Jennifer Otten

Jennifer Otten elected president of Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society

June 10, 2024

University of Washington faculty member Jennifer Otten has been elected the incoming president of the Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), a professional organization which provides an international forum to engage in the cross-disciplinary study of food, agriculture, and health, as well as an opportunity for examining the values that underlie various visions of...

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Undergraduate students in the UW Food Systems major visit the Rainier Community Center's urban garden in southeast Seattle as part of their spring capstone project

How food systems undergraduates are designing innovative hydroponic farming methods for urban community gardens

June 10, 2024

iUrban Teen partnered with the University of Washington School of Public Health Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health program to find an answer to this question. The answer will help with iUrban Teen’s goal of growing thousands of pounds of leafy greens and vegetables for their unhoused community neighbors and will provide a space for high school-aged youth underrepresented in STEM careers to study environmental and agricultural science.

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Split screen of two portraits - student recipients of 2024 SPH Excellence awards

Students honored with 2024 School of Public Health Excellence Awards

May 14, 2024

Congratulations to Carlos Morales and Kang Ho, students in the Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health (FSNH) Program who were honored at the 2024 School of Public Health Excellence Awards. The Excellence Awards are given annually, spotlighting exemplary faculty, staff and students working in the School. Winners were publicly recognized and celebrated at an event held...

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Winter capstone projects focus on addressing food security at UW

May 13, 2024

In winter quarter 2024, University of Washington students studying Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health focused on capstone projects that aimed to better understand and address the critical needs facing college students with food insecurity, with a primary focus on the UW Seattle campus.

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UW Undergraduate Research Symposium May 17, 2024

Food Systems majors to present at UW Undergraduate Research Symposium

May 13, 2024

The 27th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Washington will take place on the UW Seattle campus on Friday, May 17, 2024.  Three undergraduate seniors who are majoring in Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health will present poster sessions at the upcoming UW Undergraduate Symposium. This event is organized by the Office of Undergraduate...

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Economics of Food Systems, autumn 2024 course, UW, Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health

Economics of Food Systems offered as new course for autumn 2024

April 30, 2024

How is our food system shaped by the choices of consumers, retailers, farmers, and fish harvesters?   If you’re interested in food and food policy, NUTR 490/FISH 497B Special Topics: Economics of Food Systems is a new undergraduate course offered in autumn 2024 by the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, in conjunction...

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