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Statewide survey could map how COVID-19 is affecting food security, economics
June 24, 2020 | KNKX
Research studying food security in WA state affected by COVID-19 is highlighted, featuring project leads Adam Drewnowski and Jennifer Otten. The study is conducted in partnership with Washington State University, Tacoma Community College, and partners in local, county and state governments.
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Is It Actually Safe to Host a BBQ This Summer?
June 16, 2020 | Chowhound
Anne-Marie Gloster is quoted offering expert advice on public health safety at barbecues and outdoor gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic this summer.
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Students honored with SPH Excellence Awards
June 12, 2020
Congratulations to our two Nutritional Science Program recipients, Emily Kwong and Anna Mowell who were honored with 2020 School of Public Health Excellence Awards, and annual recognition that spotlights exemplary faculty, staff and students. Winners were announced June 11 by the School in a congratulatory video. This year’s Nutritional Sciences student recipients have each demonstrated...
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Anne-Marie Gloster recognized for communicating public health
June 12, 2020
Anne-Marie Gloster, a lecturer and core faculty member in the Nutritional Sciences Program has been awarded the 2020 Communicating Public Health to the Public Award by the University of Washington School of Public Health. Gloster shares this honor with four other faculty members in the School of Public Health this year. The annual award recognizes...
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Celebrate UW Nutritional Sciences graduates at the SPH Graduation Celebration June 14
June 9, 2020
We invite all Nutritional Sciences Program students and their family and friends to join us this Sunday, June 14 at the University of Washington School of Public Health Virtual Ceremony to celebrate our graduates in the Class of 2020. Event at a Glance Date: Sunday, June 14, 2020 Times: Facebook watch party: 10:30 a.m. PDT...
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It’s time to rethink the disrupted US food system from the ground up
June 5, 2020 | The Conversation
Jennifer Otten and Sarah Collier, discuss a key vulnerability at the very foundation of the food system: soil. On farms and ranches across the U.S., the health of soil is seriously compromised today. The article covers what’s at stake if we don’t begin addressing this soil health as a key resource, and how we should go about it.
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Experts across campus discuss future of food supply system
June 4, 2020 | The UW Daily
A review of a UW experts panel discussing impacts on the food supply featuring core faculty members Jennifer Otten and Adam Drewnowski.
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Faculty and students present at Nutrition Live Online 2020
June 1, 2020
Four members from the Nutritional Sciences Program will present this week at a free online event this week called Nutrition Live Online 2020, an event sponsored by the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). Adam Drewnowski, director for Nutritional Sciences and the Center for Public Health Nutrition will participate in a panel on sustainable food systems,...
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Food Systems senior to be SPH gonfaloniere, alumni honored as Guardians of the Gonfalon
June 1, 2020 | School of Public Health
Esther Nguyen, a graduating senior of the Food Systems, Nutrition, a Health Major and Nutritional Sciences Program alumnae June Bartell (’79) and Kathy Kingen (’79) will be honored at the 2020 UW Commencement celebration.
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Student projects help local food resilience
May 28, 2020
This spring quarter, University of Washington undergraduates majoring in Food Systems, Nutrition and Health are putting systems-thinking into action by teaming up with a dozen Seattle-King County organizations on various community projects for their capstone focused on the theme of food system resilience. The forty-five students completing projects includes the first group of students to...
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