Skip to content

Category: foodSyndicate content

NSF Extends Funding for Research

January 26, 2010

Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere might indirectly fertilize the ocean with nitrogen in places that are now poor in this essential nutrient.


Neighborhood Restaurants Strike Gold

September 21, 2009

Every year Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold releases his list of 99 "Essential L.A. Restaurants" in LA Weekly.


Student Uses Fellowship to Link Costa Rican Farms and L.A. Classroom

September 14, 2009

This year, the fourth-graders at the Dolores Mission School in East Los Angeles will get a new approach to math, science and history because one  of their teachers, Nicole Hill, studied the agricultural practices of coffee farmers in Costa Rica this summer.  How are coffee farms relevant to elementa


In Memoriam: Jane O’Brien Dart, 90

September 14, 2009

Jane O'Brien Dart, wife of former USC trustee Justin W. Dart, died at her home in Pebble Beach on April 8 after a lengthy illness. She was 90.


International conference focuses on challenges faced by women in rural areas every day

September 10, 2009

Like other similar academic gatherings, the Triennial Rural Women's Studies Conference on Sept. 24-27 at Indiana University Bloomington will feature scholars and policymakers who will present papers and participate in panel discussions.


Engineering Professors Play a Role in Strengthening Teaching in Public Schools

September 9, 2009

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute fellows visit
Engineering professor, Eric Dufresne’s, lab as part of
his “Science and Engineering in the Kitchen” seminar.

“Science and Engineering in the Kitchen” is not a class assistant professor of


Occidental College and Villaraigosa Promote Better Access to Good Food

September 1, 2009

This Thursday, Occidental College’s Urban and Environmental Policy Institute (UEPI) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will announce the city’s new Food Policy Task Force at “30 Years and Growing,” a celebration of 30 years of farmers’ markets in Los Angeles.


IU Alumni Association expands Hoosier Village, the "ultimate IU tailgate destination"

August 27, 2009

Football season means tailgate season -- and where better to tailgate before all Indiana University home football games than at the ultimate IU tailgate destination, Hoosier Village?


Consumer Innovators Know Few Boundaries

August 25, 2009

As the world marketplace expands, a new study shows how marketers can more shrewdly channel their resources to target "consumer innovators," people who are the most likely to adopt a new technology or manufactured good, when launching a product worldwide.


MEDIA ADVISORY: IU freshman move-in day Aug. 26

August 24, 2009

Indiana University Bloomington's residence halls open at 8 a.m., Wednesday (Aug. 26), for Student Move-In Day, marking the beginning of Welcome Week 2009. While fall classes don't begin until Monday, Aug.


Learn More

Think your organization's news belongs here? Let's talk.