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Fast Food for Thought

10 tiny talks about food and agriculture
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
6:00-7:30 PM
1040 Dana Natural Resources Building Map
Join us! The 3rd annual “Fast Food for Thought” will bring together 10 interdisciplinary faculty members from across campus to give a series of fast-paced talks (5 minutes each) related to food and/or agriculture.

Alison Miller, SPH (Health Behavior & Health Education)
“But I Want the Cookie! Eating and Self Regulation in Toddlers”

Aniket Aga, School of Natural Resources and Environment
“Poor Monsanto”

Jean DuRussel-Weston, UM Health System
“Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools”

Jeremy Moghatder, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Campus Farm
“Farmer as Career Choice in the 3rd Millennium”

Josh Newell, School of Natural Resources and Environment
“How Will Scaling-up Urban Agriculture Impact Food, Energy, and Water Dynamics?”

Julia Wolfson, SPH (Health Management and Policy)
“What’s Cooking in Today’s Food System?”

Lisa Young, LSA Anthropology
“Learning from Farmers’ Stories”

Mark Wilson, LSA EEB and SPH (Epidemiology)
“Interactions of Food Production and Infectious Diseases in the Developing World”

Meha Jain, School of Natural Resources and Environment
“Satellites for Sustainable Agriculture”

Monica Dus, LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
“Let Them Eat Cake: The Effect of Sugar on the Brain”
Building: Dana Natural Resources Building
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Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Anthropology, Ecology, Environment, Food, Free, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Justice, Sustainability
Source: Happening @ Michigan from UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School for Environment & Sustainability, Epidemiology, Program in the Environment (PitE), Department of Health Management & Policy, Department of Anthropology, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Program in Biology