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The Food Studies theme congratulates Daniel Williams on receiving the best poster award at this year’s conference of the Society for Economic Botany and the Society of Ethnobiology. Williams is a second-year candidate in the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs’ Master of Science in Environmental Studies program. The […]

by Kristin Distel Ten Ohio University students are spending their summer gaining invaluable hands-on experience as they intern at Wayne National Forest. The majority of the interns’ time will be spent assisting with two major Wayne National Forest initiatives—the Bailey’s Mountain Bike Project, where student interns are “integral” to the […]

Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, presents “Renewed explorations of the Mid-Pleistocene site, Isimila, Tanzania” at a joint meeting this month of the Paleoanthropology Society and American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Austin, Texas. The Paleoanthropology Society was founded in 1992. It recognizes that paleoanthropology is multidisciplinary in nature […]

The new Anthropological Sciences Laboratories in the Central Classroom building are open, and research is in full swing on collections of artifacts that help researchers reconstruct ancient environments—including those nearby in Southeastern Ohio. Faculty and students from Sociology, Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and the Heritage College of Medicine attended an […]

By Dawn Bikowski Director of the English Language Improvement Program How do the seed-saving practices in Southeast Ohio compare with the struggles and triumphs of food sovereignty in the Andes of Ecuador? Dr. Rommel Montúfar (Biological Sciences, Pontíficia Universidad Católica del Ecuador), and Michael Ayala (Agricultural Sciences, Universidad Central del […]

By Dawn Bikowski Director of the English Language Improvement Program Ohio University faculty traveled to Ecuador in December as part of a research and community capacity-building project involving local agro-biodiversity and food sovereignty in two regions—Southeastern Ohio and the Andes outside of Quito. The project, “Facilitating & Sharing International Community-Based […]

The Food Studies theme presents “Lessons from Ecuador: Food Sovereignty and Seed-Saving in Andean Communities” on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 5 p.m. in Alden Library Room 319, the Friends of the Library Room. Please join Food Studies in welcoming Ecuadorian researchers to learn about their work with Andean communities investigating […]