Dr. Meredith Niles, Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences, has been awarded the Bickford Endowed Professorship in Nutrition and Food Sciences, as reported by the University of Vermont. "I am so pleased that Meredith received this...
As an organizer and researcher, Hasmik is passionate about supporting food sovereignty movements in California and Armenia. She approaches this work with lenses from both the natural sciences and feminist studies.
Summer examines how increasingly digital landscapes affect workers and ecologies, broadening discussions about the future of work, race, and the limits of data in the face of the climate crisis.
Sydney is a researcher and community organizer based in Eastern Connecticut. Her work focuses on the intersection of farmer viability, food access and environmental sustainability.
Alejandra is a transnational emerging scholar cross-pollinating Indigenous ways of knowing, agroecology, and ecological economics to conserve stingless honeybees.
Selena combines data analysis with a commitment to community health, ecological restoration, and environmental stewardship to develop innovative solutions for healthy forests in California.
Timothy Krupnik co-authored a recent study in Plos Water that explores intensifying crop production in coastal Bangladesh without negative impacts. They found there is considerable potential to “expand irrigated crop production without...
"I think this is a hugely overlooked area that contributes to people's food security and nutrition, potentially, but we don't actually talk about very much in the U.S.," Niles said.
