Fast Food for Thought
The 4th 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. Delicious reception featuring produce from the UM Campus Farm to follow.
2017 Speakers:
Jake Allgeier, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology -- “Fish Pee: An Asset for Improving Coastal Food Sustainability?”
Alicia Cohen, Department of Family Medicine -- “Food As Medicine: Increasing Access to Fruits and Vegetables in Low-Income Communities”
Ashley Gearheardt, Psychology -- “Can Food be Addictive?”
Mary Carol Hunter, School for Environment and Sustainability -- “Cultivating Aesthetics to Fertilize Urban Farming”
Mark Hunter, School for Environment and Sustainability & Ecology and Evolutionary Biology -- “Monarch Butterflies, Herbicides, and our Food System”
Greg Keoleian, School for Environment and Sustainability -- “Counting Calories and Carbon Emissions of your Diet”
Steven Mankouche, Architecture & Karen Peterson, School of Public Health -- “Is Healthy Food Bad for Me?”
Will Tarpeh, Engineering -- “Pee-cycling: Creating Sustainable Fertilizer from Urine”
John Vandermeer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology -- “The Agriculture Climate Change Connection”