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National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2022
Nutrition insecurity is especially seen among historically underserved populations, such as those with limited financial resources. Funded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and conducted by Cooperative Extension through land-grant institutions in all U.S. states and territories and the District of Columbia, the…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Food, Hunger, Well Being
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Bauer, Denise; Beaulieu, Elizabeth; Wobbe, Kristin – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
Creating meaningful professional development opportunities for general education faculty can be particularly challenging at professionally-focused institutions where teaching liberal arts courses is sometimes viewed merely as a service requirement. Committing to sustained professional development for general education faculty can lead to…
Descriptors: Faculty, Development, Communities of Practice, Liberal Arts
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Rowat, Amy C.; Sinha, Naveen N.; Sörensen, Pia M.; Campàs, Otger; Castells, Pere; Rosenberg, Daniel; Brenner, Michael P.; Weitz, David A. – Physics Education, 2014
Cooking is a tangible, familiar, and delicious tool for teaching physics, which is easy to implement in a university setting. Through our courses at Harvard and UCLA, each year we are engaging hundreds of undergraduate students, primarily non-science majors, in science concepts and the scientific research process. We find that weekly lectures by…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Nonmajors