People and Food

It takes a community such as Ohio Wesleyan’s to raise awareness about food matters here and around the world.

  • Budding Gardeners – Cultivating and collaborating on vegetable gardens grown by children at OWU’s Early Childhood Center.
  • Back to Basics – Hundreds of years ago, sustainable agriculture was practiced and prized by people of Kosrae Island of Micronesia. As Professor Jim Peoples explains, modernization is taking a heavy toll on their lives and lifestyles.
  • Global Environmental Change and Food Production – That’s what Professor Laurie Anderson and her students studied in Brazil, as part of their recent Travel-Learning course. She shares more about her research in this Magazine.
  • Feeding a Hungry World – Professor Mary Howard’s classes on “Health and Illness” and “African Peoples” came to life for her students in Tanzania last spring, as they discovered connections among poverty, illness, and malnutrition.
  • Food Security: Politics and Policies – When politics, war, and climate change affect food production, it is the people who suffer.
  • Pushing for Progress – “I believe that public service is about making government work best for those who are less fortunate.” During her 17 years in Congress, representing farm families and others in southern Missouri’s eighth Congressional District, Jo Ann Emerson ’72 has done just that.
  • Taking a Bite Out of Hunger – Restaurateur Howard Greenstone ’83 is feeding bodies, souls, and spirits every day.

Plus, Our Regular Departments:

Leader’s Letter

From the JAYwalk

In Writing

  • Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925
  • Observances

 

Gifts and Gratitude

  • A Life Well Lived
  • Building Bridges

Bishop Battles

  • Season to Remember
  • When More is Better
  • High Wattage Success

Alumni Happenings

  • Never Say Never
  • Remembering Lolly
  • The Business and Pleasure of Food
  • Calendar of Events
  • Class Notes

The Final Word

  • The Wonders and Complexities of Food – Chris Fink, OWU’s assistant professor of health and human kinetics, explains what food means on campus—and beyond.