When biochemistry senior Hong-En Chen first got involved with a student organization called Energy Hub, she knew she could bring something special to the table. […]

She’s picked vegetables on West Coast farms, worked to improve health, education and housing in immigrant communities on the Texas-Mexico border and, most recently, spent […]

Stella Salvo, a PhD candidate in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics, is passionate about international development. In 2012, she spent a month in Mali working […]

When CALS sophomore Logan Wells tells you he spends his spare time sawing logs, he doesn’t mean he’s catching up on sleep. He’s actually out […]

Shelbi Jentz knew that CALS would open her eyes to new ideas, but she didn’t think a whole new way of eating would be one […]

A couple of years after picking up cross-country skiing, food science major Tori Law noticed there wasn’t an energy bar designed for this particular sport. […]

Michael Crossley BS’11 remembers the experience that sealed the deal for his career choice. A local organic farmer’s spinach crops were under attack from a […]

He loves science, loves to dance. And, as the Dancing Mad Scientist, biochemistry senior Jeffrey Vinokur gets to do both at once. Vinokur’s hip-hop laboratory […]

When Alejandra Heurta announced her intention to go to graduate school to study agricultural science, she surprised her parents, native Mexicans who made their living […]

Sarah Jacquart, a doctoral student in nutritional sciences, leads GardenFit, a program designed to study and promote  the health of overweight youth. For eight weeks […]