As it does each year, the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies recognizes its students with awards for outstanding achievements in academics, research, service and other areas of scholarship.
This year, on Friday, May 8th 2020, The Department of Nutrition and Food Studies united virtually to present awards to our undergraduate and graduate students and to celebrate all their significant accomplishments over the past academic year.
This meeting was a modification to the usual in-person end of the year ceremony which was converted to a virtual ceremony this year in order to manage the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 50 members of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies along with their families and friends, came together to attend the ceremony. The NFS awardees were celebrated for their wide range of impressive academic and community engagement accomplishments.
They have made great contributions in their areas of excellence, and we look forward to hearing about the value they contribute to the communities where they live and work. To all of our students, and especially the Class of 2020, we know you are ready to embrace the world that needs all you have to offer!
Award winners in the Food Studies program:
Chef’s Prize – Edward Crossman
This is awarded to a Food Studies major or minor who demonstrates exceptional ability in the culinary arts. This ability should also include food justice and community engagement goals of the Food Studies Program.
Food Studies Research Award – Maggie Toczko
This is awarded to a Food Studies major or minor who demonstrates exceptional ability in the culinary arts. This ability should also include food justice and community engagement goals of the Food Studies Program.
Food Studies Justice Award – Deborah Orieta
This is awarded to a Food Studies major or minor who demonstrates the ability to successfully address food justice-related issues through a variety of mediums.
Food Studies Community Engagement Award – Assata Cradle-Morgan
This is awarded to a Food Studies major or minor who demonstrates the ability to create or implement progressive food-based initiatives that engage diverse politics locally, nationally or internationally.
Food Studies Culture and Commensality Award – Neena Hussey
This is awarded is given to the Food Studies major who has expanded the Food Studies program to new audiences by sharing food knowledge and practice through social activism
Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana Human Rights Awards:
Best Undergraduate Paper – Sierra Endreny
Best Graduate Papers – Chanel Gaude, Elizabeth Pickard, Gabriel Roth
This award is given to the best undergraduate and graduate papers on the human right to food, nutrition, and/or health. Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana, Brazilian nutritionist and right to adequate food activist and writer, left a powerful message of hope and belief in the essential goodness of each and every person, of the need to take on our individual and collective responsibilities to ensure the welfare and dignity of all and for each and everyone, that all struggles are important and must be respected, and, most of all, that the voices of the affected must be heard.
