Free tickets for Tufts students to April Food4Thought fest The Sustainable CORE Fellows are helping support the 2025 Food 4 Thought Festival, brought to you by Food 4 Thought Innovations, an […]

What does it mean to "learn from food waste"? The theme for this year’s Tufts Food Systems Symposium is “Learning from Food Waste,” an approach that challenges the tendency to focus on […]

Friedman School courses and Tisch College fellowships As we look ahead to the new year (and summer! because winter, lalalalalala), there are some opportunities for Tufts undergrads interested in […]

After the symposium: still unpacking meat! There was so much to think about in our April 8 food symposium, and we’re glad to have captured the event on video. You can find the link and […]

Faculty and others across all four schools of Tufts University (Arts, Sciences and Engineering; the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine; the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; and the School of […]

Mark your calendar now for the return of the Tufts Food Systems Symposium on Friday, April 8 from 1-3 pm. More details will be added here as they’re confirmed.

Given the continued uncertainty about COVID […]

For those getting close to the “what’s next?” moment of graduation, here’s a good recent list of food studies graduate programs in the US and elsewhere, with a few other programs thrown in for good measure. Thanks […]

Join us on Friday, November 27 at 3 pm (EST) for a screening of the recent film Gather from director Sanjay Rawal and the First Nations Development Institute, followed by a virtual discussion with Chef Nephi […]

Teams and projects from graduate and undergraduate students were awarded prizes through the Food and Nutrition Innovation Institute’s annual Food and Nutrition Entrepreneurship competition. A food hub, a food […]

Two powerful voices from the food sovereignty/food justice movement will be speaking in dialogue this Thursday (Oct 8) at 2 pm on Zoom as part of the annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures at the Schumacher Center for a […]

A new study from researchers at the Friedman School asks which US cities could potentially feed themselves with food produced within about 150 miles.

It’s a good starting-point for a very complicated calculus. […]

Here’s some guidance and good advice from Patti Klos, Director of Dining and Business Services, as we start into this unusual semester.

The Environmental Studies Program and the Agriculture Food and Environment Program are excited to welcome Dr. Kevin Cody as the inaugural Hoch Cunningham Professor of the Practice in Food Systems.
Kevin is […]

What would it take to nurture and strengthen our food systems–and the resource bases they depend on–as we move into an era of climate instability and disruption? A one-day conference this Wednesday will take a […]

Here’s a listing what’s on deck for spring classes relating to food, nutrition, agriculture, and more. Friedman School courses will be added as soon as they’re available!

The Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic at the Harvard Law School will be hosting a panel discussion focusing on the tremendous loss of land among black farmers over the past century and what that has meant for […]

Are you an early riser? Have an hour or so to spare in your schedule on a Thursday morning? Are you an expert corn-shucker? (If not, read on anyway–it’s not hard to learn!)

Thursday, Oct 3, 2019 is the […]

Leah Penniman of SoulFire Farm will be speaking at the Friedman School’s noontime Speaker Series on Sept 18 from 12:15 to 1:15 pm. For those on the Medford campus who aren’t able to get downtown for this, there […]

We’ve probably all been at the food-related event where a lot of good leftover food got scraped into the compost (or worse yet, the garbage) at the end of the day, or the sustainability conference with the huge […]