Nobel Conference Blog

Year: 2010

  • Nestle’s Perspective in New England Journal of Medicine

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    mkoomen

    Nestle is an expert at synthesizing information around food in a manner that is readable, informative and enlightening. A recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine featured her Perspective on the subject of calorie labeling. (New England Journal of Medicine 2010;362:2343-2345). Nestle weighs in almost daily on her blog: www.foodpolitics.com She writes the…

  • Bina Agarwal to Head International Economics Society

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    heldke

    Bina Agarwal has been named president elect of the International Society for Environmental Economics, the first woman to hold this position. The ISEE is “dedicated to advancing understanding of the relationships among ecological, social, and economic systems for the mutual well-being of nature and people.” Agarwal was one of the founding members of the Indian…

  • Nestle’s new book: Feed Your Pet Right

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    mkoomen

    Marion Nestle is no stranger to the media spotlight. Her most recently published book Feed Your Pet Right “is an entertaining and informative examination of the booming pet food industry—its history, constituent companies, products, and marketing practices—written by two experts who took an objective look at the science behind pet food industry practices and claims.” …

  • Marion Nestle, Dewey Prize Winner

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    heldke

    Marion Nestle was recently awarded the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service, at commencement ceremonies at the Bard Prison Initiative, one of the only privately-funded prison education programs in existence in the country. Students of the program had started a prison garden, with food going to supply both the prison and local food shelves.…

  • Dr. Linda Bartoshuk profiled in Science

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    mferrag

    The June 18 issue of Science contains a biographical profile featuring Dr Linda Bartoshuk who will speak at Nobel 2010, Making Food Good.  The article highlights her pathway to becoming a psychophysicist, the discovery of “supertasters”, and recent efforts to reconfigure the subjective scale employed to assess such attributes as pain and taste. Science article…

  • Biodiversity and Food Security

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    heldke

    At a Capitol Hill briefing on June 16 sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “Paul Gepts, a geneticist and professor of agronomy at the University of California, Davis, warned that inadequate crop biodiversity in the United States could hamstring American farmers as climate change intensifies.” This topic will be sure to…

  • Cary Fowler protests “the largest intentional, preventable loss of crop diversity in my lifetime”

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    heldke

    Construction on a new housing development in Russia jeopardizes the world’s largest collection of fruits and berries, according to an article in The Independent that quotes Cary Fowler.

  • Agarwal receives Leontief Prize from Tufts University

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    heldke

    Bina Agarwal was named one of the 2010 winners of the Leontief Prize, given by the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University. “The Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought recognizes economists whose work, like that of the institute and Leontief himself, combines theoretical and empirical research that promotes a more…

  • Linda Bartoshuk: Tomato Flavor Saver

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    heldke

    A story on the May 28 edition of Morning Edition featured an interview with Linda Bartoshuk, the University of Florida psychologist who will appear as part of Nobel 2010, “Making Food Good.” Bartoshuk, well known for her discovery of “super tasters” is currently working with scientists at the University to develop tomatoes that have both…