Shawn Arent – Center for Health and Human Performance at IFNH
Dining halls at Harvard and Stanford are using their kitchens as ‘living laboratories’ to change the eating habits of students
An unlikely group of scientists, chefs, and academics is banding together to transform the eating habits of college students… Known as the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative, the alliance aims to ditch the unhealthy, unsustainable foods commonly served in dining halls in favor of tasty, more plant-based offerigs. “Hopefully in five years, this will be mainstream. A new crop of students will come in and see a university with a healthy culture around food,” says Peggy Policastro, director of behavioral nutrition with Rutgers Dining Services.
An exercise scientist reveals the best time to do a cardio workout
Shawn Arent – Center for Health and Human Performance at IFNH
Sea levels could rise so much this century that they’ll unleash 25 times the number of destructive floods
Robert E. Kopp – Rutgers Energy Institute
A 27-year-old CEO named to the Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list gives his 2 best pieces of entrepreneurship advice
Michael Johnson – Alumnus-Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Countries are spending millions to control the weather — here’s why
This summer, China set aside $30 million for a controversial project that involves shooting salt-and-mineral-filled bullets into the sky… Whether the program worked or not is still a matter of debate. According to the FAS, its ‘effects were minimal.’ “The question is always, if you didn’t do that, would it have rained anyway?” Alan Robock, a distinguished professor of geophysics at the department of environmental science at Rutgers University, told Business Insider.
