Events Calendar

Faculty are invited to attend the fourth of six informal discussions to share and generate ideas about how they might use How the Other Half Eats in their course or program.

Faculty are invited to attend the fifth of six informal discussions to share and generate ideas about how they might use How the Other Half Eats in their course or program.

Faculty are invited to the sixth of six informal discussions to share and generate ideas about how they might use How the Other Half Eats in their course or program.

September is Hunger Action Month, and it is also the start of our year-long consideration of issues of food, hunger, and food insecurity in conjunction with WSU’s use of How the Other Half Eats as the 2024-2025 WSU common reading book. Come see this 2019 film by Geeta Gandbhir that puts these issues squarely in […]

First-Year Focus and UNIV 104 students, faculty, and staff are invited to a special afternoon at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU for festive music and refreshments, as well as activities and conversation in response to the museum’s exhibit, The Art of Food. Hosted by WSU First-Year Programs.

Why do we love foods like stinky cheese or pungent kimchi? In this presentation, Soo-Yuen Lee, director of the School of Food Science and sensory scientist, will discuss the mechanism of olfaction (smell) and experience various fermented foods.  Come and enjoy learning about the fermentation process as well as taste test a few beloved fermented […]

Join us for a Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) Public Square on the topic of food insecurity for college students. Using the exhibition The Art of Food and WSU’s common reading book How the Other Half Eats as points of departure, this moderated discussion will focus on food insecurity among college students throughout the state […]

This year WSU is undertaking a year-long consideration of issues of food, hunger, and food insecurity in conjunction with use of Priya Fielding Singh’s How the Other Half Eats as the 2024-2025 common reading book. Come see this 2019 documentary by Geeta Gandbhir that puts these issues squarely in the context of campus life through […]

This year WSU is undertaking a year-long consideration of issues of food, hunger, and food insecurity in conjunction with use of Priya Fielding Singh’s How the Other Half Eats as the 2024-2025 Common Reading. Come see this 2019 documentary by Geeta Gandbhir that puts these issues squarely in the context of campus life through its […]

Do the factors for and experiences of food insecurity differ based on environment? What are the effects of food insecurity for rural populations? This talk by WSU sociologist Sarah Whitely looks in-depth at the extent of food insecurity in the rural setting, the unique factors contributing to this issue, the coping strategies used by rural […]