Tanner Talks Kickoff Season with Quest for Food
A piece of the 21st century pie — people everywhere are clamoring for their own life-sustaining morsel. But water worries, pesticide practices, production problems, distribution dilemmas and financial fears seem to conspire against assuring a hungry world there will be enough to eat.
Noelle Cockett, executive vice president and provost for Utah State University, has long been researching answers to the question of how to feed 21st century populations.
Cockett will bring her expertise to the Utah State University College of Humanities and Social Science’s popular Tanner Talks when she kicks off the 2014-15 lecture series season with a look into the future of food production.
Years of teaching and research in animal genetics and agriculture have helped Cockett develop deep insight into the problem of feeding the world’s growing population amidst the demise of small farms along with water, land and other issues. What has happened to Jefferson’s agrarian ideal? Has it died? Or has it simply morphed into something necessarily more modern?
The public is invited to attend this free event, the first in a series of addresses revolving around the topic “Food: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” The first program takes place from 2–3:30 p.m. Tues., Sept. 30, in Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101.
Tanner Talks are made possible through a grant from the O.C. Tanner Charitable Trust. Utah State University is one of three higher education institutions in the state endowed to create a lecture series that honor the educational legacy of Obert Tanner.
The next scheduled Tanner Talks offering is Oct. 2 from 3-4 p.m. in Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101. The topic is “Food in Renaissance Art” presented by Luciano Cheles, professor of Italian art at the University of Poitiers, France. Cheles will decipher “food codes” used as symbolism in famous (and not so famous) works of art.
To find out more about the entire Tanner Talks series, see the CHaSS website.
Contact: Kristin Middaugh, communications director, CHaSS, Kristin.middaugh@usu.edu
USU's Executive Vice President and Provost Noelle E. Cockett opens the 'Tanner Talks’ series with a presentation Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2-3:30 p.m., Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101.
The second talk features Luciano Cheles Oct. 2 from 3-4 p.m. in Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101 with "Food in Renaissance Art." Cheles will decipher “food codes” used as symbolism in famous (and not so famous) works of art.
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