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Community-Centered Research: An Interview with Expert, Meg Burke
Community-Centered Research: An Interview with Expert, Meg Burke by Kelsey Mackert Communities often struggle to solve complex challenges in silos. A climate disaster hits, and a city’s emergency management team […]
Take a look behind the scenes at our co-design process through the Convergent Futures project
Take a look behind the scenes at our co-design process through the Convergent Futures project by Kelsey Mackert How does design play a role in a research network focused on […]
Year 4 in Review
We’re celebrating 4 years of collaboration, innovation, and impact across the RECIPES Network! This year, we’ve worked alongside 155 incredible contributors: 82 students, 38 faculty, 20 staff, and 5 postdoctoral […]
Meet Katie Malarkey – a student researching agricultural plastics
By Kelsey Mackert Katie Malarkey is a PhD student in Sustainability at the Rochester Institute of Technology, researching U.S. agricultural plastic usage. With 5 years and counting on this topic, […]
Driving Change: Volunteer Management and Engagement in Food Recovery Operations
Food recovery operations in urban areas depend on volunteers to collect, repackage, and distribute surplus food. RECIPES is partnering with Manna Food Center in Montgomery County, MD, and Food Rescue […]
Tackling Food Waste in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Every year, vacation destinations generate significant amounts of food waste, leading to both environmental and economic concerns. The hospitality sector, particularly hotels and resorts, often faces challenges in managing surplus […]
Welcoming the new cohort of RECIPES Fellows!
We are excited to introduce four outstanding new Fellows joining RECIPES in our mission to advance food waste research and sustainable solutions! Dr. Trishnee Bhurosy – Assistant Professor, University of […]
Have agricultural and applied economists lost sight of the land-grant mission? A Textual Analysis of Presidential Addresses and Invited Papers from 1919-2022
Established to serve public needs in agriculture, education, and research, land grants are being reflected upon by agricultural economists with relation to their role. This study analyzes 4,001 invited papers […]
Climate Leadership in Chicago’s Food Retail Sector
Students in the Spring 2024 “Design for Climate Leadership: Food+Waste” workshop at Illinois Institute of Technology volunteer at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Over the past 12 months, Illinois Institute […]
A Tale of Tenets and Tensions: Our journey to create a common language and collective understanding of “convergence” across the RECIPES Network.
Illustration by Steffanie Espat Long, long ago (back in 2021), in a land not so far away, the NSF SRS RN grant was bestowed upon the RECIPES network. Although our […]