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“Everybody Eats: Experiences in Food Production and Consumption in the Brazos Valley”
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| Project Leader: | Katy Carlisle katycarlisle12@tamu.edu Biomedical Sciences |
| Faculty Mentor: |
Dr. Sarah Gatson, Ph.D.
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Meeting Times:
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TBD
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Team Size:
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5 (Team Full)
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Students will be exposed to topics in the sociology of religion, culture, race & ethnicity, and food. Hands-on, participant-observation driven research will accumulate community service hours and hopefully improve nutrition access for food insecure populations of Brazos County. Students will also have the opportunity to develop a research poster for the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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Team Needs:
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Any student with an interest in developing nutrition information material for local food pantries is welcome to participate. Spanish language skills are particularly valuable in the research project.
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Description:
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This service-learning team will attend food pantry operation in Brazos County with an objective of identifying areas of nutritional knowledge that can be improved. Team members will participate in the volunteer activities of the food pantry to better understand the operation, and collaborate with volunteers on creating nutrition interventions in whatever form is most appropriate. This team will also collaborate with the “Overchurched, Underfed” research project and attend weekly meetings about the research.
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