Monday, June 4, 2012

Chatham creates School of Sustainability and the Environment - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The school is expected to provide graduate and professional programs to prepare studentse to identify and solve challenges related to the environmentyand sustainability. The University will begin a search for a and will house thenew school's operations at its Eden Hall Farm Campuse in Richland, north of Pittsburgh. The administratio anticipates that the programs offerecd through the School will both attract new studentxs and drive the Eden HallFarm Campus’ masterr plan. The first program offered throughy the new school willbe Chatham's newest graduated program, the Master of Arts in Food Studies.
The degree is designed to provide studentswith "a deep understandingb of the issues surroundinh food such as the environmental costs of food production and distribution, cultural issues, sustainability of communities, and safety of the food supply," accordinh to a release from the school. Classes will begim in spring 2010 at the Eden Hall Farm campus and the Shadyside campusin Pittsburgh's East End, and will include courses such as agricultural production food processing, industrialization and waste, food, sustainabilitgy and health, and food and culture.

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