President Kim Benston signing Real Food challend

Taking the Real Food Challenge

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Following a Plenary resolution, President Kim Benston signed a pledge that the College would move toward spending 20% of its food budget on ethical, local, sustainable food by the year 2020. 

In front of gathered students, faculty, and staff, the president signed the campus commitment alongside members of ETHOS, the student food-activism group that worked to propose and pass the Good Food Resolution at Spring Plenary. Photo: Caleb Eckert '17

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Where They're Headed: Alana Thurston ’16

Chemistry major Alana Thurston ’16 will work in a joint position as a laboratory and field technician for the environmental biogeochemistry section of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research, a department within Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Sciences.

Alana spent the summer in Alaska at the Toolik Lake field station. "Where They're Headed" is a blog series detailing the post-graduation plans of the Class of 2016.

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