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Where Do Oysters Come From?
Duxbury oyster farmer John Brawley bags some baby oysters, goes on a dredging run, and talks about the best time of year to eat oysters.
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To Peru, For a Cause
In summer 2015, Sargent undergraduate and graduate students embarked on a service learning trip to Peru. At an altitude of 11,000 feet, they experienced firsthand the traditional Andean way of life, from a remote farming village to the Inca capital [...]of Cusco.
Supervised by Sargent faculty, students had the opportunity to see health care at work in a developing country; they learned about traditional medicine and visited rural community clinics, as well as public and privately funded hospitals.
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Life on the Farm
They spent more than 30 years in Madison, Wis., before packing up and moving East. Relocating to Boston two years ago, they made a home in Kenmore Square, right under the Citgo sign. In that short time theyve settled in as members of the BU [...]community, Gina and Graham to many, but better known as Virginia Sapiro, dean of Arts & Sciences, and Graham Wilson, College of Arts & Sciences professor of political science.
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Maize & Malaria: An Economic Transformation
Prof. James McCann explains how an economic transformation lead to a transformation in agriculture and disease and what his five year Rockefeller Foundation study of the links between maize and malaria is doing about it.
More information including [...]the documentary "Maize & Malaria" is available at the Pardee Center multimedia page: /pardee/multimedia-library/2012-archive/maize-malaria-documentary/
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Ethiopia In Movement
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University Director ad interim James McCann led a four-person roundtable panel sponsored by the Pardee Center at the 18th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies [...]in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia on October 31-November 2nd. Ethiopia in Movement, made by award-wining Ethiopian filmmaker Aida Ashenafi captures the panelists in the heart of the city. Panelists include former Pardee Post-doctoral Fellow Heran Sereke-Brhan, Stefan Bruene, (Hamburg University and Intergovernmental Authority on Development), Masresha Fetene, Vice President for Research, (Addis Ababa University), and His Excellency Xavier Marchal, European Community Ambassador to Ethiopia. They raise issues that range from intellectual property, commercial farming versus conservation, use of longer-range perspectives to open dialogues between antagonistic state agenda, and the need for basic science education in regional higher education. /pardee/
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Young MacDonalds Hit the Farm
Two BU Today writers try to be farmers for a day. Jennifer Cermak (CAS'93, MED'94, '98), owner of Berlin Farms, shows them the ropes.
Read the story on BU Today:
/today/node/9232
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