Posts by: davalla

Is all this snow making you hungry?

Why not try one of Sargent Choice‘s fabulous recipes for dinner?  And while you are at it, “like” them on Facebook…

From Joan Salge Blake:

New School Lunch Guidelines: Hold the Fries, Please According to USDA Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, the school lunch program that serves more than 30 million children daily is likely to get healthier very soon.  The USDA is proposing significant changes to improve the nutritional quality of the school meals that are served to America’s youth. […]

Haiti One Year Later

Enrique Silva, Assistant Professor and Faculty Coordinator in City Planning and Urban Affairs at MET, has visited Haiti four times since the earthquake that took place on January 12, 2010.  Here are his thoughts:

Isabel Wilkerson discusses “The Warmth of Other Suns” today

COM will host Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, noted author and BU Visiting Professor of Journalism Isabel Wilkerson to discuss her latest book The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration today at 4:30 PM at the Photonics Center.  The event will be moderated by John Stauffer, Chairman of the American Civilization Program […]

Calcium & Vitamin D; Got Milk?

Geena Davis at the GSU Tonight

The Friends of the Libraries will host Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis for a reception and lecture  tonight at 6:00 PM in Metcalf Hall at the GSU. Davis will reflect on her career and discuss the work of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. The evening will be dedicated to the memory of Charles Edward “Ted” […]

Ronan Tynan Peforms and Lectures tonight

The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center is hosting an evening with Irish Tenor Ronan Tynan tonight at the Tsai Performance Center.  Tynan is an accomplished athlete, winning multiple medals while competing at the Paralympics, a physician in his home country of Ireland and most known for his accomplishments as an opera singer.  The event will […]

SED Dean Reacts to Midterm Election Results

Book Panel Discussion Tonight

SED Professor Scott Seider will participate in a book panel discussion tonight at the United Lutheran Church (66 Winthrop Street, Cambridge) at 7 PM in promotion of his first book Shelter: Where Harvard Meets the Homeless.  The panel will include James Shearer, Co-founder of Spare Change News, Reverend John Finley, IV,  Founding Director of Epiphany […]

Trying the Twinkie diet? Not so fast…

As a registered dietitian and nutrition professor at Boston University, I have known for decades, that when it comes to weight loss, the magic two words are:  Calories Count. If you consume less calories than you need, you will lose weight. When overweight individuals lose weight, short term health indicators often improve.  For example, a […]