Sunday, April 10, 2011

Chatham creates School of Sustainability and the Environment - Business First of Columbus:

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The school is expected to provide undergraduate, graduate and professiona programs to prepare students to identifyt and solve challenges related to the environmentand sustainability. The Universithy will begin a search fora dean, and will housw the new school's operations at its Eden Hall Farm Campus in north of Pittsburgh. The administration anticipates that the programs offered through the Schoolk will both attract new students and drive the Eden Hall Farm master plan.
The first program offered through the new school willbe Chatham's newesgt graduate program, the Master of Arts in Food The degree is designes to provide students with "a deep understandingg of the issues surrounding food such as the environmentaol costs of food production and cultural issues, sustainability of communities, and safetgy of the food supply," according to a releasee from the school. Classes will beginj in spring 2010 at the Eden Hall Farm campuzs and the Shadyside campusin Pittsburgh's East End, and will included courses such as agricultural production food processing, industrialization and waste, food, sustainabilituy and health, and food and culture.

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