FYS- Food, Nutrition & Health

Do you want to live long and prosper? Well, foods and diets are the easiest thing to change, yet one of the most impactful factors to your health. In this class, you will evaluate different types of diet plans, find out what vitamins and minerals do in our body, and interpret food labels. You will also examine how different foods are harvested, processed, and delivered to your table. You will see food from a food scientist?s perspective and investigate different experimental designs to learn and promote various food products.

FYS- Food, Nutrition & Health

Do you want to live long and prosper? Well, foods and diets are the easiest thing to change, yet one of the most impactful factors to your health. In this class, you will evaluate different types of diet plans, find out what vitamins and minerals do in our body, and interpret food labels. You will also examine how different foods are harvested, processed, and delivered to your table. You will see food from a food scientist?s perspective and investigate different experimental designs to learn and promote various food products.

FYS- Food, Nutrition & Health

Do you want to live long and prosper? Well, foods and diets are the easiest thing to change, yet one of the most impactful factors to your health. In this class, you will evaluate different types of diet plans, find out what vitamins and minerals do in our body, and interpret food labels. You will also examine how different foods are harvested, processed, and delivered to your table. You will see food from a food scientist?s perspective and investigate different experimental designs to learn and promote various food products.

FYS-Our Probabilistic Universe

Do you want to get good at poker using math? Do you find investing in the stock market intriguing? Are you inquisitive about the uncertainty in the universe and how physics helps us understand it better? Or maybe you are interested in certain philosophical insights to quench your curiosity? We?ll learn all these interesting topics while also applying them together in class! This course is an amalgam of all the things above, with the goal to understand how probability and critical thinking can be used in real-life situations to optimize the chances of a desirable outcome.

FYS- The Art of Thinking

What do mathematicians do? Are they a bunch of dull people who invented their own symbolic weird language so that no other person can understand what they talk about? Is the fundamental goal of mathematics just to be able to understand the arithmetic of numbers so that we can do accounting, or is it to be able to understand shapes so that we can share a birthday cake equally?

From Choice to Justice

Abortion rights continue to be contested in the U.S. and throughout the world. Since it was legalized in the U.S. in 1973, there have been significant erosions in abortion rights and access, and today, federal protections to legal abortion are poised to end opening the opportunity for direct challenges and outright bans through state laws.

Andrew Kretschmar

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Primary Title:  
Associate Director of Libraries, Resource Sharing
Institution:  
Smith College
Department:  
Libraries
Email Address:  
akretschmar@smith.edu
Telephone:  
+1 (413) 5852927

Brittany A Brathwaite

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SSW CBARE Instructor
Additional Title:  
SSW CE Instructor
Institution:  
Smith College
Department:  
School for Social Work
Additional Department:  
School for Social Work
Email Address:  
bbrathwaite@smith.edu

Rachel Hestrin

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Assistant Professor
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
Stockbridge School of Agriculture
Email Address:  
rhestrin@umass.edu

Mohammad Emal Aslami

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Asst Dean Acad HR Libraries
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
University Libraries
Email Address:  
maslami@umass.edu
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