Hands-On Activities

Global Food Systems: Fresh Produce

"Food safety begins on the farm," Rolando Gonzalez, the quality assurance manager for Bix Produce Company, told students in the Global Food Systems: Fresh Produce class during a recent outing to the St. Paul business.

Mapping Public Health

Russ Daly spends some of his time as an assistant professor of veterinary science at South Dakota State University examining the state's patterns of disease in food animals--particularly beef and dairy cattle. That's why Daly, also a veterinarian, decided to enroll in the institute course Spatial Methods in Epidemiology and Public Health.

Vector-borne Disease: Going to the Source

To learn about how local mosquito populations are controlled to protect Minnesotans, students in the Vector Field Ecology course spent a day with staff members from the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District (MMCD).