The Consortium for the Advancement of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CATLS) celebrated its inaugural year with a Faculty Luncheon Series. During the Fall 2004 series, Speaking of Food, both faculty and staff joined in a series of collegial and well-received presentations including:

• Bal Ram Singh (Chemistry): How Food Makes Everyone a Real Scientist.

• Rebecca Hutchinson (Ceramics): Ceramic Dinnerware: An Encounter with the Maker and the Meal.

• Memory Holloway (Art History): Monet and Phantom Food

• Miriam O’Neal (English): The Gastronomy of Poetry: A Brief Reading of Food Poems as Ars Poetica  

• Kevin Stokesbury (SMAST) Sea Scallops: Fishing for Sustainable Abundance

• Amy Gorin (Psychology): Creating an Environment for Healthy Eating