Food science is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on solving real-world problems around the production of food. Modern consumers want safe, nutritious, and easily available food. Food scientists help farmers, grocers, and other businesses meet those demands. The science of food involves studying: Food compositionPreparationProcessingPreservationEffects on human health Food scientists work to ensure that there…
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An Exploration of Material Culture: A Case Study of Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education & Training
The following is an excerpt from the collection of critical essays from The Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice by Le’Passion Darby, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign February 9, 2020. After a fifteen-hour outbound flight from Chicago, I had finally landed in Sydney, Australia. My objective? To observe, photograph, and record material culture…
An urgent need exists to investigate the cross-cultural differences in technology privacy attitudes and behaviors
While privacy regulation exists in almost every culture, the specific behavioral and psychological mechanisms that people use to regulate privacy boundaries are culturally unique. Since the 1960s, when privacy mostly concerned physical access to an individual’s surroundings and private space, researchers had found that people in different cultures are universally aware and capable of regulating…
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