Andrew Deihl Presents Research at Pittsburgh Conference

2015 Jul 22

Andrew Deihl of Elysburg, Pa. joined five other students from the E.A.T. Research Group to present research at the annual conference meeting for the Association of the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS). The conference, dedicated to the theme "Bridging the Past, Cultivating the Future," brought nearly 500 academics and food professionals to the campus of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pa. from June 24-28.

Deihl is pursuing a bachelor of science degree in business administration.

The conference gave students the opportunity to meet other scholars in the field of food studies, tour Pittsburgh's urban agriculture sites, visit the city's culinary hotspots, and present their year long research projects. Members of the E.A.T. group submitted their research and panel ideas for acceptance in early 2015. Katheryn O'Hara presented her paper, "Economies of Scale," which researched and analyzed human labor abuses in the global fish industry. Devon McKain and Kayla McKain presented the results of their year-long dining hall intervention program entitled "The Whole Grain and Nothing but the Grain." Their project evaluated and encouraged whole grain consumption in the dining hall.

Andrew Deihl, Victoria Gluszko, and Raeann La Flame presented their individual projects as a part of a panel discussion with Bill Allman and Georg Holz of Metz Culinary Management. Their panel discussed the ways that the culture of a dining hall can be changed through innovative programming and on-site interventions.

Dr. Robert Valgenti, director of the E.A.T. Research Group, also presented his philosophical research in an essay entitled "The Hungriest Concept: Metabolizing Biopolitics Through Gastronomy."