I lived in one of three university-managed co-ops for all of my undergrad — Delta House at 905 South Goodwin Ave. in Urbana.
It was all-female, and we had schedules for cooking, shopping, cleaning and being the “safety officer” when we got to ring the internal doorbell for a fire drill.
Shared by Dr. M. Yanina Pepino, Assistant Professor of Nutrition
The Race to Redesign Sugar
Forget artificial sweeteners. Researchers are now developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories. But tricking our biology is no easy feat.
URBANA, Ill. (WAND) - Everybody deserves to eat, and a cafe at the University of Illinois is making it possible for anyone to get a warm meal.
Bevier Cafe is a student-run cafe at the U of I, where students get a chance to gets hands-on learning in the food industry.
"Students get a chance to experiential learning, to really run a food service operation and learn the ins and outs of how to do that," said Carter Phillips, the quantity food manager at the U of I.
Unique challenges call for unique solutions. At Bevier Café, we want to make sure that everybody eats. We will be testing a new pay-what-you-can model in Bevier Café for the remainder of the fall 2020 semester. to continue teaching foodservice operations management to FSHN 340 students, continue to serve delicious food to hungry patrons, and take real action toward fighting on-campus food insecurity.
Bevier Café will continue to serve the same delicious menu, but with four distinct payment options.
1. Pay the suggested price (menu price)
Going to the National Restaurant Association (NRA) show has always been on Caroline Santucci’s college bucket list. Because of the generosity of a 2012 hospitality management alumnus Tony Morano, six students, including Santucci, were able to attend this year’s NRA show.
URBANA, Ill. — Treating breast tumors with two cancer drugs simultaneously may prevent endocrine resistance by attacking the disease along two separate gene pathways, scientists at the University of Illinois found in a new study. Read more.
URBANA, Ill. — The quest to satisfy the sweet tooth without adding to the waistline has a new weapon in its arsenal: a strain of yeast that can metabolize lactose, the sugar in dairy products, into tagatose, a natural sweetener with less than half the calories of table sugar.
URBANA, Ill. — Scientists at the University of Illinois have found that free fatty acids in the blood appear to boost proliferation and growth of breast cancer cells. The finding could help explain obese women’s elevated risk of developing breast cancer after menopause.
URBANA, Ill. – For most preschool-age children, picky eating is just a normal part of growing up. But for others, behaviors such as insisting on only eating their favorite food item—think chicken nuggets at every meal—or refusing to try something new might lead to the risk of being over- or underweight, gastrointestinal distress, or other eating disorders later in childhood.