Nobel Conference to Focus on Making Food Good

46th Annual Event Set for October 5-6 at Gustavus Adolphus College

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May 03, 2010, 08:30 ET

ST. PETER, Minn., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- From Food and Health to Food Security to Public Policy; from Taste to Activism to Agriculture, the 46th Annual Nobel Conference will explore "Making Food Good," Oct. 5-6 on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus in St. Peter, an hour outside of Minneapolis.

For more than four decades, Gustavus has organized and hosted the two-day Nobel Conference that links a general audience with the world's foremost scholars and researchers. The Nobel Conference, drawing thousands each year, is the first ongoing educational conference in the United States to have the official authorization of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.

"We are honored to have an association with the Nobel Foundation and to host this annual event bringing together some of the top minds in important scientific endeavors," said Jack R. Ohle, president of Gustavus Adolphus College. "Food is a subject that every American – every world citizen – can relate to and we anticipate one of the most intriguing Nobel Conference in its long history."

Seven distinguished presenters will keynote the event, annually held across the scenic campus with main events taking place at the College's hockey arena.

Bina Agarwal, Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Economic Growth at the University of Delhi, India
Linda Bartoshuk, Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science at the University of Florida, Gainesville
Cary Fowler, Executive Director of Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome, Italy
Jeffrey Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and HHMI Investigator at the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Director of the Starr Center for Human Genetics at The Rockefeller University in New York
Frances Moore Lappe, co-founder of the Small Planet Institute in Cambridge, Mass.
Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
Paul Thompson, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University, East Lansing

Tickets are available at gustavustickets.com or by calling 507-933-7520. Individual tickets range from $60-$100. High school and college student delegation rates are $40 for a block of 10 tickets. Full conference information is available at gustavus.edu/nobelconference.

Gustavus now offers the excitement of the Nobel Conference to students and interested adults from around the world. For those unable to attend the Nobel Conference, the entire conference will be webcast live at gustavus.edu/nobelconference.

About Gustavus Adolphus College

Established in 1862 by Swedish Lutheran immigrants, Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college that provides an undergraduate education of recognized excellence for more than 2,500 students. Following the dedication in 1963 of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Hall of Science at the College, the Nobel Foundation granted approval for an annual science conference to be held at the College, which continues to set a standard for timeliness, intellectual inquiry, and free debate of contemporary issues related to the natural and social sciences.

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