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Chef Geoff: Changing up the menu for kids
“We have to be better tomorrow than we were today,” says Chef Geoff Tracy, owner of four restaurants and manager at a fifth. While he refers to the service his provides, his words also contribute to a wider picture: a movement to change they way society consumes food. He has set out a goal to [...]
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Students from around the world will be reporting and writing news features from the San Francisco Bay area this week and next. The 19 high schoolers will write about the Berkeley farmers’ markets, Giants baseball, traditional, for-profit publications (San Francisco Chronicle) and new non-profit models (the Bay Citizen). Interviews will range from people on the [...]
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- If there were ever one word to describe Ted Hobart, dedication would be it. Hobart is the outreach coordinator for Whitman-Walker Clinic's AIDS Walk Washington, a charity 5K run and walk in downtown D.C. As an avid AIDS activist, Hobart takes his campaigning very seriously; he sits in the Tavern dining hall at American University Friday at a small table surrounded by flyers and hand-outs advertising the big event three months before it is set to take place. [Read More] #
- Walking out of the Mary Graydon Center on the American University campus on a typical Friday morning during the school year, one might see students hustling to get to class on time with bookbags over their shoulders and a bagel in their mouths. [Read More] #
- Summer on the American University campus can be described in one word: hot. Despite that, grounds keeper Juan Reyes and summer intern Kenny Sui toil outside in the glare Friday. At first glance the two seem to have the same job. To the untrained eye it may seem that their work in the various gardens around campus is simple though necessary gardening, an element of adding beauty to the place. [Read More] #
Welcome to Teen Observer
Teen Observer is a blog where teens report the news during journalism workshops at American University. The faculty will welcome more than 400 students from 42 states and nine countries this summer to the Washington, D.C., campus, for a variety of communication courses, and then teach 100 students from around the country at UC-Berkeley in late July.
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