It sounds a bit like a joke, but there’s a real answer: the Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917.

A minor in agricultural economics is a powerful addition to many of UW’s bachelor’s degrees. In any field — from animal and plant sciences to wildlife management or nursing — a minor in agricultural ...

University of Delaware alumnus Rodolfo Nayga Jr. wants to know what people eat. When people ask the internationally renowned food economics researcher what he does for a living, that’s where he starts ...

Balancing checkbooks? Cooking healthy food? Raising kids and diapering babies? Building healthy friendships? A lot of those basic skills we call "adulting"? There used to be a name for the class that ...

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