Women Leading Change
On International Women’s Day, we want to recognize women who are part of the EARTH community and highlight their professional development and the impact they are having on their communities…
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EARTH Clubs: encouraging mental and physical health
One of the first-year Academic Program courses is Health and Physical Fitness, designed to provide students with the necessary tools to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Based on this course, various clubs were created to strengthen social-emotional skills, physical activity, and mental health…
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The Science of Making Food
When Aracelly Cordero was a child, she once watched as a container of cow’s milk turned what seemed like magically into frozen yogurt. She watched her father work, carefully observing a process that intrigued her and made her wonder, “How does food become the products we consume? How does milk turn into yogurt ice cream?”…
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Garang Aguer: A Student with Big Dreams and Accomplishments
James Garang Aguer (’24, South Sudan) never knew his homeland. His family fled the armed conflict in South Sudan in the late 1990s before he was born and they settled in Kakuma, one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Kenya. Growing up in such a complex place, where good people abound, but food and access to…
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EARTH Talks: the power of your voice
For the past five years, EARTH has encouraged students, faculty, and staff to participate in EARTH Talks, an event inspired by the TED Talks organization that distributes free talks on “ideas and…
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Ninth Agribusiness Sustainability Summit
The Ninth Agribusiness Sustainability Summit, held on November 8, was an opportunity for second-year students to present results regarding the finances and production of the businesses they have been…
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How Mushroom Production Helps Guatemalan Women Farmers
Carmela Sacuj is a member of Visión Maya Association, a group of women who produce oyster mushrooms in San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala. She is one of the women participating in Proyecto REAL (Rural Entrepreneurship for Agricultural Livelihoods), a project which has been underway since 2022 and is…
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Griffith Challenge: Innovation with hearts of palm fiber
How to create a nutritious, innovative, and delicious product incorporating hearts of palm fiber as a raw material? That was the question on the minds of Alicia Vega (Class of 2021, Costa Rica) and her classmates who joined the Griffith Challenge, a contest promoted by Griffith Foods in conjunction with EARTH University’s Development Unit, as part of the Food Processing course.
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Coming Home: EARTH Graduates Reunite and Celebrate
Over 100 EARTH graduates from 15 countries attended the 2023 Graduation Week and Class Reunions in December. With us were alumni from the Classes of 2018, 2013, 2008, 2003, 1998, and 1993, the latter being the first graduating class in EARTH’s history…
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A Post-harvest Internship
Daniela Maroto (’24, Costa Rica) had never left Costa Rica until a few weeks ago, when she traveled first to Mexico for a few days of training and then to Santander, Colombia for her International Internship at Robinson Fresh supervising the Tahitian lime packing company called Gramaluz who exports to the United States and…
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