AUGUST 5, 2020 — Next on the menu in the Food for Thought summer webinar series is a timely conversation about the impact of COVID-19 on how our food and other essentials get to our grocery stores and then to our homes.
Join local specialists on Thursday, August 6 at noon to hear more about the measures being taken to strategically and creatively address supply chain and sustainability challenges in San Antonio and across the United States.
On the expert panel:
- Dan Glickman, vice president and executive director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program,
- Howard Grimes, UTSA associate vice president for institutional initiatives and chief executive officer of the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute,
- Laurie Ristino, founder and principal of Strategies for a Sustainable Future, and
- Kefeng Xu, professor of management science and statistics in UTSA’s College of Business.
The panel will be moderated by Bernard Arulanandam, UTSA’s vice president for research, economic development, and knowledge enterprise.
The webinar is free and open to the public, however, registration is required.
⇒ Learn more about the Food for Thought series and its topics.
Food for Thought is a pop-up summer series, produced by UTSA’s offices of Development & Alumni Relations and University Relations. The series highlights the culinary community and the postpandemic recovery of the food industry.
Each webinar in the series delves into topics related to food—where it comes from, how it translates cultures, what the impact will be on local restaurants and how it gets to our plates. The series will conclude on Thursday, August 20 at noon with the topic Tacos, Texas and Tradition.
