Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/12/17

Duke University didn’t just get lucky with $5.9 million in grants for research related to a broad spectrum of food issues, including malnutrition, obesity, agriculture and contamination. This university’s reach has been long and its ambition for bettering the world unrestrained, so the funds from the Duke Endowment ($5 million), the William R. Kenan Jr. Trust ($600,000) and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of N.C. Foundation ($300,000) are deserved.The project will try to draw together different areas of food research, and Kelly Brownell, dean of the Sanford School, rightly has reached out to N.C. State, a world leader in agriculture research, and UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health.

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