Ksenia Lang
- Feb 27, 2026
- by Galib Braschler
- Holistic Human Health, Student Life
Class serves up lessons in nutrition, culture and budgeting
For some students, NS 2470 is the first time they’ve ever held a chef’s knife or carefully measured out ingredients. For others pursuing a career as a registered dietitian, it is a requirement, and they learn alongside classmates who are just beginning in a kitchen. Across a semester that starts with baking simple muffins and culminates in creating complex culturally appropriate dishes, students learn to feed themselves, even on a budget.
Held in the Discovery
- Mar 11 ,2026
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Zoom Passcode: 843821
Sizing the Fashionable Body: Butterick Patterns, Standardization, and Normalcy 1860-1910
During the late nineteenth century, Ebenezer Butterick and The E. Butterick Company transformed women’s fashion by introducing mass-produced, precut sewing patterns based on a proportional grading system. While these patterns were marketed as accessible and democratic tools for amateur dressmakers, they were based on a rigid sizing framework that codified a vision of bodily “normalcy” centered on corsetry and the proportions of an idealized size “36.”
This talk shares research in progress on the origins
Patti Benchley
- Mar 4, 2026
- by Kathy Hovis