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Davidson College alum Ann Tutwiler, a senior fellow at Meridian Institute and incoming chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, offers tips on how to reduce your food’s environmental footprint. Learn more.

The students, faculty and staff who made up the Davidson Gourmet Society added elegance, international flair and fun to campus dining. Read more.

From favorite on-campus eateries to far-flung locales around the globe, Davidson College alums, faculty, staff and students recall the foods that transport them to another place and time. Read more.

From farmers and bakers to chefs, baristas and specialty food makers, Davidson alums feed their passions—and people—with their entrepreneurial endeavors. Read more.

Jeff Tonidanel ’98 and Jamie Brown ’99 took the biggest gamble of their lives and ended up creating a restaurant empire in Charlotte, with award-winners like Supperland grabbing local and national attention and attracting locals and visitors from around the world. Read more.

Bailey Foster ’94 launched Real Good Kitchen, a shared commercial kitchen, and created a community that’s elevated food options and opportunities in her Knoxville hometown. Learn more.

Davidson College President Doug Hicks reflects on how food can create a connecting-of-worlds moment. Read more.

This beloved Italian dish has remained a campus favorite for many generations of Davidson College students. Learn more.

Davidson College and the Catawba Nation have entered into a partnership that touches agriculture, art and cultural understanding. Read more.

School psychologist Katherine Griffin-Erickson ’90 has seen her caseload spike in recent years, most notably since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Davidson College graduate works with elementary school students to manage stressors, including family strife, social media and pandemic learning losses.

A Davidson College capstone project about North Carolina’s death row showed Tim Saintsing ’98 that low academic achievement often preceded a death sentence. That steered the course of his life in public education, leading him to co-found the country’s first boys only charter school in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant area, and now, as executive director of KIPP NC charter schools.

As assistant superintendent of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Timisha Barnes-Jones ’92 specializes in leadership development and school transformation. She reflects on how partisan differences and increased political polarization obstruct America's responsibility to provide a strong education for all children.

Randolph Lewis ’91, his wife, Abigail Jennings, and two other families started their charter school in 2012 with 20 kindergarten and first graders in two rooms in a historic house. Today, Pioneer Springs Community School is a K-12 public nature-based charter school with nearly 600 students.

Brittany Murray’s life in public education started as a student, she’s now a public policy expert and the parent of four children in public school. Murry, the Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Political Science at Davidson College, specializes in K-12 public education policy.

Adolescence can be a tough time, but it’s also a time of tremendous growth and change. Catherine Bagwell, the Virginia Lasater Irvin Professor of Psychology at Davidson College and an expert on adolescent social development, offers advice for parents and caregivers.

Mikayla Bowens ’27 had always been a good student, but as a West Charlotte High School freshman, found the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting her school experience and sense of well-being. She considered not attending a four-year college until she came across the DuBoisian World Scholars Society, led by a group of Davidson College students who inspired her to go to Davidson.

TJ Elliott ’21 became interested in teaching at Davidson College, spent two years with Teach for America and is now a science teacher and assistant football coach at East Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, where he was once a student athlete. His path back there speaks to the influence that teachers can have in a kid’s life, and he models his teaching on those teachers and coaches who helped him grow as a student, football player and person.

In November, Davidson College celebrated 50+years of women at Davidson with a weekend dedicated to marking that milestone. We share stories of that history, and the remarkable alumnae who helped make it.