Kelly Brownell – “Joseph Priestley Award Recipient”
Duke University
Joseph Priestley Award Celebration Lecture
Harnessing Academic Work to Make a Difference: Food Policy as an Example
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
With the goal of more tightly connecting work in academic settings with the real world of social and policy change, a model of strategic scholarship will be described. Examples will be drawn from work on food policy (e.g., menu labeling, food marketing, soda taxes).
The Joseph Priestley Award recipient is chosen by a different science department each year. The Department of Psychology has selected this year’s recipient, Kelly Brownell. The event is supported by the College’s Priestley Fund and is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the departments of biology, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental studies, math & computer science, psychology, and physics & astronomy.
Biography (provided by the speaker)
Kelly Brownell is dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where he is also Robert L. Flowers Professor of Public Policy and professor of psychology and neuroscience.
In 2006 Time magazine listed Kelly Brownell among “The World’s 100 Most Influential People” in its special Time 100 issue featuring those “.. whose power, talent Read more