The OSU Center for Latin American Studies will host Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director of Food First, as he presents "Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform our Food Systems," on Tuesday, February 14 at 1:30 p.m. in the Ohio Staters Inc., Traditions Room of the Ohio Union. Holt-Gimenez will address the idea that the balance of forces cannot be changed unless fragmented food movements forge a common platform based on common grounds.

A photo slideshow features student organizations preparing international cuisine for Taste of OSU 2012. The annual event took place in the Ohio Union from 5 - 9 p.m. on Friday, January 27. The event is free and open to all Ohio State students, faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends. Tickets to purchase small samplings of international foods cost $1 each (Cash and BuckID only).

The Center for Latin American Studies will co-sponsor a presentation with the Byrd Polar Research Center on the latter's research on the state of Peruvian glaciers, which will be held on Friday, February 15 at 7 p.m. in 240 Scott Hall. Lonnie Thompson (School of Earth Sciences) and Bryan Mark (Department of Geography) are two Ohio State faculty studying the evidence of climate change in Peru, and they are eager to share what they've uncovered and hear about what the community wants to know regarding the state of glacier change in Peru.