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$19 million renovation of UMass dining hall complete

The UMass Building Authority said it has completed a $19 million renovation of Lincoln Campus Center, a dining hall at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Hospitals jump on the healthy food bandwagon

As more doctors use food as a medical tool, health care providers are making nutritious options more readily available — even farmers markets.

A University employee who is one of the only New Jersey residents with a medical marijuana permit will potentially continue working for the University after a dispute in which he was reportedly told he would have to choose between medicating and his job.

The facility will house a 1,000-seat dining hall, several restaurants and Food Connection, a new partnership funded by Aramark to study local food systems.

It's no secret that there is a big national effort to combat childhood obesity by providing healthy food choices in public schools.

A northeast Ohio school district that discontinued a popular cafeteria cookie under new federal nutritional guidelines says it has heard from plenty of people commenting on the decision or wanting to place special orders for the treat, some from out of state.

Zavalla students are throwing away more food than they're eating and leaving the cafeteria hungry.

Mondays have become meat free in hundreds of school cafeterias across the Bay Area, a move praised by animal rights activists and environmentalists and condemned by the livestock industry for pushing politics into the lunch line.

A slew of volunteers man the Generals' Store at Wade Hampton High School, selling snacks to hungry high school students during breakfast and lunch hours.

Tufts Dining Services will implement a number of updates to its dining operations at Tufts this year in response to feedback from faculty, staff and students.

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