Jonathan Schell, the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute and former staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, accepts his Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award.
Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Lecture Series
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The Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award was established in 1993 to honor Jean Mayer, by challenging and inspiring our students and the community, by bringing to Tufts distinguished scholars and practitioners whose moral courage, personal integrity, and passion for scholarship resonated his dictum that
"Scholarship, research and teaching must be dedicated to solving the most pressing problems facing the world."
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Dr. Jean Mayer was a world-renowned nutritionist, published more than 750 scientific papers and 10 books, and advised three U.S. Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Carter), the US Congress, the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization, the World Health Organization, the United Nations' Children's Fund and the U.S. Secretary of State. He helped establish and expand the food stamp, school lunch and other national and international nutrition program and organized the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health.
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