Just over two months completed now of my six month challenge! I set out to not purchase any NEW clothing for six months in an attempt to reduce my own personal environmental impact, and to discover and support clothing recycling programmes in the meanwhile. While I’ve been fortunate enough to not need to purchase new ...
Anheuser-Busch is a company name I grew up hearing on a regular basis. Growing up in about an hour and a half outside of St. Louis, I was never far from a neon sign advertising Budweiser, Bud Light or Busch beer. Iconic artwork, the Budweiser Clydesdales and Cardinals baseball games at Busch Stadium are all ...
Up until the last week I was unsure of what angle I would be focusing on throughout my culminating research project. I knew and understood that I was to find some way of connecting my passion for beer and brewing with my interest in agricultural improvement, but I was unsure how. At first I thought ...
Last Thursday, the 18th of May I finally made the jump from Galway to Leuven, Belgium- home of the AB-Inbev General Headquarters where I will be completing my internship over the coming months. Leuven is a medium sized city of around 100,000 inhabitants and is the home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the oldest and ...
After months of completing coursework in the MScCCAFS program, I am excited to announce that I have finally been given a work assignment in which to complete my internship and adjoining MSc research thesis. Program Directors Charlie Spillane and Dr. Peter McKeown have been working tirelessly to ensure that each student finds funded research opportunities that ...
I have created this website and blog to keep a continuously updated log of the research that I am conducting, as well as relevant articles and pages to my area of academic interest. You can expect to see shared content in the realm of brewing sustainability, as well as my own original content. Please feel ...