The College of Human Ecology’s first annual HumEc-a-thon, a hackathon-style challenge, took place in April in the College’s Commons where teams of students comprised of at least two different Human Ecology majors worked to design solutions to a real-world problem: the opioid epidemic. Teams were asked to incorporate the distinct perspectives that embody Human Ecology and outline a multipronged approach capitalizing on at least two of its diverse disciplines: nutrition, health, design, fiber science, policy, education, and development.
