Nourish Cafe
Connecting Tufts students, faculty, ecosystem stakeholders, external collaborators, and innovators for cross-disciplinary learning and development.
Let’s Meet Where We Eat
Friedman School students interview entrepreneurs and innovators for Nourish Café!
Innovation Summits
Innovation Summit Description
Innovation Summit 2022: Design to Outcomes: Building a Resilient Food System
Innovation Summit 2021: Advancing Nutrition Innovation in an Era of Misinformation
Entrepreneurship Summit 2021: Research to Entrepreneurship
Innovation Summit 2020
Johnson & Wales University
The Institute is honored to collaborate with Johnson & Wales University’s College of Food Innovation & Technology on the Spring Break at JWU program. Tufts students spend the week Providence, Rhode Island embed in CFIT’s culinary labs, learning from world-class faculty and students.
2025
Alex Kaplan, 2025
Jen Oslund, 2025
Amy Bolton, 2025
Zoe Levitan, 2025
2024
Camila Sanchez-Gonzales, 2024
Lauren Shamie, 2024
Priya Iyer, 2024
2023
Lexi Cole, 2023
Jenny Litzau, 2023
'Gbenga Sadik, 2023
Dana Norwood, 2023
Student Voices
The Institute employs and offers professional development opportunities to students from across Tufts University. Here’s what they have to say about working with us!