- The department hosted their annual graduation party and celebrated 27 undergraduate students, 5 master’s students, and 5 PhD’s who graduated during spring semester. We also published a special edition graduation newsletter that gave the graduates a chance to share some of their favorite memories as well as acknowledge some of the people who supported them. Congratulations and best of luck to our newest alumni.
- Congratulations to Dr. Jiyoung Lee who has been appointed chair of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences within the College of Public Health.
- Dr. Bala Balasubramaniam has been reappointed to USDA's National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board. Dr. Balasubramanian also recently co-edited a book titled “Unit Operations in Food Grain Processing.”
- Congratulations to Dominick Goodman who has been awarded the 2024 Virginia Dare scholarship. This scholarship goes to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated a strong interest in a future career in food science and has shown exceptional scholarship and leadership as a student. Dominick is a Spring 2024 graduate of the department and received his BS in Food Science.
- Congratulations to Celeste Miller who has been awarded the Pamela Parker Garten and Tom Parker Graduate Scholarship. This award is given to a student(s) with a high caliber of leadership experience in addition to significant research experience and activity.
- Congratulations to Liz Astorga and Hetian Hu who have been named the 2023-2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistants. The Outstanding TA award recognizes TA’s who have made distinguished contributions to our department by demonstrating excellence in any number of areas such as assisting with lab instruction, recitation, or discussion sections, or assisting faculty members with high-enrollment courses.
- Congratulations to recent Food Science graduate Murphy Carroll on being named an IFT Undergraduate Research Competition finalist. As an undergraduate student, Murphy participated in our FoodSURE program.
- Congratulations to the following students who have recently been awarded a scholarship: the Ohio Valley Institute of Food Technologists (OVIFT) awarded scholarships to graduate students Liz Astorga Oquendo, Rinky Ghosh, Yutong Li, and undergraduate student Jenna Ainsworth; undergraduate Megan Chludzinski received a scholarship from the Lake Erie Chapter of IFT; undergraduate James Kwon was awarded the IFT Food Engineering Division scholarship and Jenna Ainsworth received a Feeding Tomorrow Undergraduate Award from the Institute of Food Technologists.
- Several of our students have recently been inducted into Phi Tau Sigma, the honor society of food science and technology. Congratulations to Rolando Choriego, Vidarshani Ellepola, Gabriella Gephart, Cameron Jordan, Celeste Matos, Aayasee Nanda, Isha Patil, Harmeen Prasher, Carlos Porras-Guardado, Hrithik Shetty, and Ying Yang.
- This May CFAES Distinguished Professors Dr. Monica Giusti and Dr. Luis Rodriguez Saona traveled to Peru, where they serve as visiting faculty at the Universidad Agraria La Molina. They taught an intensive course on Colorimetry, Spectrometry and Chromatography at the University’s graduate program in Food Science and participated in the Peruvian Festival of Purple Corn and other Maize, in Cajamarca.
- This summer Dr. Osvaldo Campanella is a visiting scholar with the CentraleSupélec - Paris-Saclay University Research Center program. His work there as the Carl E. Haas Endowed Chair in Food Industries includes modeling and experimental techniques in addition to strengthening our international scientific network and partnerships.
- Dr. Lynn Knipe recently held the OSU Thermal Processing of Ready-to-Eat Meat Products short course. The course covers the technical and regulatory aspects of cooking and chilling of ready-to-eat meat products and included presentations from speakers in the equipment industry, USDA-FSIS and Ohio State faculty Dr. Denny Heldman, Dr. Bala Balasubramaniam, and Dr. Lynn Knipe. Participants represented companies in 13 states and Canada, and 2 universities besides Ohio State, Purdue, and ITAL in Brazil.
- The Phi Tau Sigma Buckeye Chapter hosted their 4th annual ‘Phive’-K fun run/walk earlier this month. Faculty, staff, and students turned out to participate in the event which took them through many beautiful outdoor spaces on the Ohio State campus. Congratulations to Daniel Do who was the first-place finisher in the student category and Dr. Nicole Arnold who placed first in the faculty category.
- The Food Industries Center launched two animated videos designed for parents and caregivers to understand best practices for infant feeding and specialized feeding including preparation, handling, and storage of formula and breastmilk. This project was a collaboration with subject matter experts and funded by the Abbott Nutrition Health Institute. The videos are publicly available on YouTube at the following links:
Infant Feeding for Parents and Caregivers https://go.osu.edu/infant_feeding_tips
and Specialized Feeding for Parents and Caregivers https://go.osu.edu/specialized_feeding_tips. - On May 20 – 24, the Food Industries Center trained FDA, NOAA, U.S. Army, and state regulators through the FD152 Food Processing & Technology course. Dr. Valente Alvarez led a team of collaborators from FST, FABE, and the food industry, including numerous staff and external collaborators, and the following faculty: Dr. Dennis Heldman, Dr. Melvin Pascall, Dr. Mary Kay Pohlschneider, and Dr. Sudhir Sastry. The 4.5-day course provided an overview of the basic principles in food processing, technology, and awareness of associated equipment used to ensure the safety of manufactured foods.
- The Food Industries Center, in partnership with the International Programs in Agriculture, hosted an international training program on May 4 - 18, which was funded through the USDA Cochran Fellowship Program. The two-week training was designed for a group of seven Fellows and 1 USDA staff member from Bangladesh and focused on the U.S. food market with a focus on sweets and snacks, consumer trends, food safety, and ultimately increasing access to new products in Bangladesh. Dr. Valente Alvarez and Steven Simmons led the group through industry tours and meetings throughout Ohio, a sweets and snacks expo in Indianapolis, and association meetings in D.C.
Upcoming Events
June 25-28 Food Industries Center Training Course
Food Extrusion Workshop http://www.go.osu.edu/extrusion
