July 2021

Designing and Introducing Cheese Quality Attributes Short Course

FST Professor and Dairy Specialist Moshe Rosenberg will teach a short course via Zoom for the California Artisan Cheese Guild called "Designing and Introducing Cheese Quality Attributes Short Course" during five days in September and October.

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Erika Estrada takes first place in IAFP 2021 Poster Competition!

Food Science and Technology

Erika Estrada, Ph.D. graduate student in Harris Lab, was awarded first place in the poster presentation in the J. Mac Goepfert Developing Scientists Competition at the International Association for Food Protection meeting in Phoenix, Arizona; first place in the technical talk presentation went to Karuna Kharel, a Ph.D. student at Louisiana State University. Erika's poster presentation was titled, "Using Whole Genome Sequencing to Characterize the Genetic Diversity of Salmonella enterica Isolated from Raw Inshell Pistachios".

Welcome to Assistant Professor Andrew Gravelle

Food Science and Technology

Please welcome Food Science and Technology's newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Andrew Gravelle. Andrew comes to us from the University of Guelph, where he earned his Ph.D. in Food Science this year. His M.S. and B.S. degrees were in Biophysics, also at the University of Guelph, after which he was a Research Associate in Food Science for seven years, 2011-2017, just prior to his doctoral degree studies from 2018-2021.

FST at IAFP and IFT FIRST July 18-21, 2021

Food Science and Technology

Several of our Food Science and Technology faculty and graduate students will be participating at the upcoming Virtual & In-Person 2021 Annual IAFP Meeting, to be held July 18‐21, 2021. Check out the IAFP website for the complete program information.

New Stewart-Bamforth Educators Award Announced by Institute of Brewing and Distilling

Food Science and Technology

Background

The new award is named after Professors Graham Stewart and Charlie Bamforth. It is most appropriate that this award be named jointly as during the 1990s and 2000s both ran a very successful series of educational symposia to aspiring brewing students in Africa, Asia, India and the Americas. Both have written and edited numerous fundamental malting, brewing and distilling texts that are now routinely referred to by students.