Distinguished Professor Emeritus R. Paul Singh has been invited to serve on the prestigious Food and Nutrition Board of the Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Prof. Singh will provide input related to issues pertaining to food technology and engineering.
Machines Poised To Replace Vineyard Workers
Ahmad Hakim
July 23, 2019
One of the greatest expenses of making wine is the cost of people.
Much of the work in picking wine grapes, or really any fruit, is the cost of doing the work by hand. Many hands are required. For now, that is; inventors continue to tweak designs for machines that can prune and pick in the vineyards and orchards.
The Viticulture & Enology program at the University of California-Davis is involved in the transition, as is the UC's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Kaan Kurtural of UCD visits with George Zhuang of UCANR .
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Dr. Carl Winter, Specialist in Cooperative Extension and Vice Chair of this Department, is retiring from UC Davis at the end of June, 2019 after 28 years with the UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology, and 32 years with the University of California.
Professor Maria Marco was invited by the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) organizing committee to give a speech at ASM Microbe 2019 on "Use of Lactobacillus to offset the effects of obesogenic diets". Her talk was presented on June 23, 2019 to a packed room of over 120 people.
To learn more about ASM Microbe 2019, visit the American Society of Microbiology website.
Dr. Luxin Wang, an assistant professor working for the Department of Food Science and Technology, was awarded the Grower’s Risk Assessment Biomarker Investigative Tool (GRABIT) Challenge Award on June 18th 2019 at the annual Center for Produce Safety research symposium in Austin TX.
Glen Patrick Fox, a senior research fellow at Australia’s University of Queensland, will become UC Davis’ new Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Science on July 1. Fox succeeds Charlie Bamforth, who held the position from 1999 until his retirement last year.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Charlie Bamforth has been honored with a travel award in his name from the American Society of Brewing Chemists.
Find the latest publications of the department by clicking on the link below.
Assistant Professors Ned Spang and Christopher Simmons were recently awarded a grant for $3.16M from the California Energy Commission for the project "Demonstrating the Potential for On-Site Electricity Generation from Food Waste Using Containerized Anaerobic Digestion Units".
A brief introduction to the Cluster ticketing system for support issues.
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