Making News

FST grad student awarded a Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship

Zhengyao "Zeya" Xue has been awarded a Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship from the Trustees of Feeding tomorrow, the Foundation of IFT.

BAE Professor VanderGheynst to receive Distinguished Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award

BFTV Cluster

Professor Jean VanderGheynst was selected by the Graduate Council Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Welfare Committee as the recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award.

Professor Nitin selected as first Barrett Fellow

Food Science and Technology

After a competitive selection process, Department Chair Mike McCarthy announced on May 6 that Associate Professor and Engineer N. Nitin would be the first holder of the Diane M. Barrett Fruit and Vegetable Faculty Fellowship.

Ben Golomb was awarded the Max Kleiber Graduate Research Award

Food Science and Technology

Ben Golomb, a recent FSGG PhD graduate and member of the Marco lab, was just awarded the Max Kleiber Graduate Research Prize for his PhD thesis, and will be acknowledged at the 2016 Graduate Studies Honors and Awards Ceremony on May 23. One of Bens thesis research papers was just published in Nature Scientific Reports. This paper shows how probiotic Lactobacillus and the indigenous microbiota adapt for growth in the small intestine. Congratulations Ben!

Simmons Lab student wins Arla Foods Fellowship

Food Science and Technology

The Arla Food Fellowship was awarded to Ryan Dowdy, a second year doctoral student in the Department of Food Science and Technology. Ryan works in the laboratory of Professor Christopher Simmons. Ryan's research project will combine renewable desalination of dairy waste streams with improved membrane technology. He will receive $40,000 from Arla Foods to support one year of his research.

Diane Barrett Fellowship and International Tomato Processing Symposium, May 6, 2016

Food Science and Technology

The International Tomato Processing Symposium is scheduled for May 6th, 2016, in the Sensory Theater, Robert Mondavi Institute, on the University of California, Davis campus. There will be a retirement dinner following, in the adjoining Good Life Garden. This symposium is designed for tomato processors, breeders, grow-ers, marketers and UC-affiliated researchers.

FST grad student awarded a Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship

BAE Professor VanderGheynst to receive Distinguished Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award

Professor Nitin selected as first Barrett Fellow

Ben Golomb was awarded the Max Kleiber Graduate Research Award

Simmons Lab student wins Arla Foods Fellowship

Diane Barrett Fellowship and International Tomato Processing Symposium, May 6, 2016

Update on the Sustainable Wine & Food Processing Center

Professor Mike O'Mahoney to speak at SenseAsia conference

Recent publications by the VEN faculty

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