- Dr. Ryan Elias, 2022 Community of Teaching Excellence Award, College of Agricultural Sciences.
- Dr. Josephine Wee, 2022 Community of Teaching Excellence Award, College of Agricultural Sciences.
- Dr. Chris Sigler, 2022 Anna and Guy Bixler Memorial Award in Food Science.
- Dr. Jasna Kovac, Early Achievement in Research Award, College of Agricultural Sciences.
- Dr. Chris Sigler, 2021-2022 Community of Excellence in Advising Award, College of Agricultural Sciences.
- Dr. Chris Sigler, 2022 Excellence in Academic Advising Award, College of Agricultural Sciences.
- Dr. Helene Hopfer, Promoted to Associate Professor.
- Dr. Robert Chiles, Promoted to Associate Professor.
- Dr Kathleen Keller, Promoted to Professor.
- Dr. Gregory Ziegler, selected to receive title of "Distinguished Professor of Food Science."
- Taejung Chung, 2022 the CAS Graduate Student Competitive Grants Program, 2022-2023 for his proposal "Comparative analysis of survivability, germinability, and cytotoxicity of Bacillus cereus s.s. and Bacillus cereus s.s biovar Thuringiensis spores in conditions simulating human gastrointestinal tract."
- Brittani Bedford, 2022 USDA/FSIS Research Participation Program.
- Brittani Bedford, 2022 Graduate School Endowed Fellowship, College of Agricultural Sciences.
- Daphne Weikart, NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship for project on "Anti-inflammatory Effects of Cocoa Polyphenols in Obesity Models."
- Elisabeth Weir, Kayla Finkelstein, Tyler Yany, and Nixon Meneses-Marentes, accepted into 2022 PMCA Student Outreach Program.
- Sharon Nieves-Miranda, 2022 USDA Food Safety Inspection Service Food Safety Fellow.
- Aaron Wiedemer, Gamma Sigma Delta Undergraduate Division, 3rd place Micro-Food Systems. Title: Boy, that doesn’t stink! The Effect of Roasting and Cacao Origin on Important Sulfur Compounds in Chocolate.
- Anjali Sapre, Gamma Sigma Delta Undergraduate Division, 2nd place Micro-Food Systems. Title: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Performance of RNase H2-dependent PCR (rhAmpSeq) for Resistome Characterization in a Complex Sample.
- Tyler Chandross-Cohen, Gamma Sigma Delta Undergraduate Division, 1st place Micro-Food Systems. Title: Isolation, Characterization, and Application of Anti-listerial Isolates in a Raw Milk Cheese Model to Inhibit Listeria monocytogenes.
- Christopher Pedone, Gamma Sigma Delta Undergraduate Division, 1st Place Plant-related. Title: Reduction of Salmonella on Rainbow Chard Seeds Due to Planar Atmospheric-Pressure Dielectric-Barrier-Discharge Treatment.
- Laura Rolon, Gamma Sigma Delta Graduate Division, 1st place Micro-Food Systems. Title: Two-Year Monitoring of Environmental Microbial Communities in Three Apple Packing Facilities and their Association with the Presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
- The Unbaked Flour Co. a startup by Hannah Carney, Peter Demartino, Andrew
Paff, and Tara L. Pickens - 1st place award in the 2022 Ag Springboard Competition, $7500 to launch the company. - Elisabeth Weir, Dennis L. Zak Ph.D. Memorial Education Award, PMCA
- Kayla Finkelstein, Nixon Menese-Marentes, Elisabeth Weir, and Tyler Yany, selected to participate in 2022 PMCA student Outreach Program.
- Leah Bodinger and Madalyn Arthur, Keystone IFT Scholarships.
Department of Food Science
- Email foodsci@psu.edu
- Office (814) 865-5444
- Fax (814) 863-6132
Department of Food Science
- Email foodsci@psu.edu
- Office (814) 865-5444
- Fax (814) 863-6132
