- Dr. John Coupland, 2023 CoAS Community of Teaching Excellence Award.
- Dr. John Coupland, 25-Year Award, PSU
- Dr. Luke LaBorde, 25-Year Award, PSU
- Dr. Misha Kwasniewski, Anna and Guy Bixler Memorial Award in Food Science.
- Dr. Jasna Kovac and Dr. Luke Laborde, College of Agricultural Science Integrated Team Award.
- Kailee Shotto and Maddy Denlinger, Keystone IFT Scholarships 2023/2024.
- Lauren Wolf, Virginia Dare Award.
- Taejung Chung, The Carolee Bull Leadership Award.
- Tyler Yany, Mackenna Yount and Catherine Eisenhut, National Association of Flavors and Food-Ingredient Systems (NAFFS) Scholarship.
- Ashley Ohstrom, Allegheny Branch, American Society of Microbiology (ABASM)1st Place Graduate Student Poster Presentation, Title: “Starter to Slice: Characterizing the Sourdough Microbiome and Its Influence on Bread Quality and Nutrition."
- Jacob Simmons, Allegheny Branch, American Society of Microbiology (ABASM), 2nd Place Undergraduate Poster Presentation, Title: "Is chemical pre-treatment of LDPE necessary to accelerate fungal degradation of plastic?”
- Tyler Chandross-Cohen, Allegheny Branch, American Society of Microbiology (ABASM), 2nd Place Graduate Poster Presentation, Growth Potential of Bacillus cereus Group Strains from Different Phylogenetic Groups in a Dairy Food Model.
- Laura Taraboletti, 2023 Judith A. Williams Food Industry Group Undergraduate Student Leadership Award.
- Tyler Chandross-Cohen, 2023 Food Industry Group Graduate Leadership Award.
- Dr. Jasna Kovac, promoted to Associate Professor of Food Science.
- Dr. Robert Roberts, 2023 IFT Fellow.
- Dr. Jasna Kovac, IFT, 2023 Outstanding Young Scientist Award in honor of Samuel Cate Prescott.
- Dr. Catherine Cutter, selected as Fellow of the International Association for Food Protection.
- Dr Catherine Cutter, 2023 Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award.
- Brittani Bedford, selected as Sloan Scholar within the Sloan Scholars Program.
- Dr. Sigler, NACADA 2023 Region Two Excellence in Advising Faculty Advisor Certificate of Merit.
- Dr. Edward Dudley, elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
- Dr. Jasna Kovac, 2023 Advancing a Global Penn State Early Career Faculty Award, PSU.
- Brittani Bedford, FSIS Food Safety Fellow through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) program.
- Marin Bucknavage, appointed to governor's advisory committee of the new Pennsylvania Food Policy Council.
- Songyi Yoo, Kai Kai Ma, Cynthia Loi, and Bridget Reed, accepted into PMCA Student Outreach Program.
- Anna Sarubbi, Gamma Sigma Delta Undergraduate Division, 1st Place Food Systems Division. Title: “The effect of spore germination triggers on the germination of Bacillus cereus sensu stricto spores.”
- Laura Taraboletti, Gamma Sigma Delta Undergraduate Division, 1st Place, Human Behavioral & Social Systems. Title: “Comparison of techniques to remove smoke off-odors from books."
- Cynthia Loi, Gamma Sigma Delta Graduate Division, 1st Place, Food Systems Division. Title: “Olfactory inputs modulate the perceived tastes of different types of chocolate.”
- Tyler Chandross-Cohen, Gamma Sigma Delta Graduate Division, 1st Place, Microbiology & Microbiome Systems Division. Title: “Growth Potential of Bacillus Cereus Group Strains From Different Phylogenetic Groups in a Dairy Food Model."
- Leah Bodinger, Gamma Sigma Delta Undergraduate Division, 2nd Place, Food Systems Division. Title: “Effects of Sodium Citrate on Almond Proteins for Almond-Based Beverage Products."
- Soomee Hwang, Gamma Sigma Delta Graduate Division, 2nd Place, Food Systems Division. Title: “Comparative urine metabolomics of mice treated with non-toxic and toxic oral doses of (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate."
- Rose Spahn and Songyi Yoo, Undergraduate students inducted in Gamma Sigma Delta.
- Marjorie Jauregui, PSU Graduate Exhibition, 3rd Place DEI Award, “Evaluation of the effects of growing and drying conditions on the nutritional and phytochemical composition of emergency foods in a post-nuclear war scenario,” co-presented by Swathi Kothattil.
Department of Food Science
- Email foodsci@psu.edu
- Office (814) 865-5444
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Department of Food Science
- Email foodsci@psu.edu
- Office (814) 865-5444
- Fax (814) 863-6132
