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2013 News
Take a University Food Science Course While Still in High School
Due to rising costs for higher education, the interest in earning college credit while students are still in high school is rising. In addition, some higher achieving students want (and need) the challenge of college level courses while in high school. With these facts in mind, the School of Food Science (SFS) has created an [...]
Good to The Last Drop: From Wine Grapes to Granola Bars
April 2013 | Voice of the Vine, by Rachel Webber The remains of wine grapes picked and pressed typically return to fields as fertilizers, but scientists are also finding ways to recycle those edible remains into healthy foods. Take Gena McKahan’s gluten-free, merlot grape-seed flour granola bar, for example. As a food science undergraduate at [...]
Student Night with Lewis and Clark Section of IFT
Lewis and Clark Section of the Institute of Food Technologists (LCIFT) hosted their annual student night at Banyans on the Ridge in Pullman WA on Thursday, April 11, 2013. Five graduate students and 10 undergraduate students from the School of Food Science (Washington State University-University of Idaho) attended, along with 20 professionals from industry and [...]
Undergraduate Researcher Earns Trip to National Conference
When he found out his undergraduate research qualified him for the the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), Washington State University food science undergraduate Pablo Corredor submitted a poster in hopes of sharing his research on the Bartlett Pear. Corredor’s poster was chosen to compete at the national conference and he [...]
Innovative New Food Science Degree to Meet Growing Industry Demand
This fall WSU and the University of Idaho will launch a new online Master of Science in Agriculture program that integrates food science and management. The new degree is the first in the nation to combine food science with business management courses, giving graduates an edge in the industry and helping to meet growing demand. [...]
Chocolate Lust – Class Covers Beans to Bonbons
Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – As a chocoholic known to slip out nights in search of a fix, this reporter was tantalized by the idea of covering a chocolate lecture at Washington State University. Even better, it included taste-testing. But first, a morsel of history. In what could [...]
Jeff Kronenberg helps food processors stay profitable — and out of the headlines.
Idaho’s “Food Safety King” Jeff Kronenberg is featured in an Idaho Statesman article in the Business Insider Section about UI and TechHelp food processing outreach. BY LENNON S. REID SPECIAL TO BUSINESS INSIDER © 2013 Idaho Statesman Idaho food and dairy processors have largely been spared the customer malaise, corporate financial ruin and bad publicity [...]
Fish in Drug Tainted Water
US News and World Report published an article entitled “Study: Fish in drug tainted water suffer reaction”. Dr. Greg Moller was quoted in the article. February 14, 2013 By JEFF DONN, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it’s an [...]
How Washington Tastes – The Apple Meets Cougar Gold
February 2013 – Washington State Magazine Much of Carolyn Ross’s work involves training people to quantify their taste. The sensory evaluation panels that she and her graduate students organize assess taste attributes in fruit and other foods and beverages such as sweetness, acidity, bitterness, and astringency. And “mouth feel,” which contributes enormously to the taste [...]
Northwest Food Processors Association
Twenty Two of our Food Science Club students travelled to the NWFPA Expo in Portland just over a week ago during the MLK holiday weekend. They attended the expo and toured 9 food processing facilities—Full Sail Brewing Co., Darigold, Bull Run Distilling Co., Frito Lay, Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods, OSU Food Innovation Center, YoCream, [...]
