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Student Spotlight
Food Science integrates my passions for nutrition, microbiology, engineering, and chemistry – additionally, the food industry is always evolving and innovating, which I find exciting!
Heather Carbon, Graduate Student
Alumni Spotlight
Love being able to combine creativity and science to fix products or create new ones.
Kristen Sparkman, Culinex Kitchens
What is Food Science?
If you see it on the grocery shelf, a food scientist was involved. Call it a food technologist or a “food nerd”, but it doesn’t get much better than getting paid to eat your own science experiment.
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Students graduating from the School of Food Science are in high demand in every aspect of the food and wine industry. Graduates have their pick of jobs in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.