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COVID-19
Understandably, there are concerns regarding safety dealing with COVID-19. The most current information on how the university is setting safety protocols for the 2021 fall semester is posted on the COVID-19 website. We know college is difficult to navigate during normal times, but especially challenging during the pandemic. Please feel free to email or contact us if you have questions or concerns.
Student Spotlight
When I was studying abroad in Ireland at UCC, I took my first food science courses. It rained every day for the six months I was abroad, and I went to every single one of those classes. From then on, I knew I needed my graduate studies to be nested in food science because the field sparked my interests so much.
Victoria (Tori) Surette, PhD Graduate student
Alumni Spotlight
I came to WSU/Pullman as a nontraditional student, and was slightly apprehensive about “fitting in”. This concern was completely unfounded. I could not have had a more accepting and inclusive cohort! Many of us worked at the Creamery together, studied together, and supported each other. Additionally, I truly felt that SFS faculty cared about each and every student in the program, and worked very hard to help us succeed.
Jake Blaylock, Class of 2016, Bumblebar
Faculty Spotlight
Wine science – viticulture & enology – is a fascinating field of learning and work as it integrates the environment (sun, water, soil, wind), grape variety selection, grapevine physiology, grapevine diseases and pests, microbiology and chemistry of fermentations and wine aging, sensory perception.
Dr. Thomas Henick-Kling, Professor of Enology, Director, Viticulture & Enology Program
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.