{"id":13,"date":"2011-12-01T18:58:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2024-11-06T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T22:39:14","slug":"staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/staff\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU Sensory Science Center Faculty & Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Carolyn Ross, PhD\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\tProfessor and Director of the WSU Sensory Science Center, School of Food Science.<\/em>\u00a0
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Since starting at WSU in 2004, Dr. Ross has established her lab and the WSU Sensory Science Center as a center for graduate student training in the areas of sensory science and analytical chemistry. Specifically, the overall objectives of Dr. Ross\u2019 research and graduate education program are to understand the theoretical basis underpinning the sensory perception of foods and wines and correlate these attributes with quantifiable characteristics. Dr. Ross has also expanded her research to explore food texture perception in children. She has published over 130 research articles and presented at national and international conferences.\u00a0 Dr. Ross has three-times been awarded the Institute of Food Technologists Tanner Award for most\u2010cited article in the Journal of Food Science (sensory and food quality section).\u00a0 Dr. Ross was also recently awarded the WSU Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction and is currently a Fulbright-Australia Scholar at Deakin University in Melbourne (2023).
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Soo-Yeun Lee, PhD\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\tProfessor and Director of School of Food Science.<\/em>\u00a0
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As a Sensory Scientist, Dr. Soo-Yeun Lee\u2019s research program has aimed to encourage lifelong healthful eating habits by developing health-targeted food product alternatives and understanding consumer behavior in the context of food selection. Dr. Lee has investigated food systems intended for enhancing consumer health such as low sodium and low sugar foods without compromising taste. \u00a0While her main mantra is \u2018Taste is King,\u2019 the main focus of her research has been on health.\u00a0 As a researcher and educator, she has published more than 100 papers.\u00a0 Her previous research projects have included: 1) developing novel functional food products with bioactives, 2) characterizing innate and process-derived off-flavors in functional foods and developing methods to reduce these off-flavors, 3) identifying successful sodium reduction strategies in various food matrices, 4) determining the effect of sugar reduction in food systems, 5) defining the elements of picky eating in children, and 6) relating the contextual effect of consumer testing in real situations versus virtual reality situations using immersive technology.\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\r\n\t\t\tThe WSU Sensory Science Center also runs on the efforts and expertise of Food Science Graduate Students and Sensory Evaluation Assistants.\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our People[image img_src="https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/12\/2014summer-taste1.jpg" img_id="385" ]Dr. Carolyn Ross, Ph.D. Professor and Director of the WSU Sensory Science Center, School of Food Science.\u00a0 cfross@wsu.edu Since starting at WSU in 2004, Dr. Ross has established her lab and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1332,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_category":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_category?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfs.wsu.edu\/sensory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}