Career Development Archive

04 December

Starting the Conversation: An Interview with Maria Velissariou, Chief Scientific Officer at IFT (Part 1)

By: Amanda Sia, Abbie Sommer and Mackenzie Hannum Featured Image by Pickwriters As a young girl in Greece, Maria Velissariou never imagined she would end up as Vice President for PepsiCo Nutrition R&D with responsibility for global grains, dairy and...

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20 November

Crowdsourcing for Food Scientists

To bridge the gap between academia, industry and the public at large, crowdsourcing for all food-related problems could be a good fit. Making case studies revolving around food science publicly available may lead to efficient problem-solving platforms. Crowdsourcing could...

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06 February

At The Table – Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

BY: PRAVEENA THIRUNATHAN & LILY YANG How did the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) come about? How does this affect the job market of food scientists? What can we look forward to for the future of FSMA? Tune in...

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05 December

Visit to the UK (BRI Campden)

BY: ANNA WEST WALLER In this post Anna Waller, PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (USA) and winner of the 2018 Campden BRI IFTSA Thesis Video competition, talks about her sponsored trip to UK. The trip spanned...

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31 October

Six Reasons Why… You Should Study Food Science (Version 2.0)

By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered In the past five years, the wonderful world of food has changed drastically. A new wave of food creation is coming, with the impending revolution of cellular agriculture, synthetic...

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24 October

An Interview with Mona Wolf, President and CEO of Wolf Group, and a founding member of the Society of Sensory Professionals (SSP).

BY: ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER & MACKENZIE HANNUM How one woman started a sensory consulting business when there was no place for a woman in Corporate America. Where it all started… Mona Wolf grew up in Southern Indiana. She was a...

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17 May

Cracking the [Food] Code

BY: NICOLE ARNOLD On February 12, 2018, the 9th edition of the Food Code was released as the 2017 FDA Model Food Code and, like Kim Kardashian, it nearly broke the Internet! Just kidding. Not sure many people even...

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18 January

No, I’m not a chef or nutritionist: Food Science in the eyes of a Non-Food Scientist

BY: MACKENZIE HANNUM “What is food science?” Don’t get me wrong, I love food science. I love it enough in fact to be getting a PhD in it, however over the years I have begun to grow slightly cynical...

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01 November

Turning Passion Into a Career

By Danielle “GreenEyedGuide” Rath Did you want to be a Food Scientist when you were growing up? As a teen or young adult, did you even know what a Food Scientist does on a daily basis? While it seems...

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27 September

Of Flavors and Flavorists

By Bryan Quoc Le | 150 Food Science Questions Answered Flavors of the Grocery Aisle When I get a chance to actually take my time while grocery shopping, sometimes I like to just peruse the aisles and read through the...

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