Another year has gone by quickly. We are proud of our accomplishments and are pleased with our success in 2009. Some of the lab’s accomplishments include the AOCS Honored Student Award awarded to Megan Tippetts, a MS student and current PhD student in our lab. Another of our MS students, Jenifer Thurgood, graduated in May 2009 and is currently working for Lofthouse Foods in Ogden, UT. The dedication of our people was recognized by the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences and the College of Agriculture with an award to Dr. Silvana Martini for Faculty Researcher of the Year.
The lab continues to grow and we are happy to welcome some of our newest members. Ricardo Tejeda joined our lab in September as an undergraduate student. Vern Hart, joined the lab in December as a Research Assistant while completing his Ph.D. in the Physics Department. All these new additions were possible thanks to the financial support of several multinational companies, federal grants, and private agency funding, and funding from Utah State University.
As usual, Curtis Maughan is taking care of the sensory lab. The cheese and meat descriptive panel and the consumer panels are keeping him busy. Also, our descriptive panelists (meat and cheese) must be thanked for the service they provide to the Department, the University and the community in general.
Other members of the lab, such as Suyapa, Rebekah, and Richard are making progress in their projects and we are looking forward to publish their data in 2010. Last, but not least, we will like to congratulate Jiwon Lee for graduating this December and hope that she will be back in the Department as a graduate student next Fall.
As you can see, lots of things happened this year, and we hope that next year will be as productive as this one!
Have a Happy Holiday Season!
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