COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES 2018 Digest Department of Food Science and Technology Food FST-280 Message from the department head Greetings, for the first time. As many of you are aware, the Food Science and Technology major is not widely known Last year, I told you about across campus. It has been very interesting to chat the new classroom (FST 27) with these students. Most will say they had no idea on which we were putting what was in this red brick building, even though they the final touches so we passed it often on their way to the “cage” and their could use it beginning in cars. Now, literally hundreds of non-FST students the spring semester of 2017. are finding our building and major. I hope to engage Joe Marcy The classroom, which holds this new audience by improving our messaging approximately 70 students, and information about FST opportunities. Virginia has been a great blessing to our department. Those Tech is in the process of changing “branding” for of you who took your food science classes in FST 132 the university with new logos for both digital and know that the room had limitations, including pump print materials. These changes are coming to our noise from the basement, uncomfortable seats and department too, so now is a very good time to update limited space. However, it was located in the FST our information and to think about how we want our building, and convenient. Not having a classroom department to be presented. large enough for our increasing FST enrollment has meant that FST classes were scattered across campus. We now have an alumni Facebook page open only to I really enjoyed having a chance to say hello, and the FST alumni and FST faculty and staff. We hope you opportunity to see how our students were doing when will join us and keep up with your friends from Virginia they came into the FST building. Now that many of Tech. In the coming year, we will push out some of our classes are in the FST building once again, there the new materials on the FST alumni page. We look are opportunities to speak with students informally, forward to hearing from you either during a visit to which has been great. campus, or online. In addition to food science classes, classes from many Best personal regards, other majors are being taught in FST 27 as well. Many of these students are trying to find the FST building Joe Marcy CONTENTS Message from the department head ................................................................1 Product Development Team Takes First Place! ............................................8 Women in Agriculture and Life Sciences Panel Discussion ................... 11 2017-2018 FST Industry Advisory Board Members .....................................2 Flick Receives CALS Hall of Fame Award .......................................................8 FSMA Preventative Controls for Human Food Workshops Our Growing Department ....................................................................................2 Effect of Soil Amendments from Antibiotic-Treated Cows for Food Processors .............................................................................................12 Spring Award Recipients .....................................................................................2 on Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria & Genes Recovered from the FSMA Produce Safety Rule Workshops for Growers ................................12 Students Learn About Global Food Security in Ecuador ...........................3 Surfaces of Lettuce & Radishes ........................................................................9 State and National FFA Food Science Career Development Events ...12 Washington Monthly’s 2017 Rankings .............................................................4 Inactivation of Salmonella and Surrogate Bacteria on Graduate Student Spends Month in Hawaii..................................................13 Fifth Annual FST poster competition ................................................................4 Cashews and Macadamia Nuts Exposed to Saturated Steam Lopez-Velasco Receives Outstanding Recent Graduate Alumna Award ..13 and Proplyene Oxide Treatments ......................................................................9 Bardsley Receives STARS Scholarship ...........................................................4 Sensory Laboratory Helps Researchers Read Emotions ........................13 Amutis Named Distinguished Alumnus ...........................................................5 International symposium on dairy cow nutrition and milk quality ........9 Impact of Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Fermentation on Composition Duncan Presents in Sydney, Australia.............................................................5 Long Chain n-3 PUFA and Oleic Acid Modification Strategies to and Concentration of Polyphenols: Development of Fermentation FFA Milk Quality and Products CDE ..................................................................5 Enhance Fillet Quality in Talpia, Oreochomis species ............................10 Model System and Utilization of Yeast Starter Cultures .........................14 Food Safety Program Launched in Armenia ..................................................6 Tapping into Extension Series: Beakers and Brews .................................10 Divis Named Outsdanding Recent Undergraduate Alumna ....................14 Students Active in IFTSA ......................................................................................6 Virginia Tech Chapter of Phi Tau Sigma.........................................................10 Annual Apple Picking Foray ................................................................................14 Blacksburg Beer Festival ......................................................................................7 Chase is Virginia Cooperative Extension State Program Leader ......... 11 Food Science Club Update .................................................................................15 Fermentation Program Approved by the MBAA ............................................7 Product Development Teams Reach the Final Round ............................... 11 Department Says Goodbye to “Tootsie Roll” ..................................................7 Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status; or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees, or applicants; or any other basis protected by law. Food Digest Department of Food Science and Technology 2018 Keller Watts Corey Berends 2017-2018 FST Senior Vice President, Business Vice President of Research and Management at Smithfield Foods Development at ConAgra Foods Industry Advisory Smithfield, Virginia Omaha, Nebraska Board Members Tulin Tuzel FST Representatives: Bob Reinhard (Chair) Chief Technology Officer at Sabra Joseph E. Marcy Vice President of Food Safety & Dipping Co LLC FST Professor and Department Quality at Tyson Foods Colonial Heights, Virginia Head Downer’s Grove, Illinois Moira McGrath Susan E. Duncan Tatiana Lorca President of OPUS International, Assistant Director of the Virginia Manager, Food Safety Education Inc., Deerfield Beach, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station & Training at Ecolab in the Food & Beverage Division, St. Paul, William (Bill) Aimutis Elizabeth Clark Minnesota Global Director of External FST Ph.D. Candidate Innovation at Cargill, Inc. Steve Franzyshen Minneapolis, Minnesota R&D and Market Development Manager at Dupont Teijin Films Shawn Theriot Hopewell, Virginia Quality Assurance Manager at Deschutes Brewery, Bend, Oregon Champlain in 2017. Her specialty Our growing is flavor chemistry. department Dan Taylor, research associate Spring award Molly Kelly, enology Extension in aquaculture research recipients specialist, accepted an enology and Extension, accepted an Sushrruti Extension position at Penn aquaculture research position Boyd-Arline Award Varatharaj State University. Her years at Dansk Skaldyrcenter in Nykøbing Mors, Denmark. of outstanding service to FST Cameron Hackney Andrea Hagan and the Virginia wine industry Memorial Mackenzie Knox are greatly appreciated. The And… Our Growing Family! Enrichment Award position is being advertised and will be filled as soon as possible. Thomas Jonathan Corey & Charlene Jackson Neilson Berends FST Colleen Dommell Scholarship Jacob Lahne came on board was born on as an assistant professor in August 29th. He FST Achievement sensory science. Prior to is the first child of Award – Meghan Ruppel coming to Virginia Tech, he Andrew Neilson Outstanding Senior served as assistant professor and his wife, Ashleigh. Neilson Pengyu Chen in the department of culinary FST Achievement Mariel Jastrebsky arts and food science at Drexel also earned tenure and was promoted to associate Award Hayley Lawrence University. Kelsey McQueen professor in April. Marvin Poster Tommy Saunders (M.S. 2017) is Meg Beatty Memorial the new food safety Extension Renee Boyer and Brianna Ong associate for the Richmond her husband, John, Scholarship area. had their second Sabra Dipping child. Marin Company Casey Feher Yun Yin joined us as a research Eversole Boyer was Scholarship assistant professor. She born on November 24th. Tyson Brands Fund Sally Abouzied completed