2000 IFT Student Competition Winners & Finalists

Winners of the following student competitions were announced during the IFT Annual Meeting in Dallas, Tex., June 10–14, 2000. Descriptions of the competitions are available via the IFT Web site (www.ift.org/iftsa/competitions) or the IFT e- XPRESS fax-back service (phone 800-234-0270).

Undergraduate Research Paper Competition
Sponsored by the IFT Student Association, Phi Tau Sigma Honorary Society, and Taco Bell. 1st place, Rebecca Montville, Rutgers U.; 2nd place, Rana M. Rekeweg, Purdue U.; 3rd place, Lacey Johannes, U. of Nebraska.

Graduate Research Paper Competition
Sponsored by the IFT Student Association, Phi Tau Sigma, and Procter & Gamble Co. 1st Place, Robert Brannen, U. of Massachusetts; 2nd place, Courtney Hopper, Ohio State U.; 3rd place, Sarah Smith, Michigan State U.

Biotechnology Division Poster Competition
1st place, Li Tang, Cornell U.

Manfred Kroger Dairy Foods Division Competition
1st place, Melissa Fenn, N.C. State U.; 2nd place, Alicea A. Glueck, Mississippi State U.; 3rd place, Andres J. Pastorino, Utah State U.; runnerups, Heather Hudson, North Carolina State U., and Brian Barnes, U. of Georgia.

Food Chemistry Division Competition
1st place, Ratjika Chanamai, U. of Massachusetts; 2nd place, Wannee Chabpattana, Kansas State U.; 3rd place, Nai Chi Siu, U. of Hong Kong.

Food Engineering Division
Winners, Sajid H. Alavi, Cornell U., and Chia-Hua Hsu, U. of Delaware.

Z. John Ordal Food Microbiology Division Oral Paper Competition
1st place, Percey B. Twine Jr., Penn. State U.

John C. Ayres Food Microbiology Division Poster Competition
1st place, Sangeetha Parameswaran, Penn State U.; 2nd place, Mou-Chieh Kao, Cornell U.; 3rd place, Leonard L. Williams, Alabama A&M U.

Food Packaging Division
1st place, Michael Chan, U. of California-Davis; runnerups, Runginee Sothornit, U. of California-Davis, and Jack L. Wiles, Clemson U.

Fruit & Vegetable Products Division Poster Competition
1st place, Kawaijit Tandon, U. of Georgia; 2nd place, Carole Auge, French National Institute of Agricultural and Engineering Sciences; 3rd place, Lisa Papageorge, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/ARS.

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Muscle Foods Division Competition
1st place, Shuqing Zhang, Auburn U.; 2nd place, Cheng-Ta Li, Ohio State U.; 3rd place, Amy L. Phillips, U. of Connecticut.

Nutrition Division Competition
1st place, Kwok-Yu Ng, U. of Guelph; 2nd place, Martha Verghese, Alabama A&M U.; 3rd place, Oliver (Chung-Yen) Chen, Virginia Tech.

Product Development Division Poster Competition
1st place, Puntarika Ratanatriwong, D.L. Chow, and S.Q. Li, Ohio State U.; 2nd place, Paula Kimbirauskas, U. of Wyoming; 3rd place, Antonio Zenere, U. of Georgia.

Seafood Technology Division Competition
1st place, Isabelle Dufresne, McGill U.; 2nd place, Hakan Calik, Oregon State U.; 3rd place, Robin King, Virginia Tech.

Rose Marie Pangborn Sensory Evaluation Division Competition
1st place, Soo-Yeun Lee, U. of California-Davis; 2nd place, Han-Bin Chen, Cornell U.; 3rd place, Susan Albright, Colorado State U.

Toxicology & Safety Evaluation Division Competition
1st place, Lingyun Chen, U. of Georgia; 2nd place, Firibu K. Saalia, U. of Georgia, and Hanseung Shin, Michigan State U.

George F. Stewart International Division Research Paper Competition
1st place, Karen S. Tang, U. of British Columbia; 2nd place, Mavis W.Y. Chung, U. of British Columbia; 3rd place, Wajira S. Ratnayake, Memorial U. of Newfoundland.

Student Chapter-of-the-Year Competition
Sponsored by the IFT Student Association and General Mills, Inc. 1st place, North Carolina State U.; 2nd place, Rutgers U.; 3rd place, Cornell U.

Food Technology College Bowl Competition
Sponsored by the IFT Student Association and General Mills, Inc. 1st place, North Carolina State U. (team members Jeff Resch, captain, Nick Huemmer, Jon Firebaugh, Jack Davis, alternate, and Amanda Dees, alternate); 2nd place, U. of Minnesota (team members Craig Sherwin, captain, Nicole Fitch, Ania Temoschat, Amy Au Yeung, and Jia Wee); 3rd place U. of Wisconsin-Madison (team members Lincoln Lim, captain, Rae Dawn Rippernen, Elizabeth Behring, Chetan Rao, Achyuth Hassan, alternate, and Derek Held, alternate).

Product Development Competition
Sponsored by the IFT Student Association and M&M/Mars, Inc. 1st place, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for development of Coffee Capps (team members Maureen Cheng, Jennifer Grady, Glinda Lofton, Lynn Magden, Terry Moros, and Nicole Romero); 2nd place, U. of Wisconsin-Madison for development of Chomp (team members James Colby, Achyuth Hassan, Laura Lebak, Asher Streets, and Andrew Wilcox); 3rd place, Utah State U. for development of Whey Krunchers (team members Andrea Hale, Carrie Frandsen, Seung-Hee Nam, Bradley Jay Taylor, and Rex Todd).

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