WINNER!!! IFT Poster Competition: Food Packaging
 2010 Scholarship recipient
Sumeet Dhawan from WSU places
first in the Food Packaging Category poster competition at the recent IFT national convention. |
Scholarship Night 2010
This year, PSIFT awarded $9,000 in scholarships. The money for the scholarships was raised at our annual Supplier's Night that was held back in February of this year. Thank you to all of our suppliers who attended the Supplier's Night event and made it possible for PSIFT to award these scholarships.
The scholarship committee (Megan Leifson, Josephine Pompey and Paul Cole) reviewed many applications. All applications must meet the criteria to be considered for an award. In the end, nine applications were selected. There are five Outstanding Student Awards and four Travel Awards. The students are from Washington State University and the University of Washington.
 Seven of the nine scholarship
recipients were able to attend the meeting. It was a great opportunity
to meet some of the up-and-comers in the food science student
population and a great event for networking.
|
 Roopesh Mohandas
Syamaladevi explains his poster to attendees. He received a travel
award to present his poster at the IFT national convention in
Chicago.
|
 Katharine Chan talks
with Hoby Douglass, sales
manager from General BioDiesel in Seattle. He spoke to the audience about alternative energy and reprocessing used cooking oils and animal fats into biodiesel for trucks and cars. |
 "Travel Awards" are presented to
Sumeet
Dhawan, Xiaonan Lu, Maria Rosales Soto, Roopesh Mohandas Syamaladevi by Scholarship committee member Paul Cole. |
 "Outstanding Student"
scholarships are presented
to Maureen McFerson, Qian Liu, Katharine Chan and Luis Castro. |
 PSIFT Scholarship committee
members
Megan Leifson and Paul Cole. |
The Scholarships and the Recipients
Outstanding Student Awards:Luis Castro is working on his M.S. in Food Science at WSU.
Maureen McFerson is a Senior at WSU in the Food Science program who is very active in the Food Science Club and works as an ambassador for the College of Agriculture and Home Economics to promote Food Science.
Katharine Chan is working on her Pharm.D at UW in the Pharmacy program. She has a BS in Biology with a minor in Food Science from Cornell University. She is very interested in microbiology and food safety. Ultimately, she would like to work for the FDA as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer.
Karen Thorsen
Qian Liu
Travel Awards:
Xiaonan
Lu is working on his Ph.D.
in
Food Science at WSU. His research is
determining the sexual maturity in white sturgeon (Acipenser
transmontanus) to maximize yield and quality of caviar.
Sumeet Dhawan
presented two posters
at IFT Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
Maria Rosales Soto is
working on her Ph.D. in Food Science at WSU and presented a
poster at IFT Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
Roopesh Mohandas Syamaladevi