Annual Meeting & FOOD EXPO®—Student Winners

Winners of the following student competitions were announced at the Phi Tau Sigma Honorary Society Breakfast during the IFT Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La., June 23–27, 2001. Descriptions of the competitions are available via the IFT Web site ( www.ift.org/iftsacompetitions ) 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. 1^st place, Matt Glaser, Oregon State U.; 2^nd place, Caitlin Boon, North Carolina State U.; 3^rd place, Angelina Perez, Purdue U. Shown from left are Boon, Russell Hazen (Student Association President), Perez, Mary Ellen Camire (Phi Tau Sigma President), Siow Ying Tan (honorable mention), Juan Silva (Phi Tau Sigma Secretary), Crystal Pass (honorable mention), and Alberto Sun, North Dakota State U. (competition chair)

Graduate Research Paper Competition
Sponsored by the IFT Student Association, Phi Tau Sigma, and Procter & Gamble Co. 1^st place, Stacey M. Kappes, U. of Illinois, 2^nd place, Chow-Ming Lee, U. of Georgia, 3^rd place, Han Tutanathorn, Cornell U. Shown from  left are Kappes, Y. Han (honorable mention), Lee, Arasu Annamali (honorable mention), Tutanathorn, and Chia Lee, Cornell (competition chair)

Biotechnology Division Poster Competition
Oral: 1^st place, Ming-Ni Hung, McGill U., 2^nd place, Miguel Duarte-Vazquez, U. Autonoma de Queretara ; Poster: 1^st place, Preethi Shetty, U. of Massachusetts, 2^nd place, Sabina Maza Gomez, Louisiana State U. Shown from left are Shetty, Richard M. Basel of Lebensmittel Consulting (division representative), and Hung

Carbohydrate Division Competition 
1^st place, Tor S. Nordmark, Pennsylvania State U., 2^nd place, Mooyeo Baik, U. of Massachusetts

Manfred Kroger Dairy Foods Division Competition
1^st place, Lauren Franssen, U. of California-Davis, 2^nd place, Kristen Dangaran, U. of California-Davis, 3^rd place, Matthew McGuffey, North Carolina State U. runnersup, Heather Hutson, North Carolina State U., Mukul Juneja, Cornell U., Jae-Eun Ahn, McGill U. Shown from left are Franssen, Ahn, Dangaran, Hudson, McGuffey, Stacy Kimmel (McCormick representative), Manfred Kroger of Penn State U. (competition namesake), and Lisbeth Goddik of Oregon State competition chair)

Food Chemistry Division Competition
1^st place, Wilailuk Chaiyasit, U. of Massachusetts, 2^nd place, Amanda Callison, Ohio State U., 3^rd place, Kelly House, Cornell U. Shown from left are Chaiyasit and Jeff Morgan of the Environmental Protection Agency (competition chair)

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Food Engineering Division
Winners, W. Adam Tessneer, North Carolina State U., Betsy F. Willis, Purdue U. Shown from left are Tessneer, Willis, (both first), Gustavo Barbosa-Canovas (division representative), and Kumar Mallikarjunan of Va. Tech (competition chair)

Z. John Ordal Food Microbiology Division Oral Paper Competition
1^st place, Gianna Duran, Mississippi State U., 2^nd place, Yo-Shen Chen, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 3^rd place, Brigitte St Jacques, McGill U.

John C. Ayres Food Microbiology Division Poster Competition
1^st place, Arasu Annamali, U. of Connecticut, 2^nd place, Wenli Li, Mississippi State U., 3^rd place, Jaesung Lee, Ohio State U. Shown from left are Annamali, Lee, Duran, St.Jacques, and Scott Hood of Medallion Laboratories (competition chair)

Food Packaging Division 1^st place, Soo-Yeun Lee, U. of California-Davis, 2^nd place, R. Sothornvit, U. of California-Davis, 3^rd place, Nathan Franklin, Clemson U. Shown from left are Lee, Franklin, and Kay Cooksey (Division representative)

Fruit & Vegetable Products Division Poster Competition
1^st place, Julie Collins, Oklahoma State U., 2^nd place, Svetlana Zivanovic, U. of Arkansas, 3^rd place, Irene Luna-Guzman, U. of California-Davis. Shown are Luna-Guzman and Alfred Bushway of the U. of Maine (competition chair)

Muscle Foods Division Competition
1^st place, Robert G. Brannan, U. of Massachusetts, 2^nd place, Sarah E. Smith, Rutgers U., 3^rd place, Jianlin Feng, U. of Kentucky

Nutrition Division Competition
1^st place, Chung-Yen Chen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U., 2^nd place, Alison J. Edwards, Cornell U.

Product Development Division Poster Competition
1^st place, Carlyn L. Ray, North Carolina A&T State U., 2^nd place, Ziad Simon Matta, Kansas State U., 3^rd place, Deborah A. Hardy, Oklahoma State U. Shown from left are Ray, Matta, and Yaowen Huang (division representative)

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Seafood Technology Division
1^st place, Jacek Jaczynski, Oregon State U., 2^nd place, Hakan Calik, Oregon State U., 3^rd place, Yiqun Huang, Washington State U. Shown from left are Calik, Jaczynski, Huang, and Marleen Wekell of the Food and Drug Administration (competition chair)

Rose Marie Pangborn Sensory Evaluation Division Competition
1^st place, Ann-Marie A. Allison, Kansas State U., 2^nd place, Jennifer Grady, U. of Illinois, 3^rd place, Chow-Ming Lee, U. of Georgia. Shown from left are Allison, Louise Campbell of Cadbury Schweppes (competition chair)

Toxicology & Safety Evaluation Division Competition
1^st place, Firibu Saalia, U. of Georgia, 2^nd place, Lingyun Chen, U. of Georgia. Shown from left are Saalia, Chen, and Julie Nordlee of U. of Nebraska (competition chair)

George F. Stewart International Division Research Paper Competition
1^st place, Brigitte St. Jacques, McGill U., 2^nd place, Jae-Eun Ahn, McGill University, 3^rd place, D.M.Anil Gunaratne, University of Newfoundland

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

College Bowl Competition
Sponsored by the IFT Student Association and General Mills, Inc. 1^st place, (team members North Carolina State U., 2^nd place, U. of Illinois. Shown from left are Arnie Sair (NCSU representative), Meredith Agle (U. of Illinois representative), and Yizhi Meng (Cornell U.) (competition chair)

Product Development Competition 
Sponsored by the IFT Student Association and M&M/Mars, Inc. 1^st place, U. of Wisconsin-Madison for the development of Handicotti; 2^nd place, Michigan State U. for the development of Toastoritos; and 3^rd place, North Carolina State U. for the development of Munchatas. Shown from left are Achyuth Hassan, U. Wisconsin; Arnie Sair, North Carolina State U.; and Vineet Gill, Kansas State U. (competition chair)

Refrigerated & Frozen Foods Division
Scholarship winner, Lauren Franssen, U. of California-Davis. Shown from left are Franssen and Juan Silva (division and competition chair)

Acknowledgment is given to Patti Pagliuco, Field Services Associate, for contributions to this article.

by James H. Giese,
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