Food Science Flourishes on Campus

Credit the Food Network, celebrity chefs, and contemporary food movements (organic, local, and sustainable) with raising Americans’ food IQ, creating a heightened awareness that appears to be translating into boom times for the discipline of food science. At college campuses across the United States, undergraduate food science programs are showing substantial enrollment increases.

Statistics published in a 2007 Food Technology article show that in 2004 and 2005, the total numbers of students grad…