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The Department of Food Science is working diligently to update its database to keep you, our alumni and friends, connected. We are unveiling our new annual newsletter this summer, and have been frequently keeping our electronic newsletter subscribers updated. Please follow this LINK to update your personal information to ensure you will receive our newsletters. Thank you for taking the time to complete the form.

It has been an exciting year for the Food Science Department!  Phil Nelson winning the World Food Prize was celebrated last fall in Iowa, at Purdue, and in at the Indiana Governor’s mansion!  The year also has been eventful because of our department review, an event that comes about every five-six years.  This review gave us a chance to examine where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we’re going.  The strategic plan we developed in 2002 served us well over the past six years, and guided us as we prepared for our department review.  We’ve made a great deal of progress over the past six years in all of our mission areas:  learning, discovery, and engagement.  We’ve made significant improvements in our undergraduate and graduate curricula, and we’ve increased the number, quality, and diversity of our students.  Our research capacity has increased with new faculty, and we have many cutting-edge research areas being pursued.  Just this year we had two new faculty members begin, who have primary research appointments.  Our extension/engagement efforts have greatly expanded in the past few years, with new faculty and new programs.  With input received from the external team that reviewed our department, we will finalize our strategic plan for 2008-2012.  We look forward to the celebrations coming this fall - - 25 year anniversary of the department and 10 year anniversary of the Food Science Building.  We will keep you up to date on those events on our website and with electronic news releases.  To read more about news from the department that we reported in our 2008 annual newsletter, click here.  If you do not receive our annual newsletter by mail and/or our electronic newsletters, please contact our Administrative Director, Laurie Swift, with your correct mailing address and email address.