Food science doctoral students, Arda Tuhanioglu and Sumanjot Kaur, each placed second in the IFT national oral presentation competition, while assistant professor Ali Ubeyitogullari was awarded the Volunteer Award IFT Food Engineering Division Outstanding Volunteer.
Ali Ubeyitogullari, assistant professor of food engineering, was part of a team that attended the FIRST Center for Food Professionals Event and Expo in Chicago in July, and two of his graduate students take second place in presentation competitions.
Food engineering medical students Arda Tuhanioglu and Sumanjot Kaur each placed second in the IFT oral competition categories while Ubeyitogullari received the IFT Food Engineering Division Outstanding Volunteer Award.
Tuhanioglu was second in the Department of Food Engineering with “Selective selection of wax from the side of bioethanol production with the highest carbon dioxide: Thermal characterization and modeling;” and Kaur was second in the Department of Nutrition for “In vitro digestion of protein aerogels produced from bran protein degraded by high carbon dioxide technology”.
Thuy Trang Nguyen, who was a visiting MS student at Ubeyitogullari’s Food Engineering for Health Lab, presented “Effects of 3D printed food using rice-based protein printing.”
In addition, Safoura Ahmadzadeh, a recent associate of the doctor, presented “Coaxial 3D printing for encapsulating lutein into starch-zein gels: Improving stability and bioaccessibility.”
Ubeyitogullari presented “A New Method of 3D Food Printing to Encapsulate Bioactive Compounds.”
Ubeyitogullari is a faculty member in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Science in the Department of Food Science. He is also a researcher and scientist at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, a research arm of the U of A System Division of Agriculture.
IFT is an international, non-profit scientific organization of professionals working in food science, food technology and related areas in academia, government and industry, with more than 15,000 members.
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