Not knowing exactly what your career path will be can be stressful for college students. But for food science major Parker Herrera, it’s an opportunity to do what he enjoys: experiment. He loved his part-time job at The Spice & Tea Exchange in Haddonfield, New Jersey, where he helped create and sell custom spice blends and […]
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Donald Schaffner Honored with the 2021 Harold Macy Food Science and Technology Award
The 2021 Harold Macy Food Science and Technology Award was given to Donald Schaffner—extension specialist in Food Science and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food Science—in recognition of his outstanding research to facilitate the adoption of predictive food microbiology and risk-based thinking in government and private industry to support science-based risk management and assurance […]
Annual Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference Resumes Virtually for 2021
The 13th Annual Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference took place virtually on Tuesday, April 13. We welcomed 96 attendees, including 21 poster presenters, to the event. The annual NEFS Conference is the result of collaborations between the Rutgers University Nutritional Sciences, Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences, and Food Science graduate student organizations (GSOs). Graduate students in the three GSOs work […]
SEBS First-Generation Students Get a Leg up Through Academic Mentoring Class
Knowing how to launch and navigate a successful college career is challenging even for the most astute students. For students who enter academia with little knowledge of what to expect, college can feel like a quagmire. This is often the case for first-generation students – those who are the first in their immediate family to […]
A Voice of Reason During Troubled Times
The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station 2020 Annual Report spotlights the many stories of outreach and resilience during COVID-19. To read more, see the NJAES 2020 Annual Report. Don Schaffner, Distinguished Professor and extension specialist in food science, has been thinking about the risks posed by microorganisms for more than 30 years. About 20 years ago, […]
The Road from Food Science to the Jamaican Senate for Alumna Sherene Golding Campbell
Newly appointed in September 2020 as a senator in her native Jamaica, Sherene Golding Campbell is among a record number of women in that nation’s parliament: eight out of 21 Senate members, and 18 of 63 in the House of Representatives. Although Golding Campbell GSNB’02 traveled a twisting road from studying food biology to evaluating […]
Mr. Clean: Donald Schaffner Counsels the Public on Hygiene Dos and Don’ts
He debunked the “5-second rule” for dropped food on the floor (it’s not safe to eat), a finding reported worldwide in 2016. So, it’s no wonder that microbial risk assessment expert Donald Schaffner—professor at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and food science extension specialist—became the guy to weigh in on conventional wisdom, risk, and everyday […]
Rutgers entrepreneur, SEBS alumnus Juan Salinas, makes a deal on ABC’s Shark Tank
A Rutgers graduate’s sensational pitch for a deal to help grow his tasty plant-based nutritional snack secured a startling $400,000 investment from entrepreneur Mark Cuban on the latest episode of Shark Tank. Juan Salinas (CC ’91, GSNB ’94, GSNB ’00), who founded P-nuff Crunch, has undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees from Rutgers in food science […]
How to Have a Safe Halloween: SEBS Donald Schaffner Weighs In
Fear not, trick-or-treaters, Halloween is on in New Jersey. During his daily coronavirus briefing on Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy announced that traditional holiday revelry is permitted this year provided children and parents take some precautions to reduce the chances of spreading COVID-19. That includes limiting trick-or-treating groups to household members, social distancing when that is not possible and adhering […]
National Transfer Student Week: John Ricciardi, Success During COVID-19!
By John Ricciardi (SEBS’22) New Transfer Student National Transfer Student Week—every third week in October—celebrates transfer students and the professionals who support them on their journeys. Join us in recognizing those who have made this journey! #TransferStudentWeek. Here we meet John Ricciardi (SEB’22), a Food Science major. Transferring to Rutgers was a last minute decision […]