2011

• October: Jay was selected as a finalist in the Undergraduate Research Competition in the ACS Agricultural
and Food Chemistry Division.
• October: Julie presented "New Approaches to Food Handling Safety" at the regional American Society of Microbiology meeting ni Randolph, MA.
• June: Julie presented "Self-Sanitizing Food Processing Surfaces" in the Nanotechnology enabled food safety interventions session at the IFT Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
• June: Jeff presented "Development of inexpensive active food packaging materials by surface graft polymerization"
at the IFT Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
• May: Julie presented “Advances in Food Processing Surfaces and Bioactive Food Packaging Materials" at the Food Research Institute's 2011 Annual Spring Meeting in Madison, WI.
• May: Jay and Jeff were each recipients of 2011 IFT Feeding Tomorrow Scholarships.
• April: Fang presented her research on "“Novel Active Packaging Materials to Control Oxidation” at The Future of Food and Nutrition: A Multidisciplinary Graduate Research Conference hosted by Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University.
• January: Julie is leading a project team including co-PI Lynne McLandsborough and co-PI Joe Hotchkiss (MSU) on a research project awarded $488,000 from the USDA to design antimicrobial food processing materials.
• January: Julie was part of a team (with Lynne McLandsborough - PI, and Wes Autio - coPI) awarded $235,787 from the Center for Produce Safety to research survival, transfer, and inactivation of salmonella on plastics used in harvesting tomatoes.
• January: Jay was selected as one of two UMass undergrads to apply for the Goldwater Scholarship.

2010

• December: Liz presented her research on "Development of a food packaging film from Xylan" at the CNS symposium for undergraduate research.
• October: The Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst was recently ranked the number one Ph.D. research program in the United States by the National Research Council (NRC).  Go UMASS!!
• July: Jeff, Jay, and Julie each presented research at the 2010 Institute of Food Technologists' Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
• May: Jay has been named a finalist in the Institute of Food Technologists' Undergraduate Research Competition. Congratulations Jay!
• April: Alissa won "RA of the Year" award from the UMASS Department of Residence Life.
• April: At the Northeast Area IFT meeting, Alissa won the 2010 Undergraduate Award.
• April: Jeff presented his research on "Surface Modified Polymer Films for Active Packaging Applications" at the International Student Symposium
• Spring: Julie was interviewed for a feature on Amazing Food Science in the Spring 2010 UMass Alumni Magazine.
• January: Julie taught students from the Greenfield, MA Charter High School about Sensory and Food Processing.

2009

• October: Julie participated in the IFT Community Design Focus Group.
• June: Professor Goddard presented her research at a NanoBiotechnology Center Biosensors Workshop in Dublin, Ireland
• May: Julie presented at Better Process Control School at Cornell University in Geneva, NY.
• April: Julie attended the Strategic Alliance meeting at the Food Science Department of UMass, Amherst
• March: Professor Goddard helped kids make "cotton candy nanofibers" at NanoDay in the Ithaca, NY Sciencenter.