Three food scientists, professor Eric Decker, Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements and professor and Clydesdale Scholar of Food Science Hang Xiao, have been recognized as among the world's most highly cited researchers in 2023. Our department is the only one on campus that has 3 faculty on the list.

Dr. Lutz Grossmann was honored Wednesday in University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with the 2023 Nils Foss Talent Prize. The Prize talent is a talented and promising upcoming scientist who has made a significant research or innovation contribution to the application of analytical technology to improve the sustainable use of agricultural resources and/or ensuring food quality and safety.

The Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was recently ranked number one in the field of food science and technology in the U.S. by the 2023 Shanghai Ranking. This ranking is based on the total contribution from the entire faculty of the food science program. The size of the faculty in the food science programs above us is about five to twenty-five times bigger than ours. We are extremely proud that our department was ranked first among the U.S.