WSU food safety expert answers questions on baby formula shortage
Consumer food safety specialist Stephanie Smith fields questions from parents during the formula shortage.
School of Food Science
Two Fulbrights, one family
Carolyn Ross and her husband Travis Ridout will temporarily move their family to Australia in January as both WSU scientists received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards.
School of Food Science seeks next director to lead food security innovation
The director is at the heart of the School of Food Science’s land-grant mission.
The cheesemaker: Meet WSU Creamery’s Sarah Beale
‘Everyone knows Cougar Gold,’ says Beale, who leads cheesemaking on the Pullman campus
“So who does that?” Behind the scenes at WSU
They are cheesemakers, cowboys, window washers, and lab managers. Often behind the scenes and performing essential work, staff members keep the university humming along.
Fresh from WSU Extension: Freeze damage to crops; Giant hornets; flour food safety
Latest guides help farmers, landowners, beekeepers, and food preparers improve practices.
Food Science ’21 PhD Pichmony Ek breaks ground for women, discovery, and better health
Fall ’21 grad built new knowledge and helped others grow as scientists.
Trick-or-Treat Yourself: Pumpkin ice cream available at Ferdinand’s
It’s sweet, it’s orange, and it’s here while supplies last: pumpkin ice cream is now available at Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe. The first step in making pumpkin ice cream is mixing the ingredients together: raw milk, cream, sugar, dry milk, corn syrup solids, and a stabilizer. They’re mixed into the pasteurizer vat and the soon-to-be […]
Power of the puff: food scientist wins association award
If you’ve ever had breakfast cereals or puffed snacks, chances are you’ve enjoyed a product made with extrusion processing. Extrusion uses high pressure and temperature to transform raw ingredients like cornmeal, wheat or pea flour into different shapes for snacking in seconds. “Pet food, snacks, and many of the foods in our daily lives are […]
Food Science donations help students, school upgrade
This summer, the Puget Sound Institute of Food Technologists donated $100,000 to the WSU School of Food Science while also providing another $50,000 in student scholarships.
