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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SPRING 2009 GRADUATES!
L to R: Jill Fisher, Natasha Isaacs-Cosgrove, Angie Lawless, Chris Yol, Susan Linn, Cristina Rau
Watch the group receive their degrees at the May 8 MSU Commencement Ceremony by clicking here; go to the Advanced Degree video and to 1:30:32 on the timer.
Science Magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science recoginzed the Online Master of Science in Food Safety Program in an article titled, Graduate Education Professional Science Master's Program Merit Wider Support. Read article.
Professor and Packaging Expert John Spink is featured on the MSU News Special Report, watch his presentation, view here.
CONGRATULATIONS
Jennifer Greunke and Margaret Cole, Ph.D. are the first two students to complete the Graduate Certificate in Food Safety.
The Online MS in Food Safety Advisory Council has been assembled Read who they are and where they come from. Read more
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2008 FALL GRADUATES Barbara Danielewski-Nikiel
Sarah Goreham-Houston
Tim Hight
Barbara Hulick
Karen Wong-Petrie
ENTHUSAISM FOR NEW E-PAL PROGRAM The new E-Pal Program - an effort to connect current students with Alumni - has brought significant response. To learn how you can participate in E-Pal read more.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2008 SUMMER GRADUATES Usha Kalro
Mark Calhoun
Professional master's degree programs in the sciences should be expanded say a new report from the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL.Read more
Featured Alumna Alumna Lisa Ramsey wanted her applied project to be, “something that was hands-on to make it enjoyable” and something that was related to the food safety testing that was done in her lab. She was successful. So successful in fact, Lisa is the first student to have her project published. Microbiological Safety of Farmstead Cheeses Made in the United States and Purchased via Online Shopping was featured recently in Food Protection Trends.
As the Microbiology Supervisor for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Lynchburg, Regional Animal Health Laboratory (VDACS Lynchburg RAHL) in Lynchburg, VA, her laboratory performs a wide variety of testing, both regulatory and non-regulatory, on animal specimens and food products, primarily in support of Virginia's industries. For her project, Lisa ordered a total of 61 cheeses from 39 different farmstead dairies in 24 different states within the United States. Thirty from raw cow’s milk, 15 from pasteurized cow’s milk, two from raw goat’s milk, 13 from pasteurized goat’s milk and one from pasteurized sheep’s milk. Some of the cheeses where ordered directly from the producing farms and others from third party gourmet food companies. To learn of Lisa’s results you can read her published project at read more.
Spotlight:
Fall 2009
Dr. A. Mahdi Saeed, a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in the departments of Large Animal Clinical Sciences and Epidemiology has been making a lot of news lately with his discovery of a working vaccine for E coli diarrheal diseases. However, he has been outstanding in teaching and conducting research on infectious diseases and food safety for the past 24 years.
Since the inception of the MS in Food Safety Program eight years ago, Dr. Saeed has taught LCS/EPI 830, which he also designed (see overview). During the revising of the new protocols for prevention and control of salmonella and avian influenza, he also worked as a consultant to the USDA and FSIS. To learn more regarding Dr. Saeed's academic career click here.
Dr. A. Mahdi Saeed, a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in the departments of Large Animal Clinical Sciences and Epidemiology has been making a lot of news lately with his discovery of a working vaccine for E coli diarrheal diseases. However, he has been outstanding in teaching and conducting research on infectious diseases and food safety for the past 24 years.