Introducing Our Advisory Board Scientists

Question: What’s the difference between chemistry and food science? 

Answer: In chemistry, you don’t lick the spoon.” 

This message hangs in Dr. Allen’s office, and it truly belongs there since this valuable member of our site’s Advisory Board started her college career as a chemistry major and later switched to the field of food science.  That change was not a big leap; food science, after all, is just one example of chemistry in action.

Are plastics really the key to a successful future, as a young Dustin Hoffman was advised in The Graduate?The following story has one answer.

Dr. Timothy Bowser volunteered and was selected to spend part of his summer in Tajikistan (in Central Asia) advising small business farmers  and helping them find solutions to some of  their operational problems.  His work there became a win-win situation.