I’m Interested In Food Science

If you’ve heard of food science and ended up on this website, I’m here to break down the podcasts and articles we use on the show to help you learn more about the profession.

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Podcasts

What is Food Science?

Giving Student Advice

Interview with Adam Yee

Articles

On Graduate School

4 Things to Research When Deciding to Go To Graduate School

10 Things I Learned From Interviewing Graduate Students (Part 1)

10 Things I Learned From Interviewing Graduate Students (Part 2)

On Getting a Job

How to Hustle an Internship in College

How to Meet People in the FDA

How to Get a Full Time Job From an Internship

Resume Tips for Beginning Food Scientists

On Making the Most of College

What to do Your First Semester in College

How to Get Free Food In College

How To Start a Product Development Team in College

Do Grades Matter? 

Graduate Student Series

Interest in Graduate School? We have 9 interviews from graduate students all over the world talking about how to be in graduate school and how to apply.

Jocelyn Ngo – R and D Food Scientist at Day Lea Foods and Student at Chapman

Amy DeJong – Student at University of Wisconsin

Caroline Campbell – Student at North Carolina State University

Audrey Girard – Student at Texas A and M

John Gleeson – Student at University College Dublin

Deepak Kumar – Student at Oklahoma State

Fiona Salim – Student at  University of Wageningen

Eleni Gallata – Student at University of Missouri

Cathrine Boyles and Meghan Marchuk – Students at Cornell University (MPS)

Check out our Graduate Student Series for more info about Graduate School!

Really Cool Jobs

Here are a couple of interviews that are extremely inspiring and might just motivate you to get a career in the food industry.

Missy Schaaphok, Nutritionist at Taco Bell

Brian Gouldsbury, Senior Research Scientist at Krave Jerky

Tiffany Lau, Food Safety Auditor at NSF

Dino Borri, Vice President of Purchasing at Eataly

Tiffany Tong, Business Developer Lead at Canada’s Smartest Kitchen