Yaxi Hu (Food Science) Receives the Donald A. Withycombe Graduate Fellowship Award at the 255th ACS Conference

Congratulations to our Food Science PhD student Yaxi Hu (supervisor: Dr. Xiaonan Lu) who received the 1st place of the graduate student competition last night and won the Donald A. Withycombe Graduate Fellowship Award at the 255th American Chemistry Society Annual Meeting, the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division in New Orleans.

Her presentation is entitled “Development of innovative techniques for food authentication – the last barrier to prevent food fraud”. The other five finalists are senior PhD students from Department of Food Science at UMass, UCDavis and Cornell University.