It’s almost flu season, and one popular herbal supplement for immune support is ginseng. But what if your supplement contains undeclared ingredients? Ginseng products are vulnerable to fraud, with cheaper plant materials substituted for genuine ingredients, posing risks to consumer health and safety. However, effective methods for identifying adulteration and fraud in ginseng products have
Students and faculty from the Schmid College of Science and Technology will be at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Long Beach, California in August. Among those presenting are Patricia Lopes, associate professor of biological sciences, who will chair an organized oral session on the ecology of disgust, which explores how
The Custom Flavors Scholars in Food Science fellowship will provide support to up to three currently enrolled students in Chapman’s food science program.
Yakir Aharanov, the James J. Farley Professor in Natural Philosophy, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. The elected fellows, recognized for their invaluable contributions to science, are leaders in their fields and come from all parts of the world. Other elected Royal Society fellows include Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Dorothy
Chapman researchers found that some dietary supplements may contain undeclared ingredients and companies may mislead consumers with questionable health claims and poor labeling practices.
Faculty in Schmid College of Science and Technology have been recognized with a number of university awards this spring: Rosalee Hellberg, associate professor of food science, has been recognized with the university’s Award in Mentorship of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity. Students in Hellberg’s lab have worked on projects ranging from developing methods for detecting
Anuradha Prakash, professor of food science, has been featured amongst Orange County Business Journal’s Women in STEM. In addition to her longstanding academic research program, Prakash leads one of the few food science testing laboratories in the region. In this role, she regularly works with new and established businesses who are developing new products. Recent
Lorena Munoz ’24, Noelle Clark ’24 and Emma Kocik ’22 were among a select group of students nationwide recognized with honorable mentions for their applications for Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Oliver Lopez, instructional associate professor of mathematics, has been appointed as a primary member of Kaiser Permanente’s Institutional Review Board for
Widely used processing methods may affect a nutritional component of dairy products that could be critical for development, healing and bone health.
Scientists and engineers from Schmid College of Science and Technology and the Fowler School of Engineering were on the move once again in January, presenting research at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) and the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER West). At SABER West, seven