2023
November Friendship Donations Network Food Drive
Joshua Scott, GRA in the Goddard research group, lead a food drive for the Friendship Donations Network this November. Graduate student offices participated in the drive, with the Goddard group making the most contributions to the effort (181 donations)! Overall, more than 400 food and personal care items were donated by Food Science students this year. For more information about the Friendship Donations Network and programs served by this organization in the Ithaca, NY area, visit Friendship Donations Network.
Congratulations, Ian Kay, PhD 2023!
Halloween in Stocking Hall
Summer Scholar Program, June-August 2023
Christelle Rippen, Goddard group GRA, mentored Megan Jen this year as part of the CU Food Science Summer Scholar Program. Funded by the NYS Pollution Prevention Institute RIT), the project was presented during a Student Packaging Research “Keep it Fresh Food Waste” Symposium at Binghamton University, NY. Local station Binghamton News Channel 34 interviewed them, which you can view here.
May 2023 Graduate Halle Redfearn
Members of the Goddard and Nugen groups celebrate the achievement of our recent graduate, Dr. Halle Redfearn!
2022
2022 Cornell Food Science Summer Scholar Program
Yareliz Rivera, CFSSS participant in the Goddard lab this summer, presents her research project to develop a biocatalyst with improved stability within a wide range of processing conditions.
2022 Gordon Research Conference Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems
The Goddard and Nugen lab teams (both former and current members!) were well-represented during this year’s Gordon Research Conference, with our own Julie Goddard as one of the Chairs of the conference.
Back row: Elizabet Moreno Reyes, Joshua Scott, Bingcan Chen, Juhong Chen, Tom Kasputis, Yawen He
Front row: Karishni Veerabahu Pillai, Antje Bäumner, Julie Goddard, Ashlyn Eileen Lightbown
So Proud! May 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah S. Zurier on an impressive job defending her dissertation research! Profs Julie Goddard and Sam Nugen and the GNU-BIOENG group celebrated her success with a toast outside Stocking Hall.
“Whip Up Your Proteins!”, Food Science Day at the Ithaca Sciencenter April 30, 2022!
Sonia Su and Joshua Scott volunteered at the Ithaca Sciencenter for their food science day (Saturday, April 30th, 2022) where they explained/demonstrated how foams can be made by whipping egg whites. The proteins in the egg whites denature upon mixing, leaving an entangled protein network to capture air molecules being mixed in – giving us a foam! These Goddard group grad students had fun and shared knowledge about food chemistry while representing the CALS Food Science Department Food Science Community Outreach Committee.
The Goddard Group February 2022
The Goddard research group in front of the CU Food Science Department, Stocking Hall, February 2022.
Goddard group meeting January 2022
Goddard group meeting January 2022. Intriguing research topics to make your head spin!
2021
BIOENG Group Fall Hike 2021
Outdoors, fresh air, soup & bread on a cold yet sunny November Sunday! The Goddard and Nugen family hosted a group hike from their backyard through the Cornell Plantations Monkey Run Natural Area . After a muddy yet fun trek, the group met back at Sam and Julie’s house for black bean soup, sausage kale soup, and bread.
Goddard and Nugen groups, AKA “The BIOENG Family” take to the woods for a fall hike.
Goddard Group Summer 2021
Katie Hufziger, Hannah Zurier, Zhixin Wang, Jose Hector Ramirez Suarez, Joshua Scott, Ian Kay, Elizabet Moreno Reyes, Autumn Rudlong, Julie Goddard.
May 2021 Graduation
Congratulations to the Unstoppable Class of 2021!
Congratulations to our own Noah Doshna Doshna on earning his Bachelor of Science Degree in Food Science!
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Goddard Group CALS Class of 2021 Undergraduate Student Noah Doshna
Cornell CALS has recognized our own Noah Doshna in a Spotlight feature story “Celebrating the CALS Class of 2021” ! Read more about Noah’s journey as an undergraduate student at Cornell and his reflections on being a Cornellian.
Noah Doshna extruding polymer formulations.
Noah has worked with the Goddard team for a good part of his time at Cornell, delving into the world of antimicrobial material research. You may have seen him in the lab before dawn taking bacterial growth curve measurements, up to his eyebrows in hundreds of poured agar plates needed for his experiments, or wrestling with the monster extruder to get it to behave. He was independently awarded (twice!) research funds to help in his work, and we expect his research to be published soon.
Noah has quickly become a leader in our group, showing others how to use equipment, apply methodology, and analyze data, and has always been there to lend a hand with anything needed. We wish him the best on the next stage of his professional journey!
March 2021
While we are still operating under a pandemic, the beat goes on in the Goddard group!
On March 12, 2021, Julie Goddard was a Keynote speaker and moderator at the eCornell event “Unwrapping Food Waste, Innovative Packaging Solutions” Joining her were Kai Robertson (Senior Corporate Sustainability Advisor and Food Waste Expert), Paola Appendini (Principal Packaging Engineer, Global Packaging, Mars Inc.), and Toby Thomas (President and CEO, SoFresh Inc.). View a recording of the seminar here on YouTube.
Six Goddard group students had work published as of March, 2021. Visit Julie Goddard’s Google Scholar page to find links to group research papers published in Bioconjugate Chemistry, Food and Bioproducts Processing, Journal of Appiled Polymer Science, and Journal of Food Science Education.
2020
The COVD-19 pandemic may have changed the way the Goddard group had to work and interact, but it didn’t stop us from achieving our goals, winning honors and awards, publishing cutting-edge research, and participating in outreach and other educational events. Here’s just some of what happened:
January 2020
Autumn Rudlong visited Tamil Nadu Agricultural University along with rural farms and many small food producers while taking part in an immersive food production and development experience focused on developing nations (Cornell University course FDSC 6020/IARD 6020 International Agriculture in Developing Nations).
2020 Autumn Rudlong, India
Julie Goddard received the Marcel Loncin Research Prize from IFT, which honors and awards selected scientists and engineers research funding for basic chemistry, physics, or engineering research applied to food processing and improvement of food quality.
July 9, 2020, Jason Lin and Julie Goddard (Cornell University assignee) published US Patent No. US20200216708A1, “Curable Polymeric Coatings for Functional Surface Preparations”.
Jason Lin setting up a polymer synthesis apparatus.
Hannah Zurier, PhD candidate, published cutting edge research in ACS Applied Bio Materials “Engineering Biorthogonal Phage-Based Nanobots for Ultrasensitive, In Situ Bacteria Detection. Hannah’s paper was featured as cover art! Visit Julie Goddard’s Google Scholar page for links to additional published research on topics such as biodegredation of microplastics and active packaging solutions to reduce food waste.
Noah Doshna, Undergraduate Research Assistant II, earned 1st place in the 2020 IFT Undergraduate Research Competition for his undergraduate research project “Antimicrobial Active Packaging Synthesized Through Reactive Extrusion”.
Goddard group meetings during 2020 take on a new face
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BioEng group facemasks make their debut
BIOENG group face masks
Graduation, May 2020
Congratulations to Joshua Herskovitz on graduating in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic! Good wishes were still able to be provided by Dr. Goddard, with appropriate social distancing practiced!
Julie congratulates Joshua Herskovitz while practicing social distancing!
2019
Graduation, December 2019
Congratulations to Jingjie Qi and Qinyuan Zhang (Zhandra) on graduating with Masters of Professional Studies!
Jingjie and Julie
Zhandra, Julie, Jingjie
Student Awards: Spring 2019 Food Science Advisory Council
Noah Doshna, Joshua Herskovitz, and Zhixin Wang were among the CU Food Science Department students to receive recognition this year. Awards were presented during the Spring 2019 Food Science Advisory Council Meeting Award Ceremony for Undergraduate & Graduate Students and Excellence in Teaching.
Noah Doshna, winner of the Food Science Advisory Council Undergraduate Award, for excellence in academic achievement.
Zhixin Wang, winner of the Western New York Iinstitute of Food Technologists Award, in recognition of outstanding food science students who are members of the Western NY IFT division.
Joshua Herskovitz, winner of the JPA Scholarship Foundation in recognition of student interest in the fruit juice industry, sponsored by Welch’s.
Joshua Herskovitz, recipient of research support from the Henry and Ruth Herzog Graduate Research Fund.
Student Awards: North Atlantic Regional IFTSA College Bowl
The Cornell Food Science College Bowl team won the North Atlantic Regional IFTSA College Bowl competition this year.
Hannah Zurier and the 7 other team members will compete this summer with seven other regional teams during the IFT 2019 annual meeting.
2018
Celebrating our “littlest” lab member’s birthday!
Happy 9th birthday, Emma Ma!
14th Conference of Food Engineering (2018 CoFE), Minneapolis, MN
Professor Goddard presented “Clean Label Active Packaging” at the September, 2018 ISEKI-Food Association Conference of Food Engineering, held at Minneapolis, MN.
Congratulations to the 2018 Graduates!
Professor Goddard’s students: (second from left) Zhuangsheng (Jason) Lin, (fifth from left) Stephanie Andler, and (last on the right) Zhixin Wang
The whole group celebrates after the thesis defenses!
May 2018
Congratulations to Troy Hinkley and Stephanie Andler (GNU BIOENG group – Goddard Nugen PhD candidate team), who won this year’s Cornhole competition at the annual CU Food Science Department picnic!
April 2018
Congratulations to Jason Lin for receiving the Graduate Teaching Assistant Honorable Mention award from the Cornell University Department of Food Sciences!
February 2018
The Goddard and Nugen Bioeng Group held a fun baby shower for Jason, soon to be a new father! Julie provided about 100 diapers (the amount Jason will need at least twice weekly!) which were made into a crazy diaper cake for Jason and his wife. Congratulations, Jason!
2017
August 2017
Josh Herskovitz, presenting his research at the 254th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, held August 20-24, 2017 in Washington, DC.
July 2017
Can you tell what is different between these two images? We will miss Julia Wu, our MPS student with the amazing Photoshop talent that made this brain teaser possible!
The Bioeng Hot Pot dinner, now a group tradition! A fun way to say farewell and best wishes to our friends, MPS students Julia Wu and San Ly and post doc Juhong Chen, who will soon be leaving to continue their career paths.
June 2017
IFT 2017
Jason, Maxine, Paul, Michael…a mini UMass reunion!
Jason presents his award-winning poster at the IFT annual meeting 2017 in Vegas.
Jason gives a talk on using active packaging to enable clean labeling with a group of packaging experts at IFT2017.
May 2017
Congratulations, Anne Hung and Paul Castrale, for successfully defending their Masters Thesis!
Congratulations, Stephanie Andler, for winning the 2016-2017 Academic Year Cornell Food Science Department Outstanding TA award!
Josh Herskovitz cracks the incubator code!
Last year when the Goddard lab was outfitting their new location at Cornell, we obtained a previously used incubator from another lab at the University that had closed. Unfortunately, the incubator requires a password to set the temperature, rotation, and incubation time, and no information could be found.
1 year later, PhD student Josh Herskovitz decided to crack the code! Within minutes, he had the password figured out and the incubator going! Thanks, Josh! Why did we wait so long to ask for your help?
2016
February 2016
Julie and Sam participate in ‘Navigating Your Future’ dual career panel.
2016 Ice skating
2016 Goddard Group in the Amherst Lab
2016 Congratulations, Maxine, for winning several AOCS Awards
2015 Maxine, Stephanie, and Julie chat with Peter Salmon at IFT
2015 Dana visits the USDA as part of her National Needs Fellowship
2015 Congressman James McGovern announces recent USDA grant
2015 Bioeng spring picnic
2015 Bioeng enjoys dim sum in Boston during -ACS
2014 Congratulations Dana and Maxine on winning awards at IFT
2014 Bioeng happy hour
2013 Bioeng celebrates Fangs defense
