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From left: Arda Tuhanioglu, assistant professor of food science Ali Ubaitgulari, Sumanjot Kaur and Nafisa Sadaf.
Arda Tuhanioglu, Sumanjot Kaur and Nafisah Sadaf, all food science graduate students at the University of Alberta, were recognized at the American Oil Chemists’ Society Annual Meeting & Expo in Montreal, Canada, in May.
Tuhanioglu won first place in the poster competition in the Processing category, as well as the Audience Choice Best Poster award for his presentation, “Selective Extraction of Wax from Bioethanol Production By-Products with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: Thermal Characterization and Modeling.”
Kaur was awarded the Health and Nutrition Student Excellence Award. Kaur’s presentation, “In Vitro Digestion of Protein Aerogels Produced from Defatted Rice Bran Proteins by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Technology,” was also published in the May issue of INFORM, the official magazine of the American Oil Chemists’ Society.
Sadaf advanced to the finals of the poster competition in the Proteins and By-Products category. Sadaf’s presentation was “Impact of a novel drying method based on supercritical carbon dioxide on the physicochemical properties of sorghum protein.”
Tuhanioglu and Kaur are both doctoral students and Sadaf is a master’s student in the Dale Bumpers College of Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences.
All three are supervised by Ali Ubeyitogullari, assistant professor of food engineering, director of the Food Engineering for Health Lab (foodeng4health.uark.edu) at the University of Arkansas, who holds joint appointments in the Food Science and Biological and Agricultural Engineering departments, and is a research scientist at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, a research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
The 2024 AOCS conference took place from April 28 to May 1 at the Montreal Congress Center in Quebec, Canada.
The American Oil Chemists’ Society advances the science and technology of oils, fats, proteins, surfactants and related materials to enrich lives around the world.
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