Impact

     The Institute of Food Science and Engineering and its technology centers grew from our commitment to finding creative ways to bring the expertise and resources of the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture to bear on specific problems and issues that affect productivity and growth in the food processing industry. 

    This is an institute without walls in the sense that it is not housed in any particular building.  In fact, it could be described as anti-wall because it brings together people and resources from different organizations.  It fosters cooperative, multi-disciplinary, multiagency efforts.  It creates partnerships among private sector companies, the University and government granting agencies.  

      The work of the Institute and its technology centers is research to solve problems, technology transfer to put new information to work, and education in problem-solving skills needed by specific industries.

Dr. Milo J. Shult

Vice President for Agriculture

    The Institute of Food Science and Engineering was founded on the concept of making the research and Extension expertise of the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture more accessible to the food industry. The Institute has successfully done so by promoting alliances between the food industry and the University. This "demand driven" approach has been described by Dr. Milo Shult, Vice President for Agriculture, as assuring that Division of Agriculture resources are "applied to projects with a direct, positive impact on the value-added processing of food products." By working together with industry, Institute-affiliated scientists not only accomplish more, but are able to put new technology to work more quickly.

     IFSE efforts to encourage relationships between the food industry and IFSE-affiliated scientists have not only provided a mechanism for enhnacing efforts to solve problems affecting the food industry but have also aided in strengthening the infrastructure of our research laboratories. This has had a positive impact on everyone concerned. These partnenrships have resulted in more than 250 research publications and 13 publications in other formats. A list of these publications, grouped by subject matter area, can be viewed through the Publications link on this website.

Dr. Justin R. Morris

Director, Institute of Food Science

and Engineering and Center for

Food Processing and Engineering

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Impact Report - 2003

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     The Institute of Food Science and Engineering is a unit within the Division of Agriculture (Milo J. Shult, Vice President), University of Arkansas System, and is sponsored by the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service (Ivory W. Lyles, Associate Vice President - Extension), the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (Mark J. Cochran, Associate Vice President - Experiment Station) and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences (Gregory J. Weidemann, Dean/Associate Vice President - Academic Programs).