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Graduate Studies in Food Safety at Cornell: Graduate students intersted in training in food safety typically apply to and enroll in MS or PhD programs in the Graduate Field of Food Science and Technology; some graduate stduents also choose to major in the Graduate Fields of "Comparative Biomedicals Sciences" (this major is particuarly appropriate for students interested in pre-harvest food safety of animal-based foods) or "Microbiology".
Noteworthy individuals who obtained undergraduate degrees in food science from Cornell University and pursued sucessful careers in food safety include Kendra Nightingale (Assistant Professor at Colorado State University), Francisco Diez-Gonzalez (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota), Haley Oliver (Assistant Professor, Purdue), Celine Nadon (Adjunct Professor, University of Manitoba and Head, PulseNet Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada)
Key units involved in Food safety related research and teaching at Cornell:
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Special food safety related programs and facilities at Cornell inlcude:
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