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Crystal Ji, Catherine Nease, and Zach Shirk graduated from Cornell University's Department of Food Science with concentrations in food safety at the end of the spring 2014 semester. These are were the first graduates from the department's newly implemented food safety track (see below).

Cornell continues to explore and facilitate food safety related internship and externship opportunities for undergraduate students. For example, one Food Science undergraduate student at Cornell will conduct conducted an externship in the 2013/14 winter break at Garelick Farms.

Developing undergraduate interest in food safety includes the recruitment of new students through the Discovery Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) program at Purdue University. From June-Aug 2012 an undergraduate student with no previous food safety experience conducted an independent research project entitled, “Listeria monocytogenes Persistence and Growth in Cantaloupe”. The student summarized her progress in a poster presentation then continued her research during the 2012-13 academic year.

Haley Oliver, Assistant Professor at Purdue University, recently developed undergraduate laboratories implementing PFGE and PCR in 2011.