Food Safety teaching, outreach, and research programs at Cornell can be found in multiple departments, colleges, and fields. Key faculty at Cornell with active food saftey research programs inlcude:
Carl Batt, Professor, Department of Food Science
Kathryn Boor, Professor, Department of Food Science
Robert Gravani, Professor, Department of Food Science
Carmen Moraru, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science
Alicia Orta-Ramirez, Lecturer, Deaprtment of Food Science
Martin Wiedmann, Professor, Department of Food Science
Randy Worobo, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science
Craig Altier, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Patrick McDonough, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Yrjo Groehn, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Lorin Warnick, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Undergraduate Food Safety Studies at Cornell: Undergraduates interested in training in food safety typically apply to and enroll in the undergraduate major in Food Science at Cornell. While there is no desifnated "Food Safety" major at Cornell, this program provides for outstanding food safety training with a number of food safety, epidemiology and microbiology classes that provide eduction related to to food safety available to students. in addition, undergrduates have outstanding opportunities available to perform food safety research at Cornell during the semester and during the summer. Noteworthy individuals who obtained undergraduate degrees in food science from Cornell University and pursued sucessful careers in food safety include Proefessor Don Schaffner (Rutgers), Professor Kathryn Boor (Cornell University, currently Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell)
Graduate Studies in Food Safety at Cornell: Graduate studenst intersted in traiuning in food safety typically apply to and enroll in MS or PhD programs in the Graduate Field of Food Science and Technology; some grduate stduenst also choose to major in teh Grduates Fields of "Comparative Biomedicals Sciences" (this major is particuarly appropriate for students interested in pre-harvest food saftey of aniaml-based foods).
Noteworthy individuals who obtained undergraduate degrees in food science from Cornell University and pursued sucessful careers in food safety include