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Stephen Fleming is the CEO and Co-Founder of Traverse Science.  His company provides insights that allow food companies to innovate in the nutrition space.  He started out at community college, then earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a doctorate in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.  Join us for an enlightening conversation on finding your way in life.

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Caroline Campbell has always been interested in all aspects of food, from culinary to science and nutrition.  As a competitive swimmer, she connected her knowledge of nutrition with her performance.  After earning 3 degrees in food science, she took her knowledge to the dairy industry.  Today she utilizes her experience in dairy science to support delicious and nutritious innovation for a large dairy company in New Zealand. 

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Marjorie’s start at NC State has taken her halfway around the world and back again.  After receiving her undergraduate degree in food science at NC State, she went to New Zealand to get a PhD in Chemistry with a focus on food structure.  Coming back to the US, Marjorie started her career at Impossible Foods as a scientist.  Now, as a Director of Research and Development at Impossible Foods, she is influencing one of the fastest growing markets in the food industry.

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James Chapa is a graduate of NC State’s Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition department.  He is now a scientist at Novozymes, a company that produces enzymes for many industries including the food industry.  His area of expertise deals with the rapidly growing plant-based foods industry.  Welcome to WDFS James!

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Well, it’s a special time of year where Christmas trees and garland are all around.  We thought your season would be enhanced with a little bit of food science!  This episode holds some of our season flavorites (yep, you read that right), what we are looking forward to the most, and our gift list (it might be a little late, but don’t look a gift horse in the mouth!).  We wish everyone a peaceful and jolly holiday and a glorious New Year full of food science!

Holly Jolly Christmas
Howling Cow Dairy - for eggnog and ice cream

The Food Scientist Gift List
Paige's gifts:
The Flavor Bible
Future Foods
Keith's gifts:
Ultra high pressure liquid chromatography with a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer
Eliza's gifts:
Periodic Table Cookie Cutters
Flask water bottle

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Jacques Overdiep is a graduate of NC State’s Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition department.  He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Food Science at NC State and completed a MS degree in Food Science and Technology at Iowa State University.  He now works as a Quality and Process Control Manager at Hormel Foods.  Welcome to WDFS Jacques!

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Today on WDFS we are speaking to Mitchell Langston.  He is a senior in food science at NC State University.  Mitchell has had a variety of work experiences during his time at NCSU.  From a California winery to right in our department with the Entrepreneurial Program, we are excited to hear all about it.  

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We take a minute away from interviews to express gratitude for all kinds of things, including our listeners!  We hope that you and yours enjoy some relaxation and good food on this Turkey Day, a day of thanks giving!

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Jonathan Strum graduated from the NC State Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences 3 years ago.  Since then, he has gone on to broaden his experience in product development, specifically focusing on sensory science with his position at McCormick & Company.  We are excited to hear what you have been up to for the past 3 years and what lies ahead for you Jonathan!

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Our first episode in season 6!  We are excited to come back with a brand new season.  We will be hearing from all stages of the career from first year food science students at NC State all the way up to career food scientist.

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