Family and Consumer Sciences Contributing Faculty
♦ Insook Ahn | Assistant professor
Expertise:
Apparel Design, Product Development, Pattern making
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Value-added Agribusiness & Ag SupplyChain Entrepreneurship
♦ Kelley Coffeen | Assistant College Professor
Expertise:
Recipe Development and Food Writing, Chile Recipe Development, Mexican/Southern Border Culinary Recipe Development
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
♦ Efren Delgado | Assistant Professor
Expertise:
Food Chemistry, functional foods and food processing
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Food processing
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- Hemp Industrialization
- Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
- Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
♦ Sergio Martinez-Monteagudo | Assistant Professor
Expertise:
Value-added, extraction of bioactive compounds, chemical modifications, technology development
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Valorization of Agricultural byproduct streams
- Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
- Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
♦ Merranda Romero Marin | Associate Professor
Expertise:
Evidence-base treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Resilience, Psychological Aspects of Poverty, Multicultural Training when working with Diverse Populations, Childhood Obesity
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Childhood Obesity
- Food Security
- Psychosocial Aspects of Food
♦ Luis Sabillon Galeas | Assistant Professor of Microbial Food Safety
Expertise:
Food Safety Microbiology, Molds and Mycotoxins , Post-harvest storage and processing of cereal grains and Processing of wheat-based products
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:
- Food Bioprocessing
- Adapting to Climate Variability
- Food Safety
- Food Security
- Hemp Industrialization
- Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
- Sustainable Water Systems