Integrating Food Science, Engineering, and Education Network - UTRGV

Integrating Food Science, Engineering, and Education Network - UTRGV An Educational Linkage to Collaboratively Generate Future Hispanic Food Safety/Science Professionals and Leaders

The IFSEEN consortium comprised of the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, the University of Texas at San Antonio, New Mexico State University, and the University of New Mexico is to create an educational linkage to collaboratively enhance the presentation of underrepresented Hispanics in the food/agricultural science area by generating future Hispanic food safety/science professionals and leaders through collaboration among the four major HSIs in Texas and New Mexico. To accomplish the goal, IFSEEN team will outreach to local high schools, develop new course materials, target incoming students, train them as cohorts as they matriculate through their undergraduate education, conduct cross-disciplinary food science research, and partner with USDA agencies and Tier 1 agricultural institutions nationwide. The IFSEEN activities will increase students’ scientific knowledge, strengthen their research skills, establish a food science research environment, prepare them to matriculate into in food/agricultural science graduate schools, facilitate their placement into career of food/agricultural sciences, and increase community awareness of food science research. Collectively, the IFSEEN program will increase the number of Hispanics that pursue careers in the food/agricultural science fields. To accomplish its main goal, IFSEEN employs an integral strategic model with five core components (Fig. 1): (i) Recruitment and retention, (ii) Curricula enrichment, (iii) Experiential learning, (iv) Opportunity, and (v) Communication. All five components are integrated and supported by different activities designed to achieve the five IFSEEN program objectives.

10/08/2016
HESTEC 2016
10/08/2016

HESTEC 2016

Welcome back everyone enjoy your first day of school :-)
08/29/2016

Welcome back everyone enjoy your first day of school :-)

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04/20/2016

The 2016 SACNAS Conference will take place October 13th-15th.
We would like to encourage you to support your students and have them apply to the conference.
The application will open on April 25th and close May 13th.
Priority will be given to students who submit an abstract and are presenting; second priority is to students who have never attended the conference

04/19/2016

Our new website is up and running!!

The goal of the IFSEEN consortium is to create an educational program to address the NIFA areas (i.e. (a) Curricula Design and Materials Development, (e) Student Experiential Learning, and (f) Student Recruitment and Retention) through collaboration among four major HSIs in Texas and New Mexico.

During the meeting, Dr. Mao also served as a project panelist.
02/26/2016

During the meeting, Dr. Mao also served as a project panelist.

Dr. Yuanbing Mao, Program Director of the IFSEEN, Dr. Nancy Flores, one of participating faculty mentor, and Mr. Tyler B...
02/26/2016

Dr. Yuanbing Mao, Program Director of the IFSEEN, Dr. Nancy Flores, one of participating faculty mentor, and Mr. Tyler Balding, our student representative, attended the USDA NIFA HSI PD meeting on Dec 7 – 9, 2015 in DC area.

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