​Recently, associate professor Baojun Xu from FST as a corresponding author published one review paper titled ” An insight into anti-inflammatory effects of fungal beta-glucans” in Trends in Food Science & Technology. This journal is an official journal of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST), and the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST). It is belongs to famous Elsevier Group. It is the only truly international peer-reviewed journal publishing critical reviews and viewpoints of current technology, food science and human nutrition.

Vice President of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) Prof Rao Pingfan delivered a distinguished lecture to UIC students on 25 September. The topic of this lecture was ‘How Important Is Food Science for Human Being?’

Programme Director of Food Science and Technology (FST), Prof Xu Baojun, worked as a corresponding author on a paper that was titled ‘A critical review on analytical techniques to detect adulteration of extra virgin olive oil’, which resulted in being published in the popular journal, ‘Trends in Food Science & Technology’.

The research findings from final year project of a Year 4 Food Science and Technology (FST) student Liu Jiaxu has been published in Food Chemistry, one of top journals (ranks as 6/255) in the field of...

The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture called ’Food for a Voyage to the Mars: Fantasizing Future Food’ by the Vice President of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) Professor Rao Pingfan on 8 May. The guests were Dean of DST Professor Stephen Chung, Food Science and Technology (FST) Professor Xu Baojun, Environmental Science (ENVS) Professor Daniel Ruan, Director of General Education Office (GEO) Professor Mildred Yang, and GEO Professor Sookja Kim Chung.

Using VC technology to present this talk to an audience at UIC, a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University (Ottawa), Prof J David Miller, gave a lecture titled "Mycotoxins: threats to public health and the agricultural economy". This lecture was organised by the Division of Science and Technology (DST) on 26 October.

UIC recognised the excellent achievements of teachers and acknowledged the commitment of 41 long-serving staff members at a ceremony on 23 February. Prof Baojun Xu (Professor of Food Science and Technology, DST) was given the President’s Award for Research.

Dr Karen Poon, Associate Dean of the Division of Science and Technology and two of her students have successfully patented a method of producing vitamin B12 from vegetarian food. The patent was...