News & Lab Activities
2022 students’ achievements
- 2022, Evelyn Lin (MS), 1st place, Graduate Student Competition: ADSA Dairy Foods Oral, 2022 American Dairy Science Association® Annual Meeting.
- 2022, Yijing Shao (PhD), 2nd place, Division Graduate Student Competition, Dairy Foods Division, 2022 IFT FIRST Annual Event & Expo.
- 2022, Evelyn Lin (MS), 2nd place, Division Graduate Student Competition, Food Chemistry Division, 2022 IFT FIRST Annual Event & Expo
- 2022, Usman Amin (PhD), Finalist, Graduate Student Competition: ADSA Dairy Foods Oral, 2022 American Dairy Science Association® Annual Meeting.
- 2022, Yijing Shao (PhD), Finalist, Graduate Student Competition: ADSA Dairy Foods Oral, 2022 American Dairy Science Association® Annual Meeting.
Picture: Evelyn Lin won the 1st place in Graduate Student Competition at 2022 American Dairy Science Association® Annual Meeting (ADSA Dairy Foods Oral)
2022 Nov.
- Zheng lab annual team activity: BBQ by the Jordan Lake, Raleigh, NC
- Dr. Zheng presented a guest lecture: “Proteins & Protein Functionality” upon invitation from Laboratory of Food Oral Processing at Zhejiang Gongshang University (Dr. Jiangshe Chen and Dr. Xinmiao Wang)
2022 Sept.
Dr. Zheng presented the lab research efforts on whey proteins as an invited speaker at 2022 International Whey Conference (IWC) in Chicago, Il
2022 August
Zheng lab organized “Workshop: Basics of Dairy Foods” for dairy business stakeholders from North Carolina and Tennessee based on sponsorship from North Carolina Dairy Producers Association
2022 July
Summer interns presented posters at NC State
Commissioning of the Alpha Laval Tangential Flow (Membrane) Filtration system at Zheng lab
2022 June
Zheng lab attended
- ADSA 2022 annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri
- Build Dairy Annual meeting in Provo, Utah
May 2nd 2022
The lab hosted 18th Annual Applied Rheology Seminar at NC State, offered by Anton Paar
April 6th 2022
Dr. Zheng was invited to be one of the three judges at Protein and Co-Products Graduate Student Oral Competition for 2022 AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo
https://annualmeeting.aocs.org/
2021 Nov.
Zheng Lab Hiking at William B. Umstead State Park, Raleigh, NC
July 30th 2021
February -5-2021
Dr. Zheng presented a guest lecture on the topic of Food Structure Design to students at University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
February-2-2021
Dr. Avinash Patel from University of Maine joined Zheng Lab as postdoc researcher.
Welcome him!
January-22-2021
Dr. Zheng presented a guest lecture on the topic of Food Rheology to students at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
May 2020
Dr. Zheng’s research was highlighted in Journal of Dairy Science as one of the “high impact Early Career Researchers” (see: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-dairy-science/news/read-interviews-with-high-impact-early-career-researchers)
June 2019
Dr. Zheng was elected as “Member-at-Large” for Dairy Foods Division Council, American Dairy Science Association (see: https://www.adsa.org/Portals/0/SiteContent/Docs/About/2019_-_2020_ADSA_Committees.pdf?v20200122-2)