Sara Jarma Arroyo, a food science doctoral student in U of A's Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, has been awarded a scholarship by the Institute of Food Technologists.

Jarma Arroyo has been selected to receive the IFT Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship, which is for $2,000.

Jarma Arroyo works under the direction of Han-Seok Seo, associate professor of food science and a researcher and scientist with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the U of A System Division of Agriculture.

"Sara is an outstanding student who is very passionate about research, teaching and outreach," Seo said. "Sara is also a talented speaker and enthusiastic leader. She devotes fostering solid relationships and collaboration in food science areas. Sara serves as a student representative in the Sensory and Consumer Sciences Division at the Institute of Food Technologists. She has also served as a chair for 24 months at the Sensory Science Journal Club for peers and the public, hosted by the University of Arkansas Sensory Science Center."

Earlier this semester, she won the university-wide Three-Minute Thesis contest with her presentation, "Eating Your Stress Away? Your Emotional State Impacts the Way You Perceive Food." She topped a field of almost 40 other U of A students in the contest organized by the Office of Graduate Student Support. During the Three Minute Thesis, students use one static slide and describe their research thesis in less than three minutes using language for an audience wholly unfamiliar with the topic.

Last spring, she won the college's Gamma Sigma Delta Poster and Oral Competition Ph.D. Oral Poster Division contest.

The Institute of Food Technologists foundation, Feeding Tomorrow, offers a variety of scholarships for freshman, undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a degree in a variety of disciplines within the science of food.

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