Sumanjot Kaur and Arda Tuhanioglu, both U of A graduate students in food science, earned recognition at the American Oil Chemists' Society Annual Meeting and Expo at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, in April.

Kaur earned the AOCS Honored Student Award while Tuhanioglu was recognized with the Industrial Oil Products Division Student Excellence Award.

Kaur's presentation was "Transforming Soy Proteins into Nanoporous Aerogels Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Drying." Kaur also advanced to the finals of the Protein and Co-Products Division Poster Competition.

Tuhanioglu's presentation was "Selective Wax Fractionation from a Bioethanol Side-Stream via Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: A Machine Learning-Advised Functional Data Analysis Approach."

Tuhanioglu finished second in the Industrial Oil Products Division Poster Competition.

Tuhanioglu and Kaur are both Ph.D. students in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Sorour Barekat, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Food Science, also presented her research "Innovating Protein-Based Bioinks with Sorghum Gel for 3D Food Printing."

All three are advised by Ali Ubeyitogullari, assistant professor of food engineering.

Ubeyitogullari directs the Food Engineering for Health Lab (foodeng4health.uark.edu) at the U of A and has a joint appointment in the departments of Food Science and Biological and Agricultural Engineering.

Ubeyitogullari delivered a talk titled "Enhancing in Vitro Digestibility of Plant Proteins Using a Novel Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Drying Approach."

He is a faculty member, and a researcher and scientist with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the U of A System Division of Agriculture.

AOCS advances the science and technology of oils, fats, proteins, surfactants and related materials, enriching the lives of people everywhere.

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