Castrodale to Receive AOCS International Awards

Chelsey Castrodale
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Chelsey Castrodale

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Chelsey Castrodale, a student in the master's program in food science, will receive two international graduate student awards at the American Oil Chemists Society annual meeting in May in Cincinnati.

She was selected for a 2011 Honored Student Award for her outstanding academic record and for the 2011 Peter and Claire Kalustian Scholarship of the American Oil Chemists' Society, as the outstanding Honor Student.

She has been invited to present a paper at the annual meeting on her research, "Oxidative Stability of Conjugated Linoleic Rich Oil," which is supervised by her adviser, professor Andy Proctor.

These awards are open to international competition between graduate students doing research in fats and oils. Selection is based on classroom performance and research quality.

The food science department is in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Contacts

Howell Medders, coordinator of communications
Division of Agriculture
479-575-5402, hmedders@uark.edu

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