2013 AOCS Honored Students

Chodchanok Attaphong is a doctoral student in the Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at The University of Oklahoma, USA. She is recognized for her research in formulations and characteristics of reverse micelle microemulsion-based biofuel from edible and non-edible vegetable oil.

Leann Barden is a doctoral student in the Food Science department of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA. She is recognized for her research in understanding and reducing lipid oxidation in low-moisture foods.

Alex P. Kitson is a doctoral student the Kinesiology department at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is recognized for his research in the role of sex and gonadal hormones in docosahexaenoic acid biosynthesis.

Henna Lu Fung Sieng is a doctoral student in Industrial Food Research at the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. She is recognized for her research in the application of marine phospholipids for production of healthy foods.

Worawan Panpipat is a doctoral student in the Engineering department at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is recognized for her research in synthesis of broad spectrum of sterol derivatives and physical characterization of their multiple length scale micelling behavior.

Madhuram Ravichandran is a doctoral student the Food Science department at the University of Arkansas, USA. She is recognized for her research in preparation, purification and characterization of gastro-intestinal tract resistant peptides from soybean exhibiting a neuro-protective role against amyloid beta (1-42) peptide induced cell death.

Chenxing (Angela) Sun is a doctoral student in the department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is recognized for her research of ozonlysis reactions for lipid transformation and lipids analysis by mass spectrometry.

Fang Tian is a doctoral student in the department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA. She is recognized for her research in the development and demonstration of non-migratory metal-chelating active packaging films to control lipid oxidation in packaged foods.

Tu Tran is a doctoral student in the Chemistry and Biology department at Ryerson University, Canada. He is recognized for his research in novel crystal structures: crystallization of triglycerides in a confined gap.