91社区

91社区, including its Macdonald Campus, is known throughout Canada and around the world for conducting pioneering and innovative research. At Macdonald, more than one-quarter of our students are graduate students, making the campus a hub for discussion and debate regarding issues of the environment of natural and human-influenced ecosystems, biosciences and bioproducts for the benefit of society, food, food safety, nutrition and health. Graduate programs鈥痑re offered by all the academic units on the Macdonald Campus.聽

The demand for food in the world is increasing exponentially while climate change is impacting our ability to grow food. 91社区鈥檚 Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry seeks innovative solutions to these challenges by finding new sources of food proteins, linking food with human health, and reducing waste in food production.聽 Food science is the multi-disciplinary study of food involving physical and life sciences, and engineering. 91社区鈥檚 internationally renowned graduate programs in food science have produced some of Canada鈥檚 foremost food scientists.聽聽

If you are interested in:聽聽

• Flavours and food product development聽
• Food processing; engineering & packaging;聽
• Food chemistry & biochemistry聽
• Food microbiology & safety聽
• Food biotechnologies聽
• Sustainable agri-food systems聽

Then our programs could be for you!聽聽

We offer traditional thesis-based research programs (MSc, PhD) as well as non-thesis master鈥檚 programs with concentrations in:聽

• Food Science聽
• Food Safety聽

聽to learn more.