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Food Innovation Center

Nebraska degrees propel Porter to sweet success as candy entrepreneur

October 31, 2025

Science & Technology

Carmen Perez-Donado pours egg into a mixture as David Fabian Gomez Quintero stirs during the Battle of the Food Scientists Feb. 15 at the Food Innovation Center.

Team registration open for Battle of the Food Scientists

February 14, 2024

The Food Innovation Center on Innovation Campus

Center celebrates 40 years of development in all things food

June 13, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Carmen Perez-Donado pours egg into a mixture as David Fabian Gomez Quintero stirs during the Battle of the Food Scientists Feb. 15 at the Food Innovation Center.

Food scientists get creative in buggy culinary clash

February 16, 2023

Two students cringe while trying soy sauce in the fermented foods course

Huskers get hands on with science of funky fermentations

January 20, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nebraska Innovation Campus to celebrate decade of growth

November 7, 2022

High school student Holly Podliska (center) and Husker undergraduates Daniel Ngu (left) and Conner Pederson (right) gather maize root microbiome samples in 2017. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s new Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates program will give students 10-week summer research experiences and scientific communication and leadership training.

Grant will fund ‘Crop-to-Food Innovation’ undergraduate training program

February 18, 2022

Ripe cherries are shown on a coffea arabica tree in Ethiopia

Researchers from Nebraska, Ethiopia rethinking the coffee 'cherry'

October 21, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Jan Tenbensel, chairman of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, directs Russell Parde as nonflammable ingredients are mixed inside the Food Innovation Center. The ingredients are mixed with the ethanol under stringent safety rules. Hand sanitizer is being made at Nebraska Innovation Campus through a collaboration between the Food Innovation Center and the Nebraska Ethanol Board.

Hand sanitizer for health care produced at Nebraska Innovation Campus

April 7, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Allison Butterfield, a graduate research assistant in horticulture, feeds a hop bine into a harvester during the Aug. 24 event. Butterfield is studying how corn gluten meal can be used to benefit the growth of vegetables. She also has applied the study to hop bines.

Harvest demo draws hop hopefuls

August 27, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Rochester Midland joins Alliance for Advanced Sanitation

April 4, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

A Battle of the Food Scientists team present their pasta dish to judges during the Feb. 28 event. Pictured are team members (from left) Tushar Verma, Xinyao Wei, Long Chen and Jared Kleine.

Culinary contest challenges food scientists' prowess

March 1, 2018