Location:

Manhattan, United States

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Doctorate

Specialty:

Agricultural Science & Agronomy

Program Overview

Program Description:

Grain science faculty collaborate with the scientists at the USDA Grain Marketing Research Laboratories and the American Institute of Baking and there are graduate programs that are collaborative with those laboratories. Modern teaching and research facilities include a pilot flour mill, feed mill, bakery, extrusion laboratory, and grain storage and handling facility. In addition, more than 10 cereal chemistry laboratories are equipped with ultracentrifuges, freeze-dryers, gas chromatographs, liquid chromatographs, balances, rapid viscosity analyzer, differential scanning calorimeter, thermo-mechanical analyzer, classical rheometer (Instron), dynamic rheometers, gel electrophoresis apparatus, a full array of glassware, rapid analyzers for Kjeldahl nitrogen, fiber, and glucose, as well as recording mixers and starch viscometers.

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