2016 financial specialists manage a number of competitive research grants at the discretion of appropriate, individual FAPC faculty members. Services Accounts Service account funds, accumulated in respective faculty and staff member accounts, are managed at FAPC. These are usually for small industry project grants or work projects for specific applied industry research projects. Gifts, Donations and Endowments Cash and non-cash donations are received at FAPC to include equipment, packaging and ingredients. Cash donations provide enhancement to the operating budget as well as establish endowments such as the Charles Browning Endowed Professorship, the Marge and Virgil Jurgensmeyer Endowed Professorship and the latest Food Safety Option Endowment. The OSU Foundation supports all activities.
FAPC’s Industry Advisory Committee donated $1 million in 2014 to create a food safety program at OSU to educate and prepare students for food safety careers and provide companies with food safety needs. The initiative resulted in hiring a food safety specialist and assistant professor in the OSU Department of Animal Science and establishing an undergraduate food safety option. In 2016, Lopez Foods, provided a $100,000 gift to support OSU’s food safety program.
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