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Innovation Center

Works with entrepreneurs and community leaders to transform their ideas into excellent solutions for their customers and citizens. To help their clients transform ideas into valuable solutions, they surround them with all the necessary resources for success: physical resources, financial resources, human resources and organizational resources. They are committed to helping ag and rural entrepreneurs succeed in their attempts to increase the value they present to their customers. They are committed to making small towns and rural communities competitive places to do business in an increasingly global marketplace.

Value-Added Foods Lab

The Value-Added/Product Development Lab includes facilities, equipment and instruments for bench-top food product development, packaging and physical, chemical and microbiological analyses of foods. Part of the facility is specifically designated for accelerated shelf-life testing of food products, and is equipped with controlled atmosphere incubators. The Lab’s staff offers food-related businesses, processors, and entrepreneurs numerous services.

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Sensory Analysis Center

The Sensory Analysis Center can assist clients with project design, testing, analysis and interpretation. The center's wide range of testing services have been performed for flavor, texture, appearance and/or feel of foods, beverages, packaging materials, ingredients, pet foods, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, textiles and paint finishes.

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Extrusion Center

The Extrusion Center features state-of-the-art pilot facilities for extrusion processing research. More than 150 food, feed and industrial products have been researched, manufactured and commercially tested in these plants since 1990. Typical product applications include savory snacks, ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, pet foods and aquatic feeds.

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Thermal Processing Lab

The Thermal Processing Lab's mission is to educate food processors, evaluate larger-scale food formulations and provide first-hand experience with typical processing equipment. The Thermal Processing Lab allows operators to process their products from the raw stage through to the packaged, finished stage, before making large investments.

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Dairy Processing Plant

The Dairy Processing Plant is a 9,600-square-foot facility equipped to make a variety of dairy products. The dairy facility can be used for the manufacture of new products, as well as to study new ingredient functionality.

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Meat Science Support Program

The Meat Science Support Facility provides meat processors and entrepreneurs with an opportunity to use various aspects of a 23,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art meat science complex. The facility provides opportunities for harvest, chilling, fabrication, processing, curing, smoking, packaging display and cooking of meats.

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Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Dr. Vincent Amanor-Boadu
306 Waters Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-3520
vincent@ksu.edu

 

 

 

Fadi Aramouni
Dr. Fadi Aramouni
216D Call Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-1668
faramoun@ksu.edu

 

 


Sherry McGraw
139 Justin Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-0163
mcgraw@ksu.edu



 

 

Eric Maichel
Eric Maichel
1980 Kimball Ave.
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-4802
emaichel@ksu.edu


 

 

Fadi Aramouni
Dr. Fadi Aramouni
216D Call Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-1668
faramoun@ksu.edu

 

 

Karen Schmidt
Dr. Karen Schmidt
138 Call Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-5654
kschmidt@ksu.edu

 

Liz Boyle
Dr. Elizabeth Boyle
251 Weber Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-1247
lboyle@ksu.edu