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Excellence in Research Award

Selina Wang, associate Cooperative Extension specialist, Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences — She is responsible for bringing chemistry into practice as the standard method of determining olive oil quality. Her work brought new analytical methods to the broad question of what genuinely represents quality in olive oil. Moreover, her work was the research foundation that led the California Department of Food and Agriculture to adopt California olive oil standards and for the Food and Drug Administration to establish a standard of identity for olive oil, forever changing the basis of quality in the global trade of a major commodity. Wang’s work has since expanded to other high-value oils, with the aim to bring the same quality standardization to other sectors of California food and agricultural industries.