Helene Hopfer
heleneh14.bsky.social
Helene Hopfer
@heleneh14.bsky.social
My research pairs well with life - Sensory & Consumer Science, Flavor Chemistry, Food Analysis; 🇦🇹@ Penn State; 🍫🍷🥛🍺☕️🥩👃🏻👅🌾🧪🥼👩🏼‍🔬; Co-Chair Pangborn 2025 “Connecting senses & minds”
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🎉Congratulations #AChemS2025 Career Award Winners! Don't miss their award presentations tonight at 7 PM.
April 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Come join us at Penn State for the our Plant Biology Symposium this June 24-26th. The theme is #Plant Secondary Metabolism (from #genetics to #ethnobotany to medicine!)
Abstracts and registration are open now!
Travel awards available for students/PDs!
Click for more information! vqr.vc/oG1KKYNSh
April 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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🚨PA colleagues:

"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."

"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC

Get out your Other Support and share that info!
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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This youtube video, also from AAU, is great for friends and families that might not understand. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer
YouTube video by Association of American Universities
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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New evidence in the Ultra-Processed Food #UPF debate confirms that the main culprit is #EnergyDensity, and not the amount of processing. This is not news to many, as Energy Density was first implicated in overconsumption over 25 years ago!

www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/02...
Column | Why you should worry less about ultra-processed foods
What makes foods so easy to overeat isn’t the level of processing — it’s the density of calories, a.k.a. energy density.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Organizations representing universities and medical schools have been distressingly quiet about potential funding freeze.

Here is a statement from the American Association of University Professors

www.aaup.org/news/stateme...
Statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson on NIH Freeze
Earlier this week, President Trump’s administration hit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a debilitating freeze to hiring, travel, meetings, and communication. This freeze includes reviewin...
www.aaup.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
#Pangborn2025 registration, abstract and workshop submissions are OPEN! Join us next year in #Philly where we Connect Senses & Minds!

t.co/AMwoHe87Zi
November 16, 2024 at 8:14 PM
#WeAreHiring Join our #FoodScience department and work with our faculty, staff and students as Teaching Laboratory Support Specialist. This student-facing position assists with instruction and short courses and workshops. Learn more: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo... #PennState #Jobs #Hiring
January 16, 2024 at 5:56 PM