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Ph.D. in Food Science, University of Illinois, 2004

2005 Diageo Spirit of Supply Award; 2004 UIUC Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Graduate Student of the Year; 2002, 2004 UIUC Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Teaching Assistant of the Year; 2004 College of ACES Louis V. Logeman Graduate Student Teaching Award; 2004 NACTA Graduate Student Teaching Award

Dr. Bohn graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign with a Bachelor of Science degree in food science in May, 1998. Upon the completion of her degree, Dr. Bohn became an Operations Manager at the Beloit, Wisconsin Frito-Lay site. In August of 2000, she returned to the University to begin her graduate work. The main focus of her doctoral research was the development, validation, and uncertainty analysis of a novel method that utilized dynamic vapor sorption coupled with fast-gas chromatography as a means to study how temperature and humidification affect volatile release from amorphous carbohydrate systems. Her research also focused on coupling dynamic vapor sorption with differential scanning calorimetry to study how humidification affects the glass transition temperature of, and subsequent volatile release from, amorphous carbohydrate volatile entrapping systems. After she earned her Ph. D. in 2004, Dr. Bohn returned to the food industry, this time in a research and development role, as a Sr. Scientist for Diageo Global Supply. In 2006, Dr. Bohn returned to the University of Illinois once again as an instructor for the Introduction to Food Science and Human Nutrition course and as the coordinator of the department’s off-campus learning efforts. Dr. Bohn is also the FSHN vocational director for the UIUC ACES Alumni Association.

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