Biological Engineering
Likeable legumes
Gabanzos, lentils, peas, and beans — some of the foods you couldn't stand as a kid — have now become healthy, great-tasting snacks, thanks to professor and researcher Juming Tang. He and another researcher at WSU made the snacks from ground-up legumes, aiming to help people get their daily recommended amount of vegetables.
Learn science by doing science
As a student in Professor Tang's class, you can be a part of his research, working in the laboratory side-by-side with him to create new healthy foods, new methods of food preservation, and new ways to feed the world.
For instance, professor Tang and a team of researchers — including WSU students, professors, and collaborators from other universities — recently won a top award on a revolutionary new food preservation system that could feed astronauts on long-term space missions, or soldiers in the field. It could also help transport and store food to areas of the world where people are unable to produce enough food to feed themselves.
Now that their new system has preliminary USDA approval, Professor Tang's research team is in high gear, working on ways to move it from prototype to cost-effective manufacturing.
This is important, global research, and you can be part of it while you're here at WSU.
