Member Spotlight – Adam Yee with WeWork

Hi, I’m Adam Yee, I’m the Food Labs Manager at the new WeWork in Austin Texas. Before I moved to Austin, I was a food scientist, do the podcast My Food Job Rocks, and built a company called Better Meat Co. Now I take my network and experiences to help entrepreneurs in...

Happy New Year! Alamo IFT 2020 Events

Happy New Year! As a member of IFT Alamo Section I would like to start this year by thank you for being an IFT member! I am hoping you had a very productive 2019 and that you are ready for more! This year, our section is preparing great things to increase the...

Remembering Dr. O.P. Synder

On March 1st, we lost a strong advocate for retail food safety and science-based validation. Dr. O.P. Synder (Pete) died after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. While some of you may have come across him at IFT, IAFP or CFP meetings/conferences and knew of...

2019 IFT Leadership Opportunities for Alamo Section

Nomindate Candidate It’s that time of year where we fill any vacant spots in our Alamo IFT Leadership Team and get ready for the 2019/2020 Elections. Nominations are deadline has been extended to January 22 so respond quickly if interested. If you are looking to step...

2017 Alamo IFT Golf Outing

We would like to first thank all of our 26+ sponsors for stepping up and helping fund the scholarships. We are thankful that Ajinomoto Windsor was our Platinum Sponsor and also sponsored a team of Purple Heart Veterans. Without the sponsors we would not be able to...

2017-2018 Election Results

A big congratulations to Alamo IFT members, Vickie Kloeris and Michele Perchonok for their success in the National IFT Election! Michele Perchonok will be IFT President-Elect Vickie Kloeris will be on the IFT Board of Directors We are proud of you both and wish you...

Special Announcement – Please Vote!

by: Michele Perchonok, Ph.D., Alamo IFT Member at Large As most of you know, the IFT Leadership election is open and will continue until March 2, 2017.  In the election, IFT members, in addition to voting for President-elect, Board of Directors and Nominations and...

IFT Leadership Opportunities for Alamo Section

It’s that time of year where we fill any vacant spots in our Alamo IFT Leadership Team and get ready for the 2017/2018 Elections. Nominations are due January 17th so respond quickly if interested. If you are looking to step up and get more involved with IFT this is...

2016 Golf Outing Wrap up

Thank you to all the volunteers and sponsors for helping out at the golf outing!  We could not have done it without you. With your help we were able to raise over $12,000 for Scholarships next year !   We hope all of you had a great time and will come back next year....

In Memory of Louis Dean “Dr. Pepper” Rasplicka

Article: Who's a Pepper 8/22/2008 – The Austin Chronicle   September 22, 1930 – September 1, 2016 Lou was instrumental in promoting Alamo IFT in the early days with Pace and Pepper Products. At Alamo IFT we acknowledge his contributions. Lou...

Bruce Ferree’s Run for Scholarships Challenge

You may not know it but Bruce has been the top collector of donations for the IFT Student Association Fun Run every year at the AMFE.  And now he is running 250K in Chile, South America.  All donations will go to the IFT Student Association for student scholarships. ...

2015 Alamo IFT Golf Outing Report

Written by: Scott McCormick We would like to first thank all of our sponsors for stepping up and helping fund the scholarships.  We had 7 new sponsors this year.  Most of them came out to the event.  Without the sponsors we would not be able to give away nine...

A Message from Steve Talcott

TAMU-Alamo-Longhorn Section IFT Dr. Boon Chew and I wanted to thank everyone that attended last Friday, and hope you had a great day in Aggieland. Please follow up with us as you can, and see how you and your company can interact more with our faculty and students. We...