Student Travel Scholarship

Plaque and travel funds to attend the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Food Protection. IAFP recognizes that students from around the world are the future leaders in the field of food safety. Since 2004, the IAFP Foundation has been dedicated to enhancing the career potential of exceptional students through the annual IAFP Student Travel Scholarship Program.

The application deadline for the IAFP Student Travel Scholarship was Tuesday, January 23, 2024.

To create the application form, click on the "Make a Nomination" button and complete the required information. Once you click on Save, your completed application form will be emailed to the address you provided.

  • Sponsored by: IAFP Foundation
  • 2023 Recipient(s): Marianna Arvaniti, Cyril Ayuk Etaka, Akshaya Balaji, Megan Dixon, Aaron Dudley, Gurwinder Kaur, Clara Lima, Abdullahi Muhammad, Keorimy Ouk, Alexis Omar, Chenhao Qian, Aishwarya Rao, Katerina Roth, Yesutor Soku, Pauline Spagnoli, Sloane Stoufer, Pranaya Udash, Stevie Ward, Surabhi Wason, Pianpian Yan*, Elizabeth Yanez Obregon (*Sponsored by the Korea Association for Food Protection)

Submit a Nomination

Applications for the IAFP Student Travel Scholarship must be submitted by email as one PDF (four pages maximum for graduate students; three pages maximum for undergraduate students) to studenttravel@foodprotection.org. Applications sent to any other email address or mailed to the IAFP office will not be accepted. The application deadline for the Student Travel Scholarship is Tuesday, January 23, 2024.

Past Awardees

  • 2022 Jyoti Aryal, Patrice Bonny, Carmen Cano, Roca Grace Dewi, Jennifer Dorick, Mairui Gao, Mrinalini Ghoshal, Madison Goforth, Olivia Haley, Rosa Heydenreich, Minji Hur Mwarome, Jumbale Amalia Komarudin, Tengfei Li, Tlaleo Marole, David Mugabo, Jennifer Mydosh, Jasmine Smalls, Anand Soorneedi, Saki Tanaka, Kaidi Wang, Zirui Ray Xiong, Lang Yao
  • 2021 Jessica Brown, Shiyu Cai, Bienvenido Cortes, Devin Daeschel, Adwoa Dankwa, Minh Duong, Marina Girbal, Sarah L. Jones, Karuna Kharel, Minji Kim, Brenda Moraa Kimang'a, Xingchen Liu, Ajay Mittal, Owade Joshua Ombaka, Solomon Rajkumar Racharla, Keshnee Reega, Anna Townsend, Joseph Wambui, Christina Wormald, Jiyoon Yi
  • 2020 Cameron Bardsley, Brianna Britton, Alessia Delbrück, Erika Estrada, Savana Everhart, Emily Forauer, Ahmed Gomaa, Marti Hua, Xingyi Jiang, Xinyu Liao, Claire Marik, Francis Muchaamba, Kizito Nishimwe, Duke Gekonge Omayio, Katie Overbey, Angélica Godínez Oviedo, Dacil Rivera, Thiago Sugizaki dos Santos, Mathilde Trudel-Ferland, Ingrid Zamora
  • 2019 Hiroki Abe, Jennifer Acuff, Justin Anast, Katrien Begyn, Melanie Firestone, Catherine Gensler, Carly Gomez, Gayathri Gunathilaka, John Hodges, Rochelle Keet, Muhammad Nadeem Khan, Sakshi Lamba, Ruiling Lv, Sarah Murphy, Oladipupo Olatunde, Nurudeen Olalekan Oloso, Ruth Oni, Elvina Parlindungan, Surabhi Rani, Lester Schonberger, Mary Yavelak
  • 2018 Abimbola E. Allison, Xiaoqiong Cao, Vijay Singh Chhetri, Anna Colavecchio, Daniel F. M. do Monte, Angela Marie C. Ferelli, Mohammad Ruzlan Habib, Anna Sophia Harrand, Shoukui He, Kento Koyama, Luyao Ma, Robyn C. Miranda, Zahra H. Mohammad, Thabang Nora Msimango, Flavia Negrete, Loandi Richter, Varalakshmi S, Joyjit Saha, Carla Schwan, Katarina Simunovic
  • 2017 Makala Bach, Stephanie Barnes, Sarah Beno, Sarah Cope, Dorothy Dupree, Hillary Kelbick, Giannis Koukkidis, Shuxiang Liu, Itumeleng Matle, Rianna Murray, Eugene Niyonzima, Rodney Owusu-Darko, Hao Pang, Laura Patterson, Kristen Saniga, Nicholas Sevart, Aswathi Soni, Constanza Vergara, Sophie Wu, Xingning Xiao
  • 2016 Sarah Allard, Takiyah Ball, Kaitlyn Casulli, Justin Falardeau, Kirtiraj Gaikwad, Abigail Horn, Isaac Kabazzi, Wan Mei Leong, Zach Marsh, Kira Newman, Thabile Nkambule, Ifeoluwa Olotu, Katie Satchwell, Daniel Weller, Lily Yang, Claire Zoellner
  • 2015 Nicole Arnold, Jamuna Bai Aswathanarayan, Olayemi Kayode Bolatito, Mary Theresa Callahan, Ashley Chaifetz, Byron Chaves, Shannon Coleman, Sydney Corkran, Shani Craighead, Phillip Gurman, Olivier Kamana, Matthew Moore, Desmond Mugadza, Victor Ntuli, Alia Osman, Isaac Rwomushana Rukundo, Daniel Unruh, Pratheeba Yogendrarajah, Dewi Yunita
  • 2014 Kazeem Akinwumi, Kris Alvarez Juan, Vinayak Ghate, Susan Hammons, Van Ho Maria, Chelsea Kaminski, Daniele Maffei Stephanie Nadya, Bryan Oliveros, David Sanchez Calderon, Patrick Spanninger, Sarisa Suriyarak, Elena Tanabe, Silin Tang, Jessie Usaga, Qing Wang
  • 2013 Gbenga Adewumi, Apurba Chakraborty, Clarisse Compaore, Amanda King, Edyta Margas, Ismail Odetokun, Lorraine Rodriguez-Rivera, Dong Joo Seo, Elizabeth Noelia Williams, Yishan Yang
  • 2012 Frederick Adzitey, Sharon Bagaaya, Eva Danira Borjas Orellana, Wei Chen, Chawalit Kocharunchitt, Min Hwa Lee, Laura Strawn, Fabricio Luiz Tulini, Qiongqiong Yan
  • 2011 Ashley Bramlett, Jessica Lee Corron, Marcus Vinicius Coutinho Cossi, Sarah Finn, Patricia Hingston, Kevin Ebere Njoku, Vinicius Buccelli Ribeiro, Courage Kosi Setsoafia Saba, Jan Mei Soon
  • 2010 Abel Atukwase, Mary Pia Cuervo, Vania Borges Ferreira, Clyde Simmons Manuel, Anh Linh Nguyen, Csaba Nemeth, Iryna Sybirtseva, Duygu Tosun
  • 2009 Dominic K. Bagenda, Jeremy William Chenu, Gashaw Mersha Tessema, Hyo-Min Nang, Aaron R. Uesugi, Stelios Viazis
  • 2008 Ji-Yeon Hyeon, Hudaa Neetoo, Rolf Erik Nilsson, Christopher Nnadozie Njoku
  • 2007 Rebecca Goulter, Hyun-Ho Jin, Ivan Nastasijevic, Haley F. Oliver, and Rebecca C. Robbins
  • 2006 Yvonne C. Chan, Eb Chiarini, Ashley S. Pedigo, Luciano Chi Serrano
  • 2005 Stephen F. Grove, Brooke M. Whitney