Haley Oliver, professor of food science in Purdue University’s College of Agriculture, has been awarded $10 million in funding from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for a five-year extension of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL).
Since the lab’s founding in 2019, Oliver — who also serves as the FSIL director and the university’s interim vice provost for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars — and the FSIL management team at Purdue and Cornell universities have guided more than a dozen food safety research projects in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria and Senegal. Research has focused on strengthening the safety of nutritious, perishable foods including dairy, produce, fish and poultry.