Research and Scholarly Interests:

In Food Science and Technology:

• food quality (including sensory aspects) and food safety
  
• minor constituents of foods (flavonoids and other pigments, antioxidants, essential oils)
  
• fat and lipid components in foods (meats, milk, grains)
  

Graduate Students Supervised or co-supervised:

Ajit Joshi, Development of Apple Snack Products
Norberto Posecion, Development of a Goats' Milk Yogurt
Craig Landsburg, Essential Oils from Nova Scotia Grown Mint

Advisory Role in Graduate Student Research:

• Amanda Greaves
• Ruchira Nandasiri
• Prasanna Gunathilake
• Indu Parmar
• Jingfei Gao
• Charmila Ratanasooriya
• James Dawson
• Gwen Huber
• Letitica MacDonald
• Rena Currie
• Sarah Gatti
• Debbie Musgrave
• Lindsay Hainstock
• Sujit Menon
• Darria Langill
• Dave Wood
• Jeff Gunn
• Amine Brown

• Kim Pennie

My interest in these areas arose as a result of experiences in my own classroom as well as my service on the Curriculum Committee and Instructional Development Committees at NSAC and my previous involvement with student success initiatives via the NSAC's Enrollment Management Council.

• gendered learning
  
• mature students' experiences at post-secondary institutions
  
• facilitating transition between the high school and the post-secondary experience
  
• quality in a student learning experiences
  
• effective and creative use of instructional methods in the university classroom
  
• transitions and adaptations in learning environment
  
• content literacy and communicating across the disciplines
  
• creative instructional methods in the classroom