News: Faculty and Staff
Newest Addition to the UGA FST Family
Dr. Kevin Mis Solval and his wife welcomed their third child, Giovana Isabella, on September 19, 2023.
Retirement
After nearly 37 years of running a prolific and dynamic research program in Food Processing Technologies to enhance Food Safety, Dr. Yen-Con Hung plans to retire, effective March 1, 2024. Dr. Hung started his position in UGA-FST on the Griffin campus in late 1985 and has been a faculty member of the department since. His research on Electrolyzed Water (EO Water) was successfully funded by the USDA-NRI (AFRI program now) and helped him gain visibility for his research. He maintained the Peanut Information Network System (PINS), a USAID funded collaborative research program since 2007 to help disseminate information on peanut related publications and training materials. Dr. Hung is an internationally recognized scientist and was instrumental in developing UGA relations in the Food Safety Summit a joint venture between UGA, Auburn University, University of Maryland, and Shanghai Ocean University. As a result of his highly productive research, Dr. Hung was conferred the Koehler-Ayers Professorship in Food Science and Technology in 2020.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hung for a successful career at UGA and wish him the best for the future.
Giovana Isabella Mis Solval
Dr. Yen-Con Hung
Aaron Reynolds
In Memoriam
Aaron Estes Reynolds Jr. was born in Columbia County Georgia to Aaron Estes Reynolds Sr. and Myrtle Powell Reynolds on September 28, 1944. He died on August 26, 2023 in Blairsville Georgia. Dr. Reynolds is survived by two children Jennifer Reynolds Sanders (Alan) and Jason Reynolds (Rhonda). He is preceded in death by his wife Janis Hawes Reynolds and his oldest son Joel. There are six grandchildren: Catherine, Claire, Caleb, and Caroline Sanders, as well as Tanner and Caden Reynolds. He is survived by three sisters Juanita Reynolds Whitaker (Warren), Margaret Reynolds Wiggins (Wayne), and Patricia Reynolds Lines (David) as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Dr. Reynolds graduated from Evans High School in 1962. He then earned a BSA from the University of Georgia in animal science (1962-1966), and an MS from the University of Tennessee in animal husbandry and food science (1966-1968). Dr. Reynolds interrupted his educational pursuits to serve as an Army officer in Viet Nam (1969-1970) and continued to serve in the reserves until 1979. After his military tour he returned to UGA to complete his PhD (1970-1973), and then joined the Food Science faculty at Michigan State University (1973-1979). He then moved back to UGA where spent the balance of his professional career in the Extension Food Science Department (1979-2005) serving the food industry not only in his native state of Georgia, but also around the world. After his retirement, Dr. Reynolds remained active in the food industry as a much sought-after consultant.
Dr. Reynolds graduated from Evans High School in 1962. He then earned a BSA from the University of Georgia in animal science (1962-1966), and an MS from the University of Tennessee in animal husbandry and food science (1966-1968). Dr. Reynolds interrupted his educational pursuits to serve as an Army officer in Viet Nam (1969-1970) and continued to serve in the reserves until 1979. After his military tour he returned to UGA to complete his PhD (1970-1973), and then joined the Food Science faculty at Michigan State University (1973-1979). He then moved back to UGA where spent the balance of his professional career in the Extension Food Science Department (1979-2005) serving the food industry not only in his native state of Georgia, but also around the world. After his retirement, Dr. Reynolds remained active in the food industry as a much sought-after consultant.
Never afraid of getting his hands dirty, Professor Reynolds, an avid hunter, operated a deer processing business where he passed on his butchering skills to his children and others. He also spent decades serving as a Gideon providing copies of God’s Word to others around the world.