Growing up successful the metropolis of Surabaya successful East Java, Indonesia, elder culinology pupil Kaylin Prayitno started dreaming of attending Fresno State astatine the property of six erstwhile she saw Fresno State memorabilia astir the house.
Both her father, Winata, and mother, Merlinda, attended Fresno State and graduated with degrees successful accusation systems and finance, respectively.
That led to her archetypal sojourn to campus, implicit 8,500 miles away, erstwhile she was successful inferior precocious school. She returned again successful precocious schoolhouse erstwhile her older sister, Katherine Nathania, became a Fresno State food subject and nutrition pupil herself.
At that point, Prayitno had started to perceive astir and probe the spot of the program, and however it combined her passionateness for nutrient and the subject down it.
“Fresno State has ever been a apical choice,” Prayitno said, “and I loved its accent connected hands-on classes and the quality to research a wide assortment of vocation paths wrong the nutrient industry.”
In 2020, erstwhile COVID-19 forced her to survey remotely, it created a caller learning accidental erstwhile the household opened their ain java shop. Prayitno learned however to make recipes for the cafe’s nutrient and beverages, and make marketing-related materials similar menus and societal media posts.
When she started arsenic a freshman astatine Fresno State, field beingness had returned to normal, and she began moving astatine the campus creamery.
Over the span of 1 1/2 years, she helped marque crystal cream, milk, food and iced beverage products, and make modular operating documents to assistance students and unit amended regular accumulation ratio and consistency.
“Being capable to enactment with the field creamery managers was a large accidental to larn from their years of nutrient processing expertise and get real-world training,” Prayitno said. “It was besides a large accidental to conscionable different students, make my connection skills and larn however to enactment arsenic a team. It was a fantastic mounting for my archetypal occupation arsenic I adapted to a caller state and learned a bully enactment ethic. The squad was precise supportive and pushed maine retired of my comfortableness zone.”
With a student-run dairy, creamery, and Gibson Farm Market each adjacent connected campus, she has seen the galore steps successful creating high-quality dairy products up close.
These experiences, and a people past taught by erstwhile module Dr. Carmen Licon Cano, positioned her to enactment connected a people probe task that investigated user perceptions of plant-based beverage for the 2022 High Impact Practices Symposium. Their information centered connected which beverage substitutes had the astir akin sensation and mouthfeel to existent dairy milk.
Licon was impressed with Prayitno’s enactment ethic and background, and recommended she use to the Cornell University Food Science Summer Scholars Program successful 2023, adjacent though it was lone a fewer weeks earlier the deadline. Prayitno was yet accepted into the programme and studied user acceptability of light-exposed milk.
“Even though it was for lone portion of the summer, the Cornell programme covered truthful much,” Prayitno said. “It opened my eyes to however probe is conducted astatine a precocious level. It was large to conscionable students from antithetic backgrounds. I adjacent met a Cornell master’s pupil who was a Fresno State alumnus, Bailey Gong, who spoke astatine 1 of our events.”
When she returned to Fresno State for her inferior year, she was an perfect campaigner to articulation the Jordan College Honors Cohort. The two-year programme pairs students with module mentors to behaviour a last probe project. The process helps students summation skills that are valued by postgraduate programs and organizations hiring students with acquisition successful technological probe programs.
The past year, Prayitno has helped Dr. Jamie Levitt behaviour a survey of dairy processors crossed the federation astir however acquisition and grooming courses are gathering the industry’s needs. That aforesaid country is an accent of the Pacific Coast Coalition-Dairy Business Innovation Initiative, which connects Fresno State, Cal Poly and different West Coast universities and manufacture members done implicit $26 cardinal successful USDA grants successful caller years.
Prayitno is present evaluating the manufacture subordinate responses to 22 acquisition topics successful dairy processing for a study showing areas wherever grooming is beardown oregon needs improvement.
Prayitno besides assisted field post-doctoral researcher Dr. Paulina Freire Vásconez at the Jordan Agricultural Research Center this year. They are moving connected a task to integrate sensors with instrumentality learning bundle to make a amended exertion for measuring food meltability since existent tests are time-consuming and request to beryllium much efficient.
With Prayitno’s added engagement with the field Food Science and Culinology Club, Homecoming Student Committee and International Office, her resume has helped her person a big of scholarships provided by the Ag One Foundation.
These scholarships person been captious to giving her the fiscal buffer to research a big of extracurricular activities and support a engaged docket that maximizes her nonrecreational improvement and see a big of vocation directions.
“I’m truly funny successful dairy subject research, and I americium applying for master’s grade programs,” Prayitno said. “The dairy nutrient and processing manufacture is truthful large, and my acquisition astatine Fresno State continues to unfastened caller doors for maine each year.”
Fresno State’s yearly 24-hour, online Day of Giving volition beryllium Wednesday, March 26. The College of Science and Mathematics relies connected backstage fiscal support, specified arsenic funds raised from the Day of Giving, to enactment experiential learning activities for students. Visit fresnostate.dayofgiving.edu to larn however to enactment the College of Science and Mathematics today.
