Note that all abstract submissions must be made using the online submission form. Workshop proposals should be submitted by email.

Universities having entries among the top 10 include Cornell University, Drexel University, and University of Minnesota.

The membership was privileged to have had a slate of candidates all of whom were highly qualified for office.  It made for a difficult choice.  We wish to thank all candidates for generously agreeing to run and for their willingness to help lead the society.

The terms for the newly elected members of the Executive Committee terms start July 1.  The new officers are:

Chair-Elect: Natalie Stoer
Secretary: Annette Hottenstein
Treasurer: Collette Perozzi
Chair, Strategic Planning and Nominations: Jason Newlon
Members-at-Large: Sharon McEvoy, Jean McEwan, Alexa Williams

Please join us in welcoming the new committee members,
The Nominating Committee

After you successfully complete your vote, you should receive a confirmation email. Please note, though, that the email may not arrive immediately.

Given below is the current slate of candidates for the 2011 society election.  There are two candidates for each position.  Candidate bios are available online.

Additional nominations can be made by petition to the Nominating Committee no later than May 6.  The petition must contain:

1. The name, short bio, and proposed office of the nominee;
2. A statement that the nominee will accept the nomination and office if elected;
3. The names and e-mail addresses of 6 (six) active SSP members who are nominating the person.

Candidate slate (shorts bios are available online):

• Chair-Elect: Frank Rapacki and Natalie Stoer
• Secretary: Donya Germain and Annette Hottenstein
• Treasurer: Tara Campbell and Collette Perozzi
• Chair, Strategic Planning and Nominations Committee: Jason Newlon and Lori Walker
• Officers-at-Large (Elect 3):
  • Judy Briggs
  • Isabelle Lesschaeve
  • Amy Mahony
  • Jean McEwan
  • Sharon McEvoy
  • Alexa Williams

Please note that a separate email will be sent when the final ballot is available for online (electronic) voting.

If you are a student that would like to be a voice and advocate for other students in the SSP organization, then this opportunity might be for you. The biggest qualifications for student reps are the ability to commit time to the position and organizational abilities. During monthly executive committee meetings you will have the opportunity to advise various subcommittees of the impact on students of their decisions. Student reps should be self-directed and have the initiative to suggest and carry out programs during on and off conference years that benefit students. The monthly time commitment is relatively low around 3 or 4 hours per month. Currently the position will be a 1 year position with a 1 year extension option. Please fill out this online application prior to April 1, 2011.

Thanks to Alisa Doan and Michael Nestrud, the outgoing student reps, for their outstanding work as our student representatives!

Rules:

• Must be a current student pursuing a degree at a University nywhere in the World. (You do not have to be a student member of the Society of Sensory Professionals to participate.)
• Submissions should be in English and at most 600 words
• Entries should follow the standard formatting of Wiki articles http://www.sensorysociety.org/ssp/wiki/article_style/
• Subject matter for the article should be related to sensory or consumer science and the subject of the article cannot already be posted on the Sensory Wiki.

To make a submission, use the submission form found at: http://www.sensorysociety.org/ssp/wiki/

Judging:

Judging of the articles will be done by the editorial board of the Sensory Wiki. Results will be shared with Editorial Board on June 10th and winners announced on June15th 2011. Articles will be judged for their (1) appropriateness for the sensory Wiki (2) completeness in describing the subject (3) adherence to the rules including formatting and (4) grammar.

The deadline for submissions is May 15th 2011 and winners will be announced on June 15th 2011.

Also, all student submissions that are accepted for posting on the Wiki will receive a ‘FREE’ 2011 student membership to the Society of Sensory Professionals.

To access a webinar recording, you must be logged into your membership account.  Once logged in, use the “SSP conferences” menu option (left column) to go the conference area, and from there click on the “2010 Presentations” link (left column).  The last line for each talk will include a link for the recording (”access webinar recoding”).  The page that displays will give the talk title and a button to load the webinar.  Please note that if you don’t start the video soon enough, you may get a “stream not found” message.  In that case, just refresh the web page and try again.

When the video starts, hovering the mouse cursor over the image will display the control bar.  In addition to pause/resume and sound volume controls, you can use the progress bar to move within the video, and also use the full screen control (far right) to enlarge the display.

We regret to inform you that due to a technical problems, the first six minutes of “A Case Study: How Consumer Insights Drove the Successful Launch of a New Red Wine” by Laure Blauvelt were not recorded.  In addition, about ten seconds of audio and fifty seconds of visuals were not recorded in “Selecting the Optimum Product Portfolio” by R. Teratanavat.  Finally, forty seconds of audio were lost from Loss’ presentation “Principles and Applications of Perceptual Mapping Techniques in Culinary Research and Menu Development”.  All recording gaps (including a few not detailed above) are noted with the presentation description.

Winner of the Joel L. Sidel Award for Outstanding Presentation of Innovation was Alisa Doan of The Sensory Analysis Center, Kansas State University for her poster, “Predicting Success for New Flavors with Information that is Already Known.”

Winner of the Herbert Stone Award for Outstanding Presentation of Leadership was Ellen D. Mahan of Sensory Evaluation Center, Pennsylvania State University for her poster, “People Like Potato Juice and Chocolate Applesauce? The Importance of Using Nonsense Products in Online Panelist Screening Forms.”

Winner of the Elaine Skinner Award for Outstanding Presentation on an Applied Topic was Lydia Rice of the Sensory Evaluation Service Center, University of Arkansas for her talk, “Consumer-based Optimization of Juice Blends using the ABCD Mixture Design Model.”

Winner of the Jean Caul Award for Outstanding Use of Scientific Principles in Research Design, Execution, and Interpretation was Dominique Sinopoli of Cornell University for her poster, “Does Loyalty Dictate Blind Preference?”

Winner of the Beverley Kroll Award for Outstanding Presentation that Develops or Expands a Method was Thierry Worch of OP&P Product Research for his talk, “Can the consumers express their needs? Use of Ideal Profiles to understand and validate what is in the consumers’ mind.”