AUBURN, Ala. — Kizmik McPherson began her undergraduate education at the University of Georgia as a pre-pharmacy major but soon realized the field she was most passionate about was food science. Today, McPherson is finishing up her Master of Science degree in food science in the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn University.
“I just wasn’t enjoying my pre-pharmacy classes, but I was taking quite a few food science classes as electives alongside my major classes and was thriving in them,” she said. “That led me to switch my major to food science, and at the end of. . .