Cool Job: Food Scientist Barbara Ulen Invents New Treats

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Barbara Ulen
Barbara Ulen

When Barbara Ulen decided theater wasn't the right major for her, she sat down with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst course catalog and went looking for something else. She'd suffered from migraine headaches that were triggered by certain foods, so when she came upon food science, the subject intrigued her. She went to the department and said she wanted to be a food science major. It was the 1970s.

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