An Iowa State University graduate student received a first-place award in a global innovation challenge for his work in developing a new way to improve the quality of dairy desserts. Hanyu Yangcheng in the ISU Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and his adviser, Stephanie Clark, won the Institute for Food Technology’s Global Student Innovation Challenge at the IFT’s 2015 conference in Chicago on Monday. Yangcheng, a graduate student in food science and human nutrition, is the creator of KIK, a food stabilizer system. The system is a powder that has the potential to revolutionize dairy products by making them taste and feel better and last longer. To read an ISU story about the invention, click here.