A new Iowa State University College of Human Sciences fellowship will support efforts to detect and eliminate food-borne pathogens like salmonella and listeria. Byron Brehm-Stecher, an associate professor in food science and human nutrition, is the first faculty member to be named a Dean’s Faculty Fellow, an honor made possible by an anonymous gift to the College of Human Sciences. Brehm-Stecher will receive $30,000 a year for two years to support his research in food safety, including a cutting-edge effort to develop applications for functional food ingredients that will help protect against dangerous microbes, the college said in a release. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six Americans become ill every year from food-borne pathogens, which can cause serious illness and even death.