Riaz receives alumni award
IFT professional member Mian Nadeem Riaz, a member of the graduate faculty in the Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science and director of the Process Engineering R&D Center at Texas A&M University, has been awarded the 2016 Bernard Lown ’42 Alumni Humanitarian Award from the University of Maine Alumni Assoc.
IFT professional member Mian Nadeem Riaz, a member of the graduate faculty in the Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science and director of the Process Engineering R&D Center at Texas A&M University, has been awarded the 2016 Bernard Lown ’42 Alumni Humanitarian Award from the University of Maine Alumni Assoc. The award recognizes University of Maine graduates who distinguish themselves in their service to humanity.
“I see my years starting at the University of Maine’s not only as a beginning of an education but of a career that has now brought me full circle to professor,” says Riaz.
Riaz earned his PhD in 1992 and was the University of Maine’s first doctoral student in the food science program. Riaz has spent his career working to improve the public’s understanding of nutrition and food customs in both the United States and around the world. He has shared information about extrusion technology in underdeveloped countries to help create low-cost foods.
Riaz has worked for the Texas A&M University system for 24 years and has published five books, 22 chapters, and more than 100 papers on extrusion and other related topics. He is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences and meetings, and to date he has delivered more than 300 presentations in 55 countries.