Farkas Moves to Purdue; Labuza Wins Macy Award
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Support student scholarships
Run or walk to raise money for food science student scholarships at the 13th Annual IFTSA/Feeding Tomorrow Fun Run & Walk on July 15, 2013.
Proceeds from the 5K event, which takes place during the IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo, July 13–16, in Chicago, support the Feeding Tomorrow scholarship fund, which provides scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students studying food science. Not a morning person? For a $30 donation (and no running involved), you will receive an “I Slept In for the Fun Run” t-shirt.
For more information on how to register for the IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo and IFTSA/Feeding Tomorrow Fun Run & Walk, visit www.ift.org/IFT13.
Labuza wins Macy Award
Theodore P. Labuza, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Food Science & Engineering at University of Minnesota, is the 2013 recipient of the Macy Food Science & Technology Award, which recognizes an outstanding example of food technology transfer or cooperation between scientists or technologists in academia, government, or private industry.
Labuza was honored for his significant research contributions that have advanced the food science and technology field’s abilities to globally source, develop, and distribute safe food products. Specifically, his research has focused on the properties of water and the effects on processing, packaging, and storage stability of foods, physical chemistry and kinetics in processing and shelflife testing of foods, time-temperature integrators for food distribution, growth and death kinetics of pathogens, and inactivation kinetics of bioterror agents.
In addition to his research achievements, Labuza was also recognized for his dedication to food science students, having graduated more than 100 students seeking their master’s and Ph.D. degrees as well as mentoring 45 visiting scientists and 27 post-doctorate researchers. The University of Minnesota in 2012 awarded him the Outstanding Mentor of a Postdoctoral Scholar Award. He is a Professional Member of IFT.
IFT posts new videos
IFT presents new videos that focus on nutrition and foods as part of its World Without Food Science™ public education campaign. The videos feature Joanne Slavin, Professor of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Kantha Shelke, Principal, Corvus Blue, and Roger Clemens from E.T. Horn and the University of Southern California. To view the videos and learn more about the campaign, visit www.worldwithoutfoodscience.org.
Purdue names Farkas dept. head
Brian E. Farkas, professor of food science at North Carolina State University, has been appointed professor and head of Purdue University’s Dept. of Food Science effective July 1, 2013.
Farkas succeeds Suzanne Nielsen, who is returning to the College of Agriculture faculty after serving 10 years as department head. He has been alumni distinguished undergraduate professor and undergraduate coordinator of food science at North Carolina State since 2009, and he began working at the university as an assistant professor in the Dept. of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences and rose to professor and associate department head in 2006 before taking on his current duties. Farkas also has had a graduate faculty appointment at Purdue since 2010. He worked as a process engineer at Innovative Foods Inc. from 1985 to 1987 and held research and teaching positions at the University of California–Davis from 1992 to 1994.
In addition to his new responsibilities, Farkas will continue his research in transport phenomena as applied to food and agriculture. The scope of his research specifically focuses on high-temperature interfacial science to develop a better understanding of the flow of mass and energy across solid–liquid–gas interfaces during processing at elevated temperatures. He is a Professional Member of IFT.
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