Two Division of Meals Science and Know-how school members within the Texas A&M School of Agriculture and Life Sciences have acquired 2023 Institute of Meals Technologists Achievement Awards.
The Institute of Meals Technologists, IFT, is a discussion board through which meals science professionals and technologists can collaborate, study and contribute towards inspiring and reworking scientific data into options. These awards acknowledge a person or group for exceptional contributions in analysis, functions and repair within the meals science occupation.
Mian Nadeem Riaz, Ph.D., affiliate head of the Division of Meals Science, acquired the Worldwide Meals Safety Award in honor of Bor S. Luh, and Rebecca Creasy, Ph.D., tutorial assistant professor, acquired the Excellence in Training Award in honor of William V. Cruess.
Worldwide Meals Safety Award
The Worldwide Meals Safety Award in honor of Bor S. Luh acknowledges somebody who has made substantial advances in how meals could be manufactured and made out there to satisfy the dietary wants and meals preferences of individuals residing in rising economies in a way that’s cost-effective for each shoppers and producers.
Riaz, additionally the holder of the Islamic Meals and Diet Council of America, IFANCA, Professorship in Meals Variety, established two meals processing facilities at two universities in his native Pakistan, in collaboration with the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement.
“This recognition is a testomony to the arduous work and dedication of my group, colleagues and companions who share the identical ardour for advancing meals science and expertise to deal with world meals and vitamin safety challenges,” Riaz mentioned.
Riaz hopes the award will encourage extra worldwide cooperation and data alternate within the area of meals range and extrusion expertise, which might result in modern options that profit rising economies and past.
“I’m grateful for the assist of my division, Texas A&M, and IFANCA, who’ve supplied the platform and assets for me to pursue my ardour and make a significant influence on the planet,” he mentioned.
Riaz joined Texas A&M 30 years in the past after finishing his doctorate in meals science on the College of Maine. From 2005 to 2020, he was director of Texas A&M’s Course of Engineering Analysis and Improvement Middle. He at the moment serves as director of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s Extrusion Program, the place he affords 5 extrusion programs yearly.
Riaz additionally teaches the favored meals science course, “Non secular and Ethnic Meals,” which boasts greater than 1,000 enrolled college students every semester. The course is a capstone within the Meals Variety Innovation Program, which he established from a $5 million IFANCA endowment.
He has revealed seven books, 27 guide chapters and 160 papers, along with giving greater than 600 talks in 60 completely different nations. His guide, “Halal Meals Manufacturing,” is used broadly in universities for meals science college students and has been translated into Chinese language, Persian and Korean.
Excellence in Training Award
The Excellence in Training Award is introduced to a person who has at the very least 10 years of educating expertise at a college providing a level in meals science or meals expertise and who teaches programs that deal immediately with meals science and/or meals expertise.
Creasy’s expertise in meals science and vitamin ranges from the meals trade to larger schooling and neighborhood outreach. Her tutorial focus at Texas A&M contains introductory meals science and human vitamin programs, examine overseas packages, internship packages and different high-impact studying experiences. She additionally serves because the Texas A&M IFT Scholar Affiliation chapter school advisor.
“The which means of this award is so particular, with the nomination course of and suggestions coming from present and former college students and colleagues,” she mentioned. “The data of igniting a ardour for meals science in college students and recognition of successfully mentoring the long run leaders of the trade in addition to serving to them attain private {and professional} objectives makes my profession worthwhile and significant.”
Together with mentoring each graduate and undergraduate college students, her scholarly pursuits combine meals science and vitamin, together with:
— Improvement and implementation of lively studying strategies for meals science and vitamin programs.
— Improvement of STEM outreach packages for youth in meals science and vitamin.
— Client schooling addressing bioactive meals components.
— Useful meals and secure meals dealing with.
— The consequences of meals processing on nutrient content material.
Creasy is an lively member of the IFT and American Society for Diet. She can also be a member of Phi Tau Sigma Honor Society of Meals Scientists, Gamma Sigma Delta Worldwide Agricultural Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
“The tutorial giants, on whose shoulders I’ve stood and who’ve beforehand received this award, make this an much more particular occasion,” Creasy mentioned. “My objective is to create leaders in meals science who could make impactful, constructive adjustments on the planet. “I’m hoping that sooner or later a few of these college students may be acknowledged with this identical award, which is without doubt one of the most prestigious honors {that a} meals science educator can obtain.”
