请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Kathryn Boor
释义

  1. Early Life

  2. Career

  3. Awards and Honors

  4. References

{{short description|American food scientist and academic administrator}}Kathryn J Boor is an American food scientist and academic administrator. She is the Ronald P Lynch Dean of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.[1]

Early Life

Kathryn Boor was born and brought up on a family-owned dairy farm in Chemung County in upstate New York. She obtained a BS in Food Science from Cornell University in 1980, and an MS in Food Science from Wisconsin University in 1983. She then worked in Kenya with limited-resource farmers for Winrock International, before coming back to the US to pursue a PhD in Microbiology at the University of California, Davis, from where she graduated in 1994.[2]

Career

Dr Boor returned to Cornell University in 1994 as the first woman Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science. She established the Food Safety Laboratory. Her research focuses on identifying biological factors that affect the transmission of bacteria in food systems. A newly discovered bacteria was named Listeria booriae to honor her work on Listeria monocytogenes, a food-borne pathogen.[3] She was appointed as dean in 2010.[4]

Awards and Honors

  • 2000 USDA Honor Award as a member of the Listeria Outbreak Working Group
  • 2000 Foundation Scholar Award from the American Dairy Science Association
  • 2006 DeLaval Dairy Extension Award from the American Dairy Science Association
  • 2002 Samuel Cate Prescott award for outstanding research from the Institute of Food Technologists
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
  • Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology
  • Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Honorary Doctorate from Harper Adams University in the United Kingdom in 2016
  • 2018 Woman of Distinction by New York Senate

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://foodscience.cals.cornell.edu/people/kathryn-boor/|title=Kathryn Boor {{!}} Department of Food Science|website=foodscience.cals.cornell.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-10-13}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/thomas-f-omara/kathryn-j-boor-phd|title=Kathryn J. Boor, Ph.D|date=2018-04-27|work=NY State Senate|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en}}
3. ^{{Cite journal|last=Weller|first=Daniel|last2=Andrus|first2=Alexis|last3=Wiedmann|first3=Martin|last4=den Bakker|first4=Henk C.|date=2015|title=Listeria booriae sp. nov. and Listeria newyorkensis sp. nov., from food processing environments in the USA|url=http://ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.070839-0|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=65|issue=1|pages=286–292|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.070839-0}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://cals.cornell.edu/about/leadership/dean/|title=Dean Kathryn J. Boor College of Agriculture and Life Sciences|website=cals.cornell.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-11-02}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boor, Kathryn}}

5 : American food scientists|Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni|Cornell University faculty|People from Chemung County, New York|University of California, Davis alumni

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/12 15:03:18