On July 14, Cornell University Department of Food Science professors Carmen Moraru and David Barbano will join an elite list of scholars as both are honored by the American Dairy Science Association with awards for excellence. The pair are two of just 20 researchers who will be recognized when the ADSA and the American Society of Animal Science convene for their annual conference from July 12-16 in Orlando, Fla.
Moraru – an associate professor with research and teaching interests in the physical and engineering properties of foods, food/dairy processing and food safety engineering – will be receiving the International Dairy Foods Association Teaching Award in Dairy Science. The award was created to recognize outstanding teaching of undergraduate students in dairy foods. Since 2003, Moraru has been teaching Unit Operations and Dairy Foods Processing. She also taught for several years the Dairy Chemistry section of Food Chemistry, as well as courses and laboratories on Dairy Processing at the University of Galati, Romania. Event organizers noted that Moraru is an outstanding teacher who is beloved by her students. She twice received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Cornell Institute for Food Science
Barbano – a professor whose research is focused on the chemistry and processing of dairy foods – has contributed to ADSA for 40 years and will receive the Elanco Award for Excellence in Dairy Science. Organizers noted that he was raised in Cazenovia, NY, and has worked to determine the impact of CLA on healthful quality of milk products, develop novel processes to make low‐fat cheeses, determinthe impact of raw milk quality on fluid milk shelf‐life, elaborate the mechanism of gravity separation for removal of bacteria, spores and somatic cells from raw milk; and improve control of cheese quality and the efficiency of microfiltration of milk to make novel new high‐quality functional food ingredients.
More than 3,000 attendees are expected to attend the joint annual meeting. The meeting will host more than 40 symposia, more than 2,000 oral and poster presentations, and many commercial and educational exhibits.
