Milk Industry Foundation Teaching Award
Recognizing Teaching Excellence in Dairy Science
With its Teaching Award, IDFA's constituent organization, the Milk Industry Foundation, recognizes outstanding teachers of undergraduate students of dairy science. The winner must demonstrate exceptional ability as a teacher at an at accredited college and university, be an active teacher when nominated with not less than a total of 10 years of active teaching preceding, and have been a member of the American Dairy Science Association for at least five years. The award is presented every two years at the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) Annual Meeting.
Karen Schmidt, a professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at Kansas State University, was named the 2011 recipient. Schmidt's teaching responsibilities include Fundamentals of Milk Processing, Food Product Evaluation, Dairy Foods Processing and Technology and Quality Assurance of Food Products, and her research program focuses on processing and quality of dairy and non-dairy foods. Schmidt received the award during the American Dairy Science Association's annual meeting in July.
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