FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Bailey Wood, bwood@idfa.org

Champaign, Illinois—The American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA®) is pleased to announce Paul Kindstedt as the 2018 recipient of the International Dairy Foods Association Research Award in Dairy Foods Processing. The award was presented on Monday, June 25, 2018, during the awards ceremony at the ADSA Annual Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The International Dairy Foods Association Research Award in Dairy Foods Processing was created to recognize individuals whose research findings have allowed dairy foods processors to develop new products and to make a significant improvement in the quality, safety, or processing efficiency of dairy foods. The winner must have conducted research at public or private institutions, and their research findings must have clearly and significantly benefited the dairy foods processing industry in its ability to manufacture products with higher quality or safety (chemical or microbiological) or with increased processing efficiencies. Or, the research must have led to innovative product development with a measurable impact on the market. The adoption of the findings must affect a significant portion of the dairy foods manufactured. Particular attention is paid to the long-term importance of the research application.

Paul Kindstedt received his BS and MS degrees in dairy technology and animal sciences, respectively, from the University of Vermont and his PhD degree in food science from Cornell University. As a professor of food science at the University of Vermont, Kindstedt has made outstanding contributions to the dairy foods industry over the past 32 years. His most recent work includes novel applications of X-ray diffractometry and polarized light microscopy to identify cheese crystals and elucidate their complex roles in the development of cheese texture and other sensory attributes. His work has opened the door to better control over texture development in soft surface ripened cheeses.

It is with great pleasure that ADSA and the International Dairy Foods Association present Paul Kindstedt with the 2018 International Dairy Foods Association Research Award in Dairy Foods Processing.

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