The Myron Solberg Award has been awarded every year since 2004 by the
Institute of Food Technologists
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is an international, non-profit scientific society of professionals engaged in food science, food technology, and related areas in academia, government and industry. It has more than 17,000 members from ...
(IFT). It is awarded for leadership in establishing, successfully developing, and continuing a
cooperative
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organization involving
academia
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,
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
, and
industry
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Economics
* Industry (economics), a generally categorized branch of economic activity
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* The wider industrial sector ...
. The award is named for
Myron Solberg Myron "Mike" Solberg (1930-July 28, 2001) was an American food scientist who was renowned for his collaboration with academia, government, and industry that better advanced food technology.
Education
A native of Massachusetts, Solberg earned his B. ...
(1930-2001), a
food science
Food science is the basic science and applied science of food; its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the developm ...
professor at
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...
who founded the institution Center for Advanced Food Technology in 1984 and headed the center until his 2000 retirement.
Award winners received a
USD
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3000
honorarium An honorarium is an ''ex gratia'' payment, i.e., a payment made, without the giver recognizing themselves as having any liability or legal obligation, to a person for his or her services in a volunteer capacity or for services for which fees are no ...
and a plaque from the Myron Solberg Endowment Fund of the IFT Foundation.
Winners
References
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List of past winners- Official site
Food technology awards