Kathryn Boor

Kathryn J Boor is an American food scientist and academic administrator. She is the dean of Cornell University Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education.[1] Previously she served as the Ronald P Lynch Dean of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.[2]

Kathryn Boor
Born	New York
Spouse(s)	Martin Wiedmann
Academic background
Education	Cornell University (BS) University of Wisconsin-Madison (MS) University of California, Davis (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Food Science

Early life

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 the University of Wisconsin-Madison 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.[3]

Career

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.[4] She was appointed as dean in 2010.[5]

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 [6]
• 2018 Woman of Distinction by New York Senate [7]

References

1. "Kathryn Boor named Graduate School dean, vice provost". Retrieved 2020-10-11.
2. "Kathryn Boor | Department of Food Science". foodscience.cals.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
3. "Kathryn J. Boor, Ph.D". NY State Senate. 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
4. Weller, Daniel; Andrus, Alexis; Wiedmann, Martin; den Bakker, Henk C. (2015). "Listeria booriae sp. nov. and Listeria newyorkensis sp. nov., from food processing environments in the USA". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (1): 286–292. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.070839-0. PMID 25342111.
5. "Dean Kathryn J. Boor College of Agriculture and Life Sciences". cals.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
6. "Graduation 2016: Honorary degree and fellowship awardees announced". Harper Adams University. September 9, 2016.
7. "Kathryn J. Boor, Ph.D Honoree Profile". New York Senate. April 26, 2018.

External links

• Cornell CALS College Leadership