Title: Food Science Educational Trends in the US
报告题目：美国食品科学教育发展趋势
Presenter：Michael Edward Vayda 博士
报告人：Dr. Michael Edward Vayda
报告时间：2016年3月17日下午1.30
Report Time: 2016年3月17日下午1.30
报告地点：西区管理楼三楼报告厅
Report Location: Lecture hall,3rd floor,managing building,west campus
报告人简介：
Introduction:
Michael Edward Vayda博士，现任美国阿肯色大学农业食品与生命科学学院院长。1979年获美国新罕布什尔大学动物学、生物化学双学士学位；1981年、1983年
分别获美国普林斯顿大学生物化学硕士学位和分子生物学博士学位。1984-1986年于加州大学伯克利分校从事植物分子基因学博士后研究。发表论文和论著50余篇/部，科研经费共达940万美元。Vayda博士曾为美国佛蒙特大学农业与生命科学学院副院长；缅因州大学林业与农业学院院长助理。美国USDA-NRI&NSF基金评审、ESCOP预算和立法委员会、APLU预算宣传委员会顾问；缅因马铃薯协会、缅因蓝莓协会、缅因工业研究所；美国东北地区实验研究协会基地负责人、佛蒙特大学农业创新计划执行委员会委员、缅因州生物技术中心主席。Vayda博士为食品体系研究中的凯洛格基金获得者，并获得林业与农业学院杰出公共服务奖。
Dr. Michael E. (“Mike”) Vayda is an accomplished scholar, educator, and administrator. He received his bachelor degrees from the University of New Hampshire (B.S. Biochemistry 1979; B.A. Zoology 1979), his graduate degrees from Princeton University (M.A. Biochemical Sciences 1981; Ph.D. Molecular Biology 1983), and post-doctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley (Plant Molecular Genetics 1984-1986). Dr. Vayda has held academic appointments as Instructor (Princeton University 1983-1984), Assistant and Associate Professor (University of Maine 1986-1991, 1991-1998), Professor (University of Maine 1998-2004; University of Vermont 2004-present), and Visiting Scholar (Northeastern University 1994-1995; Palmer Station Antarctica 1991 and 1993). Mike Vayda’s administrative appointments have been as Assistant Director of the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station (1998-2004), as Associate Dean of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont (2004-present) and as Associate Director of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (2004-present). Dr. Vayda joined the University of Arkansas in July 2010 as Dean of the College of Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences (named after the honorable Dale Bumpers, esteemed US Senator from Arkansas), and as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs in the state-wide Division of Agriculture.
He has published 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals and books and has been awarded more than $9.4 million in extramural funding during his career. Dr. Vayda has served the profession on grant review panels (USDA-NRI, NSF), numerous national committees (ESCOP Budget and Legislative Committee Chair, APLU Budget Advocacy Committee, ESCOP Chair’s Advisory Committee, as co-organizer of international symposia, and as liaison to private sector organizations (Maine Potato Board, Maine Blueberry Commission, Biotechnology Association of Maine, Maine Center for Innovation in Biotechnology, Maine Technology Institute, Vermont & New England Dairy Promotion Boards, and Vermont’s Center for Emerging Technologies). Vayda also served as chair of the Northeast Regional Research Association Experiment Station Directors, executive committee member of the University of Vermont's "Ag Innovations Initiative," and president of the Maine Center of Innovation in Biotechnology.
He was named a Kellogg Foundation Fellow in the Food Systems Leadership Institute and received the College of Natural Sciences Forestry and Agriculture Outstanding Public Service award.
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