Faculty Profiles

Faculty and Academic Staff for Food Science

	Terry Acree Professor Email: tea2@cornell.edu	Terry Acree`s laboratory is interested in how stimulant composition is represented in perception. A seemingly infinite number of perceptions are invoked by less than 1000 odorants found in the human sensory environment. Mediated by sensory neurons expressing a given receptor these odorants generate neural excitation in the brain that is a topographic map of sensory information. Recent literature suggest that olfactory receptor expression is highly variant in the human population and that this ... More >
	Kathleen Arnink Lecturer Email: kja1@cornell.edu	Kathleen Arnink’s main focus currently is teaching enology courses in the Cornell University Enology and Viticulture program in the Food Science department. Many of her courses are co-taught with faculty in Horticulture. In addition to developing courses in Enology for students in Cornell’s new undergraduate Enology and Viticulture major, she advises undergraduate students, and coordinates internship opportunities in the wine industry for enology students. Her research specialty is microbial ... More >
	David Barbano Professor Email: dmb37@cornell.edu	David Barbano is a professor in the Department of Food Science. Dave received his BS in Biology/Food Science in 1970 at Cornell University and his MS/Ph.D. in Food Science also at Cornell University (MS in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1976). He joined the Department of Food Science as an Assistant Professor in 1980. In 1988 he became the Director of the Northeast Dairy Foods Research Center. He is a member of ADSA, IFT, IDFA, AOACI, IAMFES, IDF, and NYS Assoc. of Milk and Food Sanitarians. Dave is past ... More >
	Carl Batt Professor Email: cab10@cornell.edu	Many of the problems we face require an interdisciplinary approach and innovations on established technology in order to be solved. Our group consists of individuals with a broad set of skills and understanding, enabling us to tackle projects of a very complex nature. Collaborators here at Cornell University and numerous other academic, industrial, and governmental institutions throughout the world provides are part of this exciting community. Our work strives to provide advancements in basic ... More >
	Elizabeth Bihn Senior Extension Associate Email: eab38@cornell.edu	Elizabeth A. Bihn is a Senior Extension Associate in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University. She is currently the director of the Produce Safety Alliance and program coordinator for the National Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Program. The main focus of her work is to reduce microbial risks to fresh fruits and vegetables through research and extension programs developed for and in collaboration with growers, farm workers, produce industry personnel, students, teachers, and ... More >
	Kathryn Boor Professor Email: kjb4@cornell.edu	Kathryn J. Boor is Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Dr. Boor served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Food Science at Cornell University (2007-2010). Dr. Boor earned a BS in Food Science from Cornell University and an MS in Food Science from the University of Wisconsin. She conducted research for two years in Kenya, East Africa, as a member of a multi-disciplinary team working with small-scale farmers to enhance sustainable and safe goat milk ... More >
	Malcolm Bourne Emeritus Email: mcb2@cornell.edu	I became Emeritus Professor in September 1995. My areas of concentration are: Texture and rheology of food, fruit and vegetable processing technologies, and international technology transfer. I am still active in my professional societies and come into my office at Cornell for several hours every day I am in town. I give an occasional invited lecture and also serve as a consultant to some corporations. My major professional society, The Institute of Food Technologists, gave me the Nicholas ... More >
	John Brady Professor Email: jwb7@cornell.edu	John Brady is a Professor in the Department of Food Science at the Ithaca campus. He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975, and a PhD in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980. During much of his graduate studies he was a visiting staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He received his postdoctoral training in Chemistry at Harvard University working with Prof. Martin Karplus. He joined the ... More >
Image not available	Zhiqiang Cheng Research Associate Email: zc13@cornell.edu
	Robin Dando Assistant Professor Email: rd426@cornell.edu	Overview The bulk of my training prior to joining Cornell has been in Physics, Physiology and Neuroscience, thus I hope that I can bring something of a different viewpoint to the Department of Food Science. I work on the basic interactions between our body and the food we consume, and how this shapes what we choose to eat. The mammalian taste system consists of many complex events which take a simple receptor activation at the taste bud, to a rich and emotional response such as that elicited ... More >
	Richard Durst Emeritus Email: rad2@cornell.edu	Dr. Durst is currently consulting as an expert witness in pharmaceutical patent litigation cases. More >
	Christopher Gerling Extension Associate Email: cjg9@cornell.edu	It is my objective to leverage the resources of Cornell University so they might benefit the wine industry of New York State and the Northeastern United States so that wine of the highest possible quality and profitability is produced. To this end, I engage with industry members in formal and informal settings to help understand commercial challenges and design extension materials that best address these needs. I try to serve as a liaison between the research and commercial sectors to help ... More >
	Ray Glahn Professor Associate Courtesy Email: rpg3@cornell.edu
	Robert Gravani Professor Director of the National Good Agricultural Practices Program Email: rbg2@cornell.edu	I am actively engaged in food safety extension/outreach activities with all sectors of the food system including production agriculture, food processing, food retailing, food service, regulatory training, consumer information, as well as food protection and defense (food biosecurity). In addition, I teach or co-teach three Food Science courses, am a Dining Discussion Faculty Fellow and maintain a small research program. More >
	Yong Hang Professor Email: ydh1@cornell.edu	Hang received BS, MS, and PhD degrees from National Taiwan University, University of Alberta, and McGill University, respectively. He has been a faculty member of the graduate field of food science and technology at Cornell since 1976. He is also a faculty member of the graduate field of microbiology at Cornell. More >
Image not available	Patricia Howe Lecturer Email: pah237@cornell.edu
	Geza Hrazdina Emeritus Email: gh10@cornell.edu	Specialty in Food Science: Chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology of flavonoids/anthocyanins; biochemistry and molecular biology of fruit ripening; molecular approaches to extend the shelf life of fruits. More >
Image not available	Harry Lawless Emeritus Email: htl1@cornell.edu	Professor Lawless specializes in sensory evaluatiion of food and supervises the Food Science Department sensory testing facility. He teaches courses on sensory evaluation and flavor perception. His current research focus concerns taste and smell perception and methods for measuring food perception and acceptability. More >
	Chang Lee Professor Email: cyl1@cornell.edu	Chang Lee has been working on various subjects related to biochemistry and processing of fruits and vegetables. His recent research focuses upon functional aspects of fruits and vegetables that related to antioxidative, antiproliferative, anticancer, antineurodegenerative and nutraceutical activities of bioactive flavonoids. More >
	Rui Liu Professor Email: RL23@cornell.edu	Rui Hai Liu is a Professor in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Liu received his Ph.D. in Toxicology from Cornell University in 1993. He also holds a M.D. in Medicine and a M.S. in Nutrition and Food Toxicology. Prior to joining the faculty, Liu was a Research Associate in the Department of Clinical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. His effort distribution is 60% research, and 40% teaching. More >
	Anna Mansfield Assistant Professor Email: akm87@cornell.edu	Anna Katharine Mansfield is an assistant professor of enology at Cornell’s NYSAES in Geneva, NY. She first worked in the wine industry in North Carolina’s Yadkin Valley, received graduate degrees at Virginia Tech and the University of Minnesota, and served as the first Enology Project leader at the University of Minnesota from 2001-2008. Mansfield returned to the east coast in 2009, and currently focuses her efforts in aiding small regional wineries through enology extension, wine sensory ... More >
	Dennis Miller Professor Email: ddm2@cornell.edu	Dennis Miller is Professor and Chair of the Department of Food Science at Cornell. He holds a joint appointment in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and is a member of the graduate fields of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition. Miller earned a PhD in nutrition from Cornell, an MS in biochemistry from the University of Washington, and a B.A. in chemistry from Augsburg College in Minnesota. MillerÕs research and teaching programs are focused on the relationships between nutrition, food ... More >
	Carmen Moraru Associate Professor Email: cim24@cornell.edu	Carmen Moraru is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of physical and engineering properties of foods, food/dairy processing and food safety engineering. More >
	Steven Mulvaney Associate Professor Email: sjm7@cornell.edu	Mulvaney joined the Cornell faculty in 1990 as Assistant Professor with interests in the area of food processing and engineering. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri. He received his BS (Food Science) from the University of Massachusetts, and his MS (Food Science) and PhD (Food Science) from Cornell University. More >
	Steven Murphy Senior Extension Associate Email: scm4@cornell.edu	Sr. Extension Associate in the Milk Quality Improvement Program (MQIP), a dairy farmer funded extension and research program, in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University. Areas of expertise include dairy product quality & safety, dairy microbiology, standard dairy laboratory procedures, sensory evalutation of fluid milk and cottage cheese. More >
	Alicia Orta-Ramirez Lecturer Email: ao98@cornell.edu	Alicia Orta-Ramirez is a Lecturer and the Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Food Science at the Ithaca campus. She received a DVM degree from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, in 1989, and a MS and PhD in Food Science from Michigan State University, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. She worked as a Visiting Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science at MSU from 2000 until 2006. She joined the Cornell faculty in January 2007. More >
	Olga Padilla-Zakour Associate Professor Email: oip1@cornell.edu	Research program focused on applied research to add value and safety to agricultural commodities with an emphasis on small scale processing. Adding value implies increasing profitability, improving quality and/or increasing health benefits. Currently we are developing better processing techniques that increase the value of plant-based foods. We also study the factors that affect the safety of specialty foods manufactured by small-scale processors. We evaluate methods to provide comprehensive ... More >
Image not available	Felicia Pitici Research Associate Email: fp42@cornell.edu
Image not available	Robert Ralyea Senior Extension Associate Email: rdr10@cornell.edu	Rob Ralyea is a senior extension associate in the Department of Food Science. He studied at Kansas State University (B.S., Animal Science and Industry), and Cornell University (M.S., Food Science). He joined the Cornell faculty in 2004 after retiring from the United States Army. He manages dairy extension programs throughout the State of NY. He is an extension outreach member of the Milk Quality Improvement Program, which utilizes a Voluntary Shelf-Life (VSL) Program to analyze the sensory, ... More >
	M. Rao Emeritus Email: mar2@cornell.edu
	Joe Regenstein Professor Email: jmr9@cornell.edu	Joe M. Regenstein is a Professor in the Department of Food Science. He received a B.A. in chemistry from Cornell`s College of Arts and Sciences, an MS in dairy chemistry from CALS, and a PhD in biophysics from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. He joined the faculty in 1974 and is a member of the Field of Food Science and the Field of International Development. He is an Adjunct Professor in Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences in the Vet School, a member of the Governing Board of the ... More >
	Syed Rizvi Professor Email: ssr3@cornell.edu	Sy Rizvi is professor of food process engineering in the Department of Food Science and also holds the title of International Professor in the college. He is intereted in engineering and processing aspects of food science and value addition for global markets. He has published over 150 technical papers, co-authored/edited six books and holds six patents. Currently he is also associated with the Department of State advising the Bureau of Economics, Energy and Agricultural Affairs on use of ... More >
	Gavin Sacks Associate Professor Email: gls9@cornell.edu	My research and teaching interests are in understanding the enological and viticultural parameters that shape wine flavor from vine to bottle. I am actively involved in the development of the Research and Teaching components of the new Enology and Viticulture program at Cornell. More >
	Karl Siebert Professor Email: kjs3@cornell.edu	I worked in the brewing industry for 18 years before I became an academic, holding positions from Research Associate to Director of Research (the last 8 years) at the Stroh Brewery Co. in Detroit. I joined Cornell at the Geneva Experiment Station in 1990 as a Full Professor. I served as Chair of the Food Science & Technology Dept. for the first five years (two terms). Since then I have mainly been engaged in research with some teaching and extension; my current effort distribution officially ... More >
Image not available	Aaron Strickland Research Associate Email: ads72@cornell.edu
Image not available	Elad Tako Professor, Courtesy Email: et79@cornell.edu
Image not available	Gretchen Wall Extension Supp Spec II Email: glw53@cornell.edu	The PSA was established through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Cornell University in October 2010 for the purpose of education and outreach to improve understanding and implementation of GAPs and co-management strategies. More >
	Martin Wiedmann Professor Email: mw16@cornell.edu	The overall goal of Martin's academic program is to develop and communicate the scientific knowledge needed to prevent and control foodborne and zoonotic diseases caused by bacteria. Current work in his laboratory focuses on microorganisms that cause a considerable number of foodborne deaths annually in the US, including Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella. Listeria monocytogenes causes disease in more than 20 animal species as well as a severe, but rare human foodborne disease with about 250 ... More >
	Randy Worobo Associate Professor Email: rww8@cornell.edu	Alternative approaches to enhance the safety and quality of food is the primary objective of my research. Long- term research projects include the chemical and genetic characterization of antimicrobial peptides (bacteriocins) produced by bacteria. These peptides have a broad range of hosts that include pathogenic Gram positive and negative bacteria as well as heat resistant molds and bacteria. It is believed that these peptides are self-defense mechanisms to protect limited food supplies in the ... More >