You are cordially invited to join a conversation on Tuesday, October 14 at 2:30 pm in 1951 Food Sciences Building with Dr. Richard Hall, Past President of the International Union of Food Science and Technology and a Past President of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).
After the conversation, please attend Dr. Hall's lecture, "Food and Health: The Continuing Search for Connections," at 4:00 pm in the Campanile Room of Memorial Union. This lecture event is brought to ISU through the University Lectures Program and is co-sponsored by the College of Human Sciences, Food Science and Human Nutrition and the Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).
This conversation and lecture is part of a number of activities going on in conjunction with World Food Prize week and the Iowa World Hunger Summit. For more information on the Iowa World Hunger Summit, visit www.iowahungersummit.org.
Dr. Richard Hall - Biosketch
Dr. Hall is a Past President of the International Union of Food Science and Technology and a Past President of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). In the latter capacity, he organized IFT's food safety and nutrition information program. He is also a past president of the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers' Association of the U.S., in which he played a key role in organizing and implementing a program to review the safety-in-use of flavor ingredients. A Fellow of IFT, Dr. Hall has spoken widely in the United States and abroad on food safety, toxicology, and nutrition.
He was a Vice Chairman of the Food and Nutrition Board of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a member of the Academy's Committee on Saccharin and Food Safety Policy, and of numerous other committees and boards of the Academy's National Research Council, including, most recently, the Committee on the Comparative Risks of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens.
Dr. Hall is a Distinguished Fellow of the Toxicology Forum, a member of the Society of Toxicology, the American Chemical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the Board of the National Health Museum. From 1988 to 1991 he served as President of the International Food Biotechnology Council, and from 1993 to 1996, as chair of the Food Forum of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served on the Board of the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and as a member of the Health Advisory Board of the Bloomberg School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Dr. Hall is the author, co-author, or co-editor of more than 90 scientific and professional articles and books. He has received the Nicholas Appert, International, Fellers, and Oser Awards of the IFT, the Kohnstamm Prize in Industrial Chemistry, and the 25th Anniversary medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
