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AACC News November 12, 1999
1999 AACC Award Winners Named AACC has announced the recipients of the association's 1999 awards, honoring industry leaders and researchers in cereal proteins, agricultural engineering, starch science, and biochemistry. Jean- Claude Antran, A W. (Sandy) MacGregor, and Warren Schwecke have been named AACC Fellows, an award given in recognition of a member's outstanding contributions to cereal science and technology. The award honors achievements in research, industry, leadership, education, administration, communication, or regulatory affairs. Steve Eckhoff, director of a teaching and research program in bioprocess engineering at the University of Illinois, is the recipient of the 1999 AACC Excellence in Teaching Award. Paul Seib has been named the 1999 Alsberg-Schoch Lectureship winner, and Jerold (Jerry) A. Bietz is this year's recipient of the Thomas Burr Osborne Medal. Given biannually, the Alsberg-Schoch Lectureship is sponsored by the Corn Refiners Association and recognizes superior contributions to fondamental starch science. Seib will present the award lecture at the AACC Annual Meeting at 1:30 P.M. Monday, November 1 in convention center rooms 611-612. Established in 1926, the Osborne Medal awards distinguished contributions in the field of cereal chemistry. Bietz will present the Osborne Medal Address at the annual meeting convention center on Tuesday, November 2 at 8:30 A.M. in rooms 615-617.
AACC Fellow. Jean-Claude Autran is research director in the Technology of Cereals and Agropolymers Research Unit at the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) Centre in Montpellier, France. He received his Ph.D. degree in the area of wheat histones from Paris University in 1973 and is also qualified as an engineer in agriculture and food industries. Autran's principal research areas include varietal identification of cereals by electrophoresis, chemistry of wheat proteins, biochemical basis of bread wheats and durum wheat quality, and development of biochemical tests for screening genotypes at the breeding stage. His research currently focuses on the physicochemical basis of cereal grain hardness, fragmentation, and fractionation in connection with technological , mechanical, and microstructural aspects. An author or coauthor of 115 research paper s and book chapters, Autran also teaches cereal science and technologv at the Universitv of Montp ellier. hltp://www.scisoc.org/aacc/news/
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