The William V. Cruess Award has been awarded every year since 1970. It is awarded for excellence in teaching in food science and technology and is the only award in which student members in the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) can nominate. This award is named after William V. Cruess (1886-1968), a food science professor at the University of California, Berkeley and later at the University of California, Davis who was also the first ever IFT Award winner when he won the Nicholas Appert Award in 1942.
Award winners receive a bronze medal showing a side view of Cruess from the Northern California Section of IFT and a USD 3000 honorarium from the IFT office in Chicago, Illinois.
Winners
YearWinner 1970 Marcus Karel 1971 Clifford A. Samuels 1972 Edward E. Burns 1973 John R. Whitaker 1974 Elizabeth F. Stier 1975 Charles M. Stine 1976 Fergus M. Clydesdale 1977 Rose Marie Pangborn 1978 Owen R. Fennema 1979 Theodore P. Labuza 1980 Roy G. Arnold 1981 Richard L. Merson 1982 John J. Powers 1983 James L. Oblinger 1984 C. Anthon Ernstrom 1985 Norman N. Potter 1986 John W. Erdman, Jr. 1987 J. Ian Gray 1988 Mark A. Ubersax 1989 Howard A. Morris 1990 James W. Berry 1991 Paul A. Lachance 1992 Daniel E. Carroll, Jr. 1993 Michael E. Mangino 1994 Peggy M. Foegeding 1995 John B. Allred 1996 Grady W. Chism III 1997 Faye M. Dong 1998 Richard W. Hartel 1999 Karen M. Schaich 2000 Richard D. Ludescher 2001 Shelly J. Schmidt 2002 S. Suzanne Nielsen 2003 John Rupnow 2004 Wayne T. Iwaoka 2005 Brian E. Farkas 2006 Robert L. Shewfelt 2007 Ronald E. Wrolstad 2008 Stephanie Doores 2009 Mukund Karwe 2010 E. Allen Foegeding 2011 Jeff Culbertson
References
List of past winners - Official site