Macy Award & Student Recognition Night
Macy Award & Student Recognition Night
Time to celebrate and recognize our student achievements and our Macy Award recipient! Come and join us in honoring the 2025 Macy Award Recipient, Professor Joe M. Regenstein, MN IFT student scholarship winners, MN Academy of Science award winners, and Phi Tau Sigma inductees at Como Park Zoo & Conservatory 1225 Estabrook Drive, St. Paul, MN 55103.
Presentation
How Did I Get Here: The Cornell Kosher and Halal Food Initiative
Forty percent of American packaged goods are kosher. Globally, about a quarter of the world’s population is subject to halal food requirements. And yet, the academic community has generally not addressed the implications of these consumer requirements.
The Cornell Kosher and Halal Food Initiative was created to focus on these two special aspects of food production by serving the food industry to help them meet these requirements, supporting consumers, and educating peers as well as government and non-governmental organizations to understand how these systems might affect their activities. Moreover, as technologies change, religious authorities involved in certifying foods and/or making related religious decisions need to understand the new technologies in sufficient detail to make informed religious decisions.
Dr. Regenstein’s personal journey started as one lecture in an introductory meat science course and has developed into a full-fledged teaching, research and extension program that has spanned the globe.
2025 Macy Award Recipient & Speaker
Dr. Joe M Regenstein
Professor Emeritus, Department of Food Science
Head of the Cornell Kosher and Halal Food Initiative
Cornel University
Adjunct Professor in the Food Industry Program
Kansas State University
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Dr. Joe M Regenstein is a Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Head of the Cornell Kosher and Halal Food Initiative and an Adjunct Professor in Population Medicine and in Jewish Studies. He is an Adjunct Professor at Kansas State (remotely teaching a course on kosher and halal three semesters a year). Joe is also a Distinguished Foreign Expert at Jiangnan University.
His B.A. (Chemistry) and M.S. (Dairy Science) are from Cornell and his Ph.D. in Biophysics is from Brandeis. Joe has received IFT’s Elizabeth Stier Humanitarian, the Bor-Luh International and the Carl Feller’s Career Service Awards. He co-founded and edited IFT’s Religious and Ethnic Foods Division newsletter. An IFT Fellow, Joe served on IFT’s Council and then its Executive Committee and was IFT’s first Congressional Science Fellow. He is on the editorial board of IFT’s Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety and received the Manfred Kroger Outstanding Reviewer aware. Joe is also on the editorial board of the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development. He is a lifetime member of Phi Tau Sigma and a Guest Fellow of New Zealand’s IFST. Joe has received the IUFoST Life-Time Achievement Award. He is co-founding editor emeritus of Food Bioscience, the first English language, peer-reviewed food science journal from China. Joe serves on the American Veterinary Medicine Association’s Humane Slaughter Guidelines Panel.
About
The Macy Award
The Macy Food Science & Technology Award, “Macy Award,” was established in 1981, and is given annually to recognize an outstanding example of food technology transfer or cooperation between scientists or technologists in any of the following settings: academic, government, and private industry. The purpose of the award is to advance the profession and practice of food technology and to honor Dr. Harold Macy, Dean Emeritus of the University of Minnesota and Founding Member of IFT. The award consists of a plaque, $2500 honorarium, and travel expenses.
Monday
April 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Schedule
- 6:00 – 6:55 PM
Networking with Heavy Appetizers and Refreshments - 6:55 –7:30 PM
Speaker and Macy Award Recipient – Dr. Muthu - 7:30 – 8:15 PM
Student Scholarship & MN Science Fair award winners & Phi Tau Sigma inductees - 8:15 PM
Closing Remarks
Fees
- Member
$35 (Early Bird)
$45 (After April 14) - Non-Member
$45 (Early Bird)
$55 (After April 14) - Emeritus
$10 (Early Bird)
$20 (After April 14) - Student
Free
Registration costs will include heavy appetizers and drinks.
High School and Middle School Student Science Fair award winners will also be able to bring up to two family members to attend. Please register them as additional students.