Thompson selected animal and food sciences' interim chairman
Leslie Thompson was named the new interim chairman May 12 of Texas Tech University's Department of Animal and Food Sciences, according to officials with the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resource.
Thompson, who currently serves as a professor and associate department chairman with the CASNR department, has focused her research efforts on processing effects on the microbiological quality, safety, sensory and nutritional properties of foods.
Classroom Duties. Her classroom duties have included teaching courses in food chemistry, chemical and instrumental analysis of agriculture products, processing oilseeds and cereal grains, topics in food technology, and food sanitation management.
Thompson joined Texas Tech's faculty in 1994 as a visiting assistant professor of food technology and was named associate department chairman in 2001 and professor of food science last year. Prior to coming to Tech, she was a research/teaching assistant and resident assistant farm manager with the University of Florida's Department of Poultry Science.
Award Winner. Awards for Thompson include Who's Who Among American Teachers, 2004 and 2005, TTU Teaching Academy, 2004, Texas Tech Teaching Academy, 2004, and North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teaching Award of Merit, 2003.
Other honors are Texas Tech University President's Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Teacher of the Semester, Fall 2002, and National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teaching Fellow Award, 1999.
Thompson earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture-poultry science and a master's degree in poultry products technology from University of Florida-Gainesville. She received her doctorate degree in food science and human nutrition from the University of Florida-Gainesville.
Written by Norman Martin
CONTACT: Leslie Thompson, interim chairman/professor - food science and safety, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Texas Tech University, at (806) 742-2805 ext. 224 or leslie.thompson@ttu.edu
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