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AACC Announces 2004 Award Winners

St. Paul, Minn. (September 9, 2004) — The American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2004 honorary awards. The awards will be given at AACC’s annual meeting, held jointly with the Tortilla Industry Association (TIA) this year, in San Diego, California, September 19-22, 2004. This year’s award recipients include:

Bruce Stone is the recipient of the 2004 Thomas Burr Osborne Medal. Established in 1928, the medal is given in recognition of distinguished contributions in the field of cereal chemistry. Recipients of the medal are accorded the status of AACC Fellow. Stone is an emeritus professor of biochemistry at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia and has been an AACC member since 1985.

Sergio O. Serna-Saldivar is the recipient of the 2004 AACC Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is presented to an AACC member and current teacher who has made significant contributions through teaching in the broad field of cereal science and technology. Serna-Saldivar is a professor and head of the Food Science and Technology Department at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.

Charles Gaines and Ken Preston have been named AACC Fellows, a distinction given in recognition of a member’s outstanding contribution to cereal science and technology. The award honors achievements in research, industry, leadership, education, administration, communication, or regulatory affairs. Gaines is the director and research leader of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Soft Wheat Quality Laboratory, Wooster, Ohio, where he has served since 1979. Preston is a research scientist at the Grain Research Laboratory, Canadian Grain Commission, in Winnipeg, Canada.

In addition to these awards, AACC will announce the winner of the William F. Geddes Memorial Award during the Award Ceremony at the Joint AACC/TIA Annual Meeting on September 19-22, 2004.

AACC is an international organization of 3,000 professionals who contribute to the research, development, and processing of grains and grain-based products.

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