Kathryn Boor

Kathryn Boor was born and brought up on a family-owned dairy farm in Chemung County in upstate New York. She obtained a BS in Food Science from Cornell University in 1980, and an MS in Food Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. She then worked in Kenya with limited-resource farmers for Winrock International, before coming back to the US to pursue a PhD in Microbiology at the University of California, Davis, from where she graduated in 1994.[2]

Dr Boor returned to Cornell University in 1994 as the first woman Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science. She established the Food Safety Laboratory. Her research focuses on identifying biological factors that affect the transmission of bacteria in food systems. A newly discovered bacteria was named Listeria booriae to honor her work on Listeria monocytogenes, a food-borne pathogen.[3] She was appointed as dean in 2010.[4]

• 2000 USDA Honor Award as a member of the Listeria Outbreak Working Group
• 2000 Foundation Scholar Award from the American Dairy Science Association
• 2006 DeLaval Dairy Extension Award from the American Dairy Science Association
• 2002 Samuel Cate Prescott award for outstanding research from the Institute of Food Technologists
• Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
• Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology
• Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Honorary Doctorate from Harper Adams University in the United Kingdom in 2016 [5]
• 2018 Woman of Distinction by New York Senate [6]

• Cornell CALS College Leadership