The Myron Solberg Award has been awarded every year since 2004 by the Institute of Food Technologists

Institute of Food Technologists

The Institute of Food Technologists or IFT is an international, non-profit professional organization for the advancement of food science and technology. It is the largest of food science organizations in the world, encompassing 22,000 members worldwide as of 2006. It is referred to as "THE Society...

 (IFT). It is awarded for leadership in establishing, successfully developing, and continuing a cooperative organization involving academia

Academia

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, government

Government

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, and industry

Industry

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. The award is named for Myron Solberg

Myron Solberg

Myron "Mike" Solberg was an American food scientist who was renowned for his collaboration with academia, government, and industry that better advanced food technology.-Education:...

 (1930-2001), a food science

Food science

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 professor at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 who founded the Center for Advanced Food Technology in 1984 and headed the center until his 2000 retirement.

Award winners received a USD 3000 honorarium

Honorarium

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 and a plaque from the Myron Solberg Endowment Fund of the IFT Foundation.

Winners

Year	Winner
2004	W. Steven Otwell
2005	C. Patrick Dunne
2006	Richard H. Linton
2007	John B. Luchansky
2008	Ken Swartzel
2009	George J. Flick, Jr.
2010	Award not given