The William V. Cruess Award has been awarded every year since 1970. It is awarded for excellence in teaching in food science

Food science

Food science is a study concerned with all technical aspects of foods, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption, an ideology commonly referred to as "from field to fork"...

 and technology

Food technology

Food technology, is a branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.-Early history of food technology:...

 and is the only award in which student members in 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) can nominate. This award is named after William V. Cruess (1886-1968), a food science professor at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 and later at the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

 who was also the first ever IFT Award winner when he won the Nicholas Appert Award

Nicholas Appert Award

The Nicholas Appert Award has been awarded every year since 1942 by the Chicago Section of the Institute of Food Technologists. Given for lifetime and consistent achievement in food technology, it is named after Nicolas Appert, the French inventor of airtight food preservation. Award winners...

 in 1942.

Award winners receive a bronze medal showing a side view of Cruess from the Northern California Section of IFT and a USD 3000 honorarium

Honorarium

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 from the IFT office in Chicago, Illinois.

Winners

Year	Winner
1970	Marcus Karel
1971	Clifford A. Samuels
1972	Edward E. Burns
1973	John R. Whitaker
1974	Elizabeth F. Stier
1975	Charles M. Stine
1976	Fergus M. Clydesdale
1977	Rose Marie Pangborn Rose Marie Pangborn Rose Marie Pangborn was an American scientist, born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was a pioneer in the sensory analysis of food.-Education:Professor Pangborn earned a B.S. at New Mexico State University and a M.S...
1978	Owen R. Fennema
1979	Theodore P. Labuza
1980	Roy G. Arnold
1981	Richard L. Merson
1982	John J. Powers John J. Powers (food scientist) Dr. John J. Powers, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Food Science.Dr. Powers was instrumental in the development of the Department of Food Science and Technology into an internationally recognized program at the University of Georgia. He served as the president of the The Institute of Food...
1983	James L. Oblinger
1984	C. Anthon Ernstrom
1985	Norman N. Potter
1986	John W. Erdman, Jr.
1987	J. Ian Gray
1988	Mark A. Ubersax
1989	Howard A. Morris
1990	James W. Berry
1991	Paul A. Lachance
1992	Daniel E. Carroll, Jr.
1993	Michael E. Mangino
1994	Peggy M. Foegeding
1995	John B. Allred
1996	Grady W. Chism III
1997	Faye M. Dong
1998	Richard W. Hartel
1999	Karen M. Schaich
2000	Richard D. Ludescher
2001	Shelly J. Schmidt
2002	S. Suzanne Nielsen
2003	John Rupnow
2004	Wayne T. Iwaoka
2005	Brian E. Farkas
2006	Robert L. Shewfelt
2007	Ronald E. Wrolstad
2008	Stephanie Doores
2009	Mukund Karwe
2010	E. Allen Foegeding
2011	Jeff Culbertson