Food Science and Humanitarianism
Alex Buchanan
Wednesday, 21 Apr 2010 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Alex Buchanan is a food scientist who has developed such products as infant foods and high-protein biscuits for use in developing countries and disaster relief. He is a former executive director of the Crawford Fund, a division of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering that promotes technological expertise and agricultural research to increase sustainable global food production. For over a decade he managed food research projects for the ASEAN-Australia Economic Corporation. Buchanan was named a member of the Order of Australia for his research supporting aid programs in the South East Asia region, and is the 2008-09 recipient of the Rotary Foundation Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award. He earned his MS from Iowa State in dairy bacteriology and agricultural economics and a PhD in biochemistry at the University of London. He is currently a consultant editor at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.Cosponsored By:
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Food Science and Human Nutrition
- Midwest Dairy Association
- Rotary Club of Ames
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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