Kathryn J. Boor is Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Dr. Boor served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Food Science at Cornell University (2007-2010). Dr. Boor earned a BS in Food Science from Cornell University and an MS in Food Science from the University of Wisconsin. She conducted research for two years in Kenya, East Africa, as a member of a multi-disciplinary team working with small-scale farmers to enhance sustainable and safe goat milk production and preservation systems, then earned her PhD in Microbiology in 1994 at the University of California, Davis. She established the Food Safety Laboratory as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University in 1994. Presently, research in her laboratory is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the United States Department of Agriculture and the New York State Milk Promotion Advisory Board. Dr. Boor serves on the editorial boards for Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. She is scientific advisor for the New York State Cheese ManufacturersÕ Association and past president of the New York State Association for Food Protection. She served on the National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine Committee on Review of the Use of Scientific Criteria and Performance Standards for Safe Food (December 2001- May 2003) and the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods. She received the 2000 USDA Honor Award as a member of the Listeria Outbreak Working Group, the 2000 Foundation Scholar Award and the 2006 DeLaval Award for Dairy Extension programming, both from the American Dairy Science Association, and the 2002 Samuel Cate Prescott award for outstanding research from the Institute of Food Technologists. Dr. Boor is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the International Academy of Food Science and Technology and the Institute of Food Technologists.