The Bor S. Luh International Award has been awarded every year since 1956. Before 2005, this award was named the International Award. It is given to an individual or institution that had outstanding efforts in one of the following areas in food technology: 1) International exchange of ideas, 2) better international understanding, and/or 3) practical successful technology transfer to an economically depressed area in a developed or developing area.
The award was renamed for Bor S. Luh (1916-2001), who was born and educated in China before completing his education in the United States. Luh was the first president of the Chinese American Food Society in 1974-5 and received its Professional Achievement Award in 1984.
Award winners receive a plaque from the Bor S. Luh Endowment Fund of the Institute of Food Technologists Foundation and a USD 3000 honorarium.
Winners YearWinner 1956 Robert S. Schull 1957 Laurence V. Burton 1958 Henri Cheftel 1959 Ross A. Chapman 1960 James R. Vickery 1961 Maynard A. Joslyn 1962 Lawrence J. Lynch 1963 Emil M. Mrak 1964 E.C. Bate-Smith 1965 Moritmer L. Anson 1966 George F. Stewart 1967 Zoltan I. Kertesz 1968 Max Milner 1969 Nevin S. Scrimshaw 1970 David B. Hand 1971 Alton Altschul 1972 Fritz H. Reuter 1973 Francis Aylward 1974 Hisateru Mitsuda 1975 Georg A. Borgstrom 1976 Clinton O. Chichester 1977 Joseph H. Hulse 1978 Stephan Bogyo 1979 John Hawthorn 1980 John C. Ayres 1981 Frode Bramsnaes 1982 Frederick Jack Francis 1983 Frank V. Kosikowski 1984 James Bunnell 1985 Keith H. Steinkraus 1986 Richard L. Hall 1987 Adolph (Al) S. Clausi 1988 R. Paul Singh 1989 Stephen S. Chang 1990 Judson M. Harper 1991 University of Georgia-Griffin & University of Nigeria 1992 Malcolm C. Bourne 1993 Jose Miguel Aguilera 1994 Alex Malaspina 1995 Daryl B. Lund 1996 Larry R. Beuchat 1997 Daniel Y.C. Fung 1998 Herbert W. Ockerman 1999 B. Ozuma Okezie 2000 Khee Choon Rhee 2001 Gustavo V. Barbosa-Canovas 2002 James H. Moy 2003 Poul Hansen 2004 Soliman Y.K. Shenouda 2005 INTSOY (International Soybean Program) 2006 Miguel A. Jimenez 2007 Manjeet S. Chinnan 2008 Bruce Hamaker 2009 Anna V.A. Resurreccion 2010 Syed S.H. Rizvi 2011 Dr. Gleyn Bledsoe 2012 Richard F. Stier 2013 George E. Inglett 2014 Theodore P. Labuza 2015 Joe Regenstein 2016 Jae Park 2017 Joseph Jen 2018 Kumar Mallikarjunan 2019 Joseph Jen 2020 Valente B. Alvarez 2021 Joseph Awika 2022 Melvin Pascall
References
List of past winners - Official site Information on Bor S. Luh