The Stephen S. Chang Award for Lipid or Flavor Science has been awarded every year since 1993. It is awarded to a member of 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) who has made significant contributions to lipid

Lipid

Lipids constitute a broad group of naturally occurring molecules that include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins , monoglycerides, diglycerides, triglycerides, phospholipids, and others...

 or flavor

Flavor

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 science. This award is named for Stephen S. Chang

Stephen S. Chang

Stephen S. Chang was a Chinese-born, American food scientist who was involved in the research of lipid and flavors in food, including the development of technology transfer between the United States and Taiwan.-Early career:...

 (1918-1996), a Chinese

China

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-born food scientist

Food science

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 who later became a 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"...

 professor at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 in New Brunswick, New Jersey

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 specializing in lipid and flavor research. It was the second IFT award to be named for a living person.

Award winners receive a USD 3000 honorarium

Honorarium

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 and a Steuben crystal from the Stephen S. Chang Endowment Fund supported by the Taiwan Food Industries (SSC).

Winners

Year	Winner
1993	Edward G. Perkins
1994	Gary A. Reineccius
1995	David B. Min
1996	Wassef W. Nawar
1997	John M. deMan
1998	Robert C. Lindsay
1999	W. James Harper
2000	Terry C. Acree
2001	Michael M. Blumenthal
2002	Chi-Tang Ho Chi-tang ho Chi-Tang Ho is a Chinese-born American food scientist. He received his PhD in organic chemistry in 1974 and immediately started working professionally as a researcher and professor in the food science department at Rutgers University. He is now director of the food science graduate program at...
2003	Gary R. List
2004	Herbert O. Hultin
2005	Fereidoon Shahidi
2006	Eric A. Decker
2007	Keith R. Cadwallader
2008	Casimir C. Akoh
2009	Pamela White Pamela White Pamela L. White is an American diplomat. In November 2010, White was named United States Ambassador to The Gambia by President Barack Obama. She is the second Maine woman to serve as a United States ambassador, with the first being Margaret Joy Tibbetts.-Education and early life:White was born in...
2010	Cameron Faustman