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AOCS Protein and Co-Products Division
Newsletter April 2008

Message from the Secretary/Treasurer
Phil Kerr

The 2008 Annual Meeting is approaching rapidly and, as Keshun has mentioned in his article, promises to be a great opportunity to foster ongoing education and career development for the PCP Division membership. I encourage you to take every opportunity to attend the technical and poster sessions as well as any tours or short courses that are of professional interest to you.

2008 Annual ADM Award

It is my great pleasure to announce the winners of the PCP Division's awards for outstanding technical contributions to AOCS publications. As a division, we again thank the Archer Daniels Midland Co. for their support of the awards. As in years past, awards are made for outstanding contributions in two technical categories: Chemistry/Nutrition and Engineering/Technology. Before I announce the awards, I wanted to give you a brief reminder of the process that we used to make the selections and final awards. Manuscripts and articles from AOCS journals (e.g., JAOCS) and trade magazines (e.g., inform) are eligible for consideration. Between the two categories, nine nominated contributions from 2007 issues were selected for consideration based on their overall quality, timeliness, significance, and validity of experimental design and methods.

To make the final selection, a jury of AOCS volunteers from the academic, government, and industry sectors of our division was chosen to review all of the nominations and rank them for their technical excellence. As secretary/treasurer, it is my responsibility to tabulate the votes and communicate the results to the PCP Division chair, AOCS, and the editor of JAOCS. The winners are then sent letters of notification and encouraged to attend the PCP Division dinner as it is at this event that the winners will receive formal recognition of their award in front of their colleagues by our division chair.

On behalf of the AOCS Protein & Co-Products Division, it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 2008 ADM Award:

1. Nutrition/Chemistry: Boon-Seang Chu, Sosaku Ichikawa, Sumiyo Kanafusa and Mitsutoshi Nakajima. "Preparation of Protein-Stabilized Nanodispersions by Emulsification-Evaporation Method," November 2007, JAOCS, 84:1053-1062
2. Engineering/Technology: Nicolas Deak, Patricia Murphy, and Lawrence Johnson. "Characterization of Fractionated Soy Proteins Produced by a New Simplified Procedure," February 2007, JAOCS, 84:137-149.

The two winning manuscripts will be published in our division newsletter, beginning with the Nutrition / Chemistry winner in this issue (this is available only to division members—you may access the complete paper by following the link from the email newsletter). The Engineering / Technology winner will be published in the next issue.

Please take time to congratulate the winners. On behalf of the PCP Division board, I also want to express my thanks for all the ADM Award jurors for the time they devoted to the award's review process.

The Protein & Co-Product Division welcomes the following new members:

Keith Bailey
Inland Empire Oilseeds LLC
USA

Richard H. Barton
N Hunt Moore & Assocs
USA

Cindy Bower
USDA
USA

Rita M. Delrue
Cargill/Cerestar
Belgium

Tanya Der
University of Saskatchewan
Canada

Jeffrey D. Hooker
Phylein Inc
USA

Isabel Hua
University of Saskatchwan
China

Hisham Ibrahim
Kagoshima University
Japan

Hamid Joraty
Shaddasht
Canada

Mohamed Ahmed Khan
Cevena Bioproducts Inc
Canada

Eunice Li-Chan
University of British Columbia
Canada

Christos Michas
LevCot SA
Greece

Kristof R. Reiter
Reiter Scientific Consulting
USA

Kenji Sato
Kyoto Prefectural University
Japan

Carlos E. Soza Barrundia
Inland Empire Oilseeds LLC
USA

Chibuike C. Udenigwe
University of Manitoba
Canada

Alexis Udovenko
Ilyichevsk Oils & Fats Indus Complex
Ukraine

Hui Wang
Iowa State University
USA

Rosie G. Weiss
Monsanto Co
USA

Jianping Wu
University of Alberta
Canada

Finally, I again want to emphasize that our Protein & Co-Products Division is in sound financial shape with a current balance of $23,843.56. We welcome suggestions for how the division would like to utilize some of these monies to further our mission within AOCS. Feel free to send them to me at pkerr@solae.com or make the effort to contact me at the upcoming meeting in Seattle.

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Also in this newsletter:

Message from the Chair, by Keshun Liu

NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center Tour

Candidates for the 2008 Elections of the Officers of Protein & Co-Products Division

Preparation of Protein-Stabilized β-Carotene Nanodispersions by Emulsification-Evaporation Method by Boon-Seang Chu, Sosaku Ichikawa, Sumiyo Kanafusa, and Mitsutoshi Nakajima

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