CORNELL
U N I V E R S I T Y

Terry Edward Acree
Born: Aug. 6, 1940 - West Hamlin, West Virginia.

Cornell University
P.O. Box 426
Geneva, NY 14456
315-787-2240 		(Home)
156 North Brook Street
Geneva, NY 14456
315-789-1228
Education:

  • B. A. , 1963 University of California-Berkeley (Biochemistry)
  • M. S., 1966 Cornell University (Biochemistry)
  • Ph.D., 1968 Cornell University (Biochemistry/Physical Organic Chemistry)
Current Appointment:

    1981 - present, Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Food Science and Technology, Cornell University, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York 14456.
Fields of Specialization:
    Flavor Chemistry, Natural product Chemistry and the Chemistry of Taste and Smell.
Previous Positions:
    Associate Professor, Cornell, 1974-1981
    Assistant Professor, Cornell, 1968-1974
    Research Assistant, Cornell, 1963-1968
    Laboratory Assistant, USDA Berkeley, 1961-1963

Other Assignments:

    1991 Winrock Foundation - USAID consultancy to India. Fruit and vegetable quality assessment at the Hesseragatta Research Center.
    1982-1983 National Crop Protection Center, University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Philippines Designed a laboratory for the University of the Philippines to house a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer - data system and other chromatographic equipment.

Honors
    1999 ACS Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division Fellow.
    1983 Kyoto University Seventieth Anniversary Foundation Award. College of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan isolated and characterized kairomones and pheromone from fruit and plant pests.
    1972-1973 Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Estudos de Vitivinicolas, Dois Portos, Portugal. Studied wine flavor analysis.

Publications:
    Refereed - Journals: 100, Contributed Chapters: 30, Book: 2
    Published Abstracts: 60, Patents: 1, Editorial, etc.: 18.
Affiliations:
    Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science
    American Society Enology Eastern Section
    Institute of Food Technologists
    American Chemical Society (ACS)
    Chairman of the Flavor Subdivision of ACS 1983
    Chairman of the Agricultural & Food Chemistry Division, 1989-90
    Member 1981-92 executive committee of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division
    Organizer of the 1984, 1994, 1999, Flavor Work Shop for ACS
    Member of Editorial Board of J. Agric. Food Chem. 1983-89, 1995-.
    US Editor of Flavour and Fragrance Journal
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