ADSA Centennial - Celebrating a Century of Achievements

The American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) will celebrate its 100th birthday during the annual meeting at Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2006. For this centennial year meeting one goal is to highlight the many contributions that have been made to improve milk production, efficiency of production, and quality of nutritious dairy foods provided for consumers. Our ADSA Exhibit and Publicity Committee is encouraging Departments of Dairy Science, Animal Science and Food Science and government institutions in the United States and Canada as well as ADSA Sustaining Members to highlight contributions they have made to these scientific advancements. Our committee is asking each university, government institution, and sustaining member of ADSA to provide a poster related to dairy production and (or) a poster related to dairy foods that describes their contributions as they relate to the missions of teaching, research, extension, and outreach to the dairy industry and ADSA. Please emphasize the contributions that have been made at your institution/organization during the 100 years from 1906 to 2006. This is your opportunity to showcase your history, accomplishments, and contributions.

For the 2006 Centennial meeting our committee asks that an abstract be submitted for each poster that is prepared and that a copy of the poster be brought to the meeting in Minnesota for display. Posters will be exhibited throughout the meeting. We will also display your poster on the ADSA Centennial website so we ask that you upload your poster through the website listed below. In addition, please upload a logo of your company, university, or group so that we can include it with your poster.

Contact web@assochq.org if you have trouble uploading the files or if you have questions about the instructions or specifications.

100 Years of Dairy Science at the University of Illinois
J Clark*, J Baltz; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

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Faculty from the University of Illinois are noted for their service to the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA). The ADSA was organized July 17, 1906, at the University of Illinois. W.J. Fraser, Instructor of Dairying, who was later hailed as the "Father" of ADSA called the first meeting to order. Five faculty members (H.A. Ruehe, 1936; P.H. Tracy, 1948; J.R. Campbell, 1981; J.H. Clark, 1993; M.F. Hutjens, 2005) have served as President of ADSA. The University of Illinois has a long history of research, teaching, and public service programs that have benefitted the dairy industry. Research began on milk production and composition in 1870. W.J. Fraser was hired in 1896 as the first full-time Instructor of Dairying and the Department of Dairy Husbandry was established in 1902. Pioneering research on dairy cattle biochemistry, genetics, management, microbiology, nutrition, and physiology has had a global impact on understanding synthesis and secretion of milk, inheritance of production and other genetic traits, ruminal fermentation, requirements and supply of nutrients, reproduction and artificial insemination, and automation of dairy farms. Everything from hands-on-teaching to the first dairy science class ever taught over the internet has been used to train future leaders of the dairy industry and ADSA. Former students now hold prestigious positions in universities and industry and are establishing excellent records of achievement in research, teaching, and service to the dairy industry. University of Illinois faculty members have been instrumental in establishing mechanisms to provide up-to-date information to dairy producers. Faculty members were leaders in establishing the Dairy Herd Improvement Association, the Weigh-A-Day-A-Month Plan, and the National Dairy Data Base that have had a national impact on the dairy industry. Because of their contributions faculty and students have been recipients of 46 National ADSA Awards, numerous awards from other organizations, and four faculty members (G.W. Salisbury, C.R. Henderson, M.P. Bryant, D.E. Bauman) have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences.