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Champaign, IL (June 1, 2023)—The American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA) is pleased to announce Emad Yuzbashian as the 2023 recipient of the ADSA Foundation Graduate Student Literature Review Award: Dairy Foods Division (PhD). The award will be presented on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, during the awards ceremony at the ADSA Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The ADSA Foundation Graduate Student Literature Review Award: Dairy Foods Division (PhD) was created to recognize graduate students who have composed in-depth and extensive literature reviews in their thesis or dissertation and allow for these papers to be published in the Journal of Dairy Science® as review papers, making them available as references for citations in original research papers. The winner must be a graduate student (or within six months of graduation) at the time of the article submission to the Journal of Dairy Science. The article must be no more than 30 double-spaced pages, including references and graphs, have no more than 75 references, and be focused on a topic in dairy science.
Emad Yuzbashian is a PhD candidate in nutrition at the University of Alberta with a research focus on understanding the health benefits of dairy products in the context of metabolic disorders. He earned a BS and MS in nutrition from universities in Iran, where he participated in various research projects. Yuzbashian’s current PhD research investigates the effects of dairy on lipid and glucose metabolism in an obese mouse model. He received an Alberta Diabetes Institute/Helmholtz Research School for Diabetes Scholarship and will conduct research at the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity in Germany. Yuzbashian has published more than 50 articles, received awards, and is an active member of ADSA. His goal is to become a professor.
It is with great pleasure that ADSA and the ADSA Foundation present Emad Yuzbashian with the 2023 ADSA Foundation Graduate Student Literature Review Award: Dairy Foods Division (PhD).
About the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA)
The American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) is an international organization of educators, scientists, and industry representatives who are committed to advancing the dairy industry and keenly aware of the vital role the dairy sciences play in fulfilling the economic, nutritive, and health requirements of the world’s population. It provides leadership in scientific and technical support to sustain and grow the global dairy industry through generation, dissemination, and exchange of information and services. Together, ADSA members have discovered new methods and technologies that have revolutionized the dairy industry. www.adsa.org