Tong named president of American Dairy Science Association
Phillip Tong, director of the Cal Poly Dairy Products Technology Center in San Luis Obispo, Calif., was recently sworn in as the 93rd president of the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) during the organization’s joint annual meeting in Montreal.
“As incoming president, I hope to continue to move the ADSA in directions that will reinforce its role as the leading scientific organization in dairy science for the benefit of consumers, industry, government, academia, other allied groups, and the ADSA membership,” stated Tong. “I plan to build on the efforts of my predecessors with the tremendous dedicated ADSA staff, other elected ADSA representatives and member volunteers to launch new efforts to meet new developments, opportunities and challenges facing this 103-year-old institution. Our core values of ‘objectivity, integrity, open-mindedness, inclusiveness and commitment’ remain unchanged and continue to guide ADSA as we set goals to evolve and stay at the cutting edge in scientific discovery and product/technology innovation.”
His goals include expanding the reach and impact of the Journal of Dairy Science to the global dairy science community, boosting the content and attendance of the annual scientific meeting to continue its reputation as the premier source for dairy science information, and launching new initiatives that tap technology to enhance the organization’s ability to reach larger numbers of people in the United States and throughout the world, involved in milk and dairy foods from farm to table.
As a former student and now a professor, Tong also recognizes the importance of student involvement in the growth of ADSA, both in membership as well as in grooming future leaders. He plans to engage the student population through the Student Affiliate Division (SAD) and identify other avenues to attract more students with interests in dairy animal science and dairy food science and related disciplines into ADSA.
Membership in ADSA has grown from the original 19 charter members in 1906 to over 4,000 individual members (professional, sustaining [corporate], post-doctoral students, graduate students, undergraduate students and life members) and institutional members. ADSA has three divisions: Dairy Foods, Production, and the SAD. The ADSA publication, The Journal of Dairy Science is the top-ranked dairy research journal in the world.
For more information about the ADSA, visit www.adsa.org. The 2010 ADSA annual meeting will be held July 11-15, 2010, in Denver, Colorado.
