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311 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine 1965, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His curiosity of food engineering blossomed from there. After receiving his PhD, Dr. Labuza began teaching as an assistant and then associate professor at MIT between 1965 and 1971. For two years, he was an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and then became a professor of food science and technology in 1973, which he still teaches today. From 1993 to 1996, he served as associate dean of the university’s graduate school, and in 1983, he was named a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Food Science and Engineering. Most recently, Dr. Labuza was the recipient of the Gilbert Leveille Lecturer Award in 2015. Among his numerous other accolades and recognitions, Dr. Labuza’s career highlights have been the relationships he has developed within the food engineering industry. Dr. Labuza, alongside his advisor and an international group of people, created an important food that had all the implications of quality shelf life called “Water Activity.” It was an important principle that solved myriad scientific questions that he had been working on for many years. Dr. Labuza’s research over the past seven years has been supported by grants from the Department of Homeland Security through the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, as well as the U.S. Center of Excellence and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. A worldwide lecturer, Dr. Labuza has delivered presentations as a keynote speaker in Switzerland and China. He was also an honorary visiting scientist at Jiangnan University in China in 2011. Additionally, he has more than 500 published works, has been cited more than 2,000 times and has been the most highly cited scientist for the past two decades in agriculture and food science. D r. Theodore P. Labuza has always been intrigued by nuclear physics, so much so that he built a laboratory in the basement of his family home. His father worked at the New Jersey Power Gas and Electric Company, and this influence triggered his interest in nuclear engineering. Dr. Labuza received a BA in 1962 and a PhD in THEODORE P. LABUZA, PHD RESEARCHER, EDUCATOR University of Minnesota Saint Paul, MN SCIENCES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY