The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) announces that J. Daryl Tatum has been named the 2017 AMSA R. C. Pollock Award Winner. The R. C. Pollock Award is presented annually in honor of the first general manager of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. This award is sponsored by the AMSA Educational Foundation R. C. Pollock, Robert Bray, and Vern Cahill Mentor Recognition Funds. J. Daryl Tatum will be honored at an awards banquet during the AMSA 70th Reciprocal Meat Conference on Tuesday, June 20, in College Station, Texas.
Dr. Tatum received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees at Texas A&M University during the 1970s. He joined the Animal Sciences faculty at Colorado State University in 1979, after a brief appointment as an Assistant Professor of Animal Science at Texas Tech University. During his academic career, Dr. Tatum taught several classes, including his favorite – Live Animal and Carcass Evaluation, know to Colorado State University students simply as “Live and Dead.”