The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) announces that Dr. Floyd McKeith has been named the 2019 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 Development Council R.C. Pollock, Robert Bray, and Vern Cahill Mentor Recognition Funds. Dr. McKeith will be honored at an awards banquet on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 during the AMSA 72nd Reciprocal Meat Conference in Loveland, Colorado.
Dr. McKeith joined the Animal Sciences faculty at the University of Illinois in October 1981, with a split appointment of 25% teaching, 25% research, and 50% extension. Dr. McKeith is one of the world’s most influential scientists in the field of meat science. He grew up in Reed Point, Montana and in 1977 received his undergraduate degree from Washington State University. He earned a master’s degree (1979) and PhD (1982) in animal sciences from Texas A&M University and joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1981 before defending his doctorate.