AMSA has announced Drs. Thu Dinh, Mahesh Nair, and Tracy Scheffler are the 2021 AMSA Achievement Award recipients. The Achievement Award was established in 1992 and is designed to recognize and foster young professional AMSA members who have demonstrated significant skills and contribution to the animal products industry and is sponsored by Burke Corporation. Dinh, Nair, and Scheffler are being honored during the 74th AMSA Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) awards presentation on August 17, 2021, in Reno, Nevada, hosted by the University of Nevada – Reno.
Thu Dinh
Dr. Thu Dinh is an Associate Professor of Meat Science in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at Mississippi State University. He directs a nationally recognized program on meat quality and safety. With a “no one does research alone” mindset, Dinh has collaborated extensively with faculty across the nation on over $2 million in grant-funded projects.