Dr. Bob Cousins Selected W.O. Atwater Lecturer
Dr. Bob Cousins (Professor, Eminent
Scholar, Director of the Center for
Nutritional Sciences) was selected as the
2011 W. O. Atwater Lecturer by the
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service
(ARS). This lectureship program was
established by ARS in 1968 to recognize
scientists whose exceptional research has
helped improve the nutritional status of
people around the world. At a ceremony last year, Dr. Cousins
received an honorarium of $2,000, a medallion, a wall plaque,
and expenses to present a lecture on a policy issue or scientific
trend of his choice at Experimental Biology in Washington DC
this April. The lecture was entitled: “Driving from Vitamin A to
Zinc during the Genomics Revolution.”
