ACS Kenneth A. Spencer Award

ACS KENNETH A SPENCER AWARD DR. JERRY W. KING

The Kenneth A. Spencer Award of the American Chemical Society was recently awarded to Dr. Jerry King for outstanding achievement in agricultural and food chemistry. Dr. Jerry King, CFS – formerly of the University of Arkansas, is receiving the 2020 Spencer Award. The award is given by the Kansas City Section of the ACS. Dr. King is being recognized for specifically his contributions in applying sub- and su-

percritical fluids for chemical separations –both in processing as well as the analysis foods and natural products. He presented a lecture entitled, “A Multidisciplinary Journey through Agricultural and Food Chemistry” at ACS’s Fall National Meeting in San

Francisco, and later at award banquet held in his honor in the Kansas City area by the local ACS section.

Dr. King has over 55 years of experience in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering and food technology. His research has been conducted in government (USDA), industrial, academic, and as a consultant (CFS). Dr. King has published over 275 papers/ proceedings including government reports and 3 patents. These activities have promoted environmentally-sustainability and have resulted in a number of consumer-friendly products. The roadmap to these developments have included many collaborations both nationally and internationally - liaisons with researchers/institutions in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, including the USAregulatory agencies of FDA, FSIS, FGIS, and EPA. A major emphasis over this time period has been creating value-added by-products from agriculturally-derived processing wastes such as grape/berry pomaces, deodorizer distillates, expeller-derived residues, and wood wastes, as well as “green’ laboratory and analytical methodologies. Previously he has been awarded AOAC’s Harvey Wiley Award in 1997 for his research in analytical SFE. In 1998, he received the Award of Excellence at the 8th International Symposium on SFC/SFC for “pioneering achievement, leadership, and enthusiasm in the development of supercritical fluid technology and the education of others”. He was awarded an Underwood Fellowship in 1999 for sabbatical study in the United Kingdom,

and in the following year, he received the Keene P. Dimick Award at Pittcon for his contributions in the fields of gas and superWestern Diet Con’t from Page 8 critical fluid chromatography. He also has been awarded the Herbert J. Dutton Award searchers acknowledge, remains to be deterfrom the American Oil Chemists’ Society for mined. his contributions to the analysis and processing of lipids and oils. He was selected The authors acknowledge funding from for a Marie Curie Chair by the European the Swedish Research Council, the European Union in Brussels, Belgium in 2004. In Foundation for the Study of Diabetes/Sonofi 2007 he was the Outstanding Researcher in European Diabetes Research Programme in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Macrovascular Complications, the Swedish the University of Arkansas. In 2008 he was Heart-Lung Foundation, Diabetesfondthe Mariwala Visiting Professorship at UICT in Mumbai, India. In May 2012, he was elected a fellow of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, and in 2013, elected as a Fellow of the Industrial & Engineering Division en, Svensk Fӧrening fӧr Diabetologi, Karolinska Institutets Stiftelser och Fonder, STROKE Riksfӧrbundet, Stiftelsen fӧr Gamla Tjӓnarinnor and the regional agreement on medical training and clinical research (ALF) between Stockholm County of the American Chemical Society. In 2015, Council and the Karolinska Institutet. Dr. King was appointed to a Visiting Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Alberta. In 2018, he was the Chairman of the Separation Science & Technology a SubDivision of the ACS, and more recently served as the co-Program Chair for the ACS sub-division on Cannabis Chemistry.