ISU Alum to Speak on Serving Humanity Through Food Science

AMES, Iowa — Alex Buchanan, international food technologist and Iowa State University alumnus will present "Food Science and Humanitarianism" on April 21. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 8 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union on Iowa State campus. It is sponsored by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, the ISU Committee on Lectures (funded by the Government of the Student Body) and the Midwest Dairy Association. Buchanan has developed such products as infant foods and high-protein biscuits for use in developing countries and disaster relief. He is a former executive director of the Crawford Fund, a division of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering that promotes sustainable global food production through technology and research. For more than a decade he managed food research projects for the ASEAN-Australia Economic Corp. He is a consultant editor at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He was named a member of the Order of Australia for his research supporting aid programs in Southeast Asia and received the Rotary Foundation Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award in 2009. He received his master's degree in dairy bacteriology and agricultural economics from Iowa State University in 1960 and a doctorate in biochemistry at the University of London.