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Kathryn Boor
Kathryn J. Boor is an American food scientist and academic administrator. She is the dean of Cornell University Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education.[1] Previously she served as the Ronald P Lynch Dean of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).[2] Early lifeBoor was born and raised on a family-owned dairy farm in Chemung County in upstate New York. She obtained a BS in Food Science from Cornell University CALS in 1980, and an MS in Food Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. Her MS research with Winrock International in Kenya focused on improving human nutrition among limited-resource farmers. She returned to the US and earned a PhD in Microbiology at the University of California, Davis in 1994.[3] CareerBoor returned to Cornell University in 1994 and became the first tenured female Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science. She established the Food Safety Laboratory and was co-lead for the Milk Quality Improvement Program.[1] Her research focuses on identifying biological factors that affect the transmission of bacteria in food systems. A newly discovered bacterium was named Listeria booriae to honor her work on Listeria monocytogenes, a food-borne pathogen.[4] She was appointed as the Ronald P. Lynch Dean in 2010.[5] As of 2023, her h-index was 84 and her work had been cited over 19,500 times.[6] Awards and honors
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