TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Kristi Crowe-White, assistant professor in The University of Alabama’s College of Human and Environmental Sciences, has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the HES Leadership Board Excellence in Scholarly Research Award.
Since Crowe-White’s 2010 appointment as assistant professor at UA, she has published some 15 papers in refereed journals in the field of food science and nutrition and given numerous, peer-reviewed oral and poster presentations at national conferences.
Crowe-White’s research agenda focuses on evaluating bioactive food compounds, particularly those with antioxidant properties, in order to assess the impact of food production and processing on their retention and bioactivity and to address health care issues through nutrition.
She has received significant federal and industry grant funding and has worked on high impact projects, such as measuring toxicants responsible for fish kill in the British Petroleum Company’s Deep Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
She has developed inter-departmental contacts and research partnerships with various universities and is known for involving undergraduates in many of her research projects.
In addition to numerous professional memberships and her competitive appointments to the editorial board of the Journal of Human Nutrition and Food Science and the evidence-based practice committee for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, she is the chair of the UA Institutional Biological Safety Committee.
Crowe-White earned her bachelor’s degree in nutrition at Samford University and her master’s and doctoral degrees in food science and nutrition from the University of Maine.
Contact
Kim Eaton, UA media relations, 205/348-8325, kkeaton@ur.ua.edu