About

Dr. Regenstein is a Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Head of the Cornell University Kosher and Halal Food Initiative (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, CALS), and Adjunct Professor in Veterinary Medicine and Jewish Studies (Arts and Sciences). He is an Adjunct Professor of Food Science at both Kansas State University and Chiang Mai University in Thailand. He is a Distinguished Foreign Expert at Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China. His B.A. and M.S. are from Cornell and his Ph.D. in Biophysics is from Brandeis University. Dr. Regenstein has received two awards from CALS’: Efforts to Promote Multicultural Diversity and Outstanding Accomplishments in Science and Public Policy and has received IFT’s Elizabeth Stier Humanitarian, Bor-Luh International and Carl Feller’s Career Service Awards (joint with Phi Tau Sigma). He co-founded and edited IFT’s Religious and Ethnic Foods Division newsletter for many years. An IFT Fellow, Dr. Regenstein served on IFT’s Executive Committee and was IFT’s first Congressional Science Fellow. He is a lifetime member of Phi Tau Sigma (the food science honorary society) and a Guest Fellow of New Zealand’s IFST. Dr. Regenstein is co-editor emeritus of Food Bioscience (and founding co-editor), the first English peer-reviewed Chinese food science journal. He served on the Food Market Institute’s (trade association of the supermarkets) Animal Welfare Technical Committee and serves with Dr. Temple Grandin and others on the American Veterinary Medicine Association’s Humane Slaughter Guidelines Panel, with his work focused on the religious slaughter of animals. He is also currently involved with a team trying to build the first greenfield large-scale kosher slaughterhouse and has also been working with ultrasound to determine lung health in live animals.