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NOW PUBLISHED: Kathryn Boor

= Kathryn J Boor = Kathryn J Boor is an American food scientist and academic administrator. She is the Ronald P Lynch Dean of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Early Life
Kathryn Boor was born and brought up on a family-owned dairy farm in Chemung County in upstate New York. She obtained a BS in Food Science from Cornell University in 1980, and an MS in Food Science from Wisconsin University in 1983. Then she worked in Kenya with limited-resource farmers for Winrock International, before coming back to the US to pursue a PhD in Microbiology at the University of California, Davis, from where she graduated in 1994.

Career
Dr Boor returned to Cornell University in 1994 as the first woman Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science. She established the Food Safety Laboratory. Her research focuses on identifying biological factors that affect the transmission of bacteria in food systems. A newly discovered bacteria was named Listeria booriae to honor her work on Listeria monocytogenes, a food-borne pathogen.

Awards and Honors

 * 2000 USDA Honor Award as a member of the Listeria Outbreak Working Group
 * 2000 Foundation Scholar Award from the American Dairy Science Association
 * 2006 DeLaval Dairy Extension Award from the American Dairy Science Association
 * 2002 Samuel Cate Prescott award for outstanding research from the Institute of Food Technologists
 * Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
 * Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology
 * Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists
 * Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * Honorary Doctorate from Harper Adams University in the United Kingdom in 2016
 * 2018 Woman of Distinction by New York Senate

= Article Evaluation = Great Andamanese

It would be great to add some information about their way of life- food habits, social structure, etc.

Tone could be more respectful. Use some information provided by someone of the tribe.

Needs more citations from a more balanced mix of sources.

Hasn't been edited in over a year.

Part of WikiProject:India.

Alternatives to Insecticides
(This paragraph is being added to the Wikipedia page Insecticide as a part of my science communication strategy about Integrated Pest Management.)

Instead of using chemical insecticides to avoid crop damage caused by insects, there are many alternative options available now that can protect farmers from major economic losses. Some of them are:


 * 1) Breeding crops resistant, or at least less susceptible, to pest attacks.
 * 2) Releasing predators, parasitoids, or pathogens to control pest populations as a form of biological control.
 * 3) Chemical control like releasing pheromones into the field to confuse the insects into not being able to find mates and reproduce.
 * 4) Integrated Pest Management- using multiple techniques in tandem to achieve optimal results.
 * 5) Push-pull technique- intercropping with a "push" crop that repels the pest, and planting a "pull" crop on the boundary that attracts and traps it.