Vice Chancellor to Speak at TPT Conference
Dr. Elsa Murano will be the featured speaker at the annual TPT Conference in Bay City on February 1, 2006. Dr. Murano was appointed Vice Chancellor and Dean, Agriculture and Life Sciences and Director, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Texas A&M University on January 3, 2005.
In 2001, Dr. Murano was appointed Undersecretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture, by President George W. Bush. Dr. Murano served as the highest ranking food safety official in the U.S. government with the responsibility of overseeing the policies and programs of the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS).
Prior to this appointment, Dr. Murano was appointed professor in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University after having been associate professor in that same department since 1995. She was awarded the Sadie Hatfield Professorship in Agriculture in 2000. Also while at Texas A&M University , Dr. Murano served as director of the Center for Food Safety within the Institute of Food Science and Engineering from 1997 to 2001 and associate director from 1995 to 1997.
Dr. Murano served as professor-in-charge of research programs at the Linear Accelerator Facility at Iowa State University from 1992 to 1995. She was an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Preventative Medicine at Iowa State University from 1990 to 1995
A native of Havana, Cuba, Dr. Murano received her B.S. in biological sciences from Florida International University. She received her M.S. in anaerobic microbiology and Ph.D. in food science and technology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
She resides in Bryan, TX with her husband Dr. Peter S. Murano.