Gustavo Barbosa-Canovas, Ph.D.
Engineering Foods for the Future
Awards and Honors
2014
- IFT Nonthermal Processing Division Service Award, New Orleans, USA
2013
- University of Salerno, Italy Fellowship to conduct research, present lectures and deliver a senior course at the Department of Chemical Engineering at this Institution for six months
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship to deliver a series of lectures in Combined Methods to Process Foods at several prestigious Japanese Universities and Research Institutions
2012-2014
- Elected IUFoST Scientific Council Chair
2011
- IFT Nonthermal Processing Division Outstanding Volunteer Award
2010
- Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research Scholarship and Arts, Washington State University
- Honoris Causa Doctorate from Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain
- Fulbright Senior Specialist Program Fellow
2006
- Fellow of the British Institute of Food Science and Technology (FSTI)
- IUFoST Outstanding Service Award, Nantes, France
- AIChE Outstanding Volunteer Service Award
2005
- IFT International Division Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award
- IFT Nicolas Appert Award, Institute of Food Technologists (Highest Award in Food & Science)
- Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists, the Society for Food Science and Technology
2003
- Elected permanent member of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST)
2003-2006
- Elected to Governing Council of IUFoST (International Union for Food Science and Technology)
2002
- Sir Frederick McMaster Fellowship for Excellence in Scientific Research, Government of Australia
- IFT Non-thermal Processing Division Lecturer
2002, 2001, 2000
- Sahlin Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Arts Finalist, Washington State University
2001
- Member, Uruguayan National Academy of Engineering
- John Christian Fellowship to deliver a series of lectures in Food Process Engineering at Food Science Australia-CSIRO
- International Award, Institute of Food Technologists
1999-2000
- Cited in Lexington’s who’s who
1999
- Faculty Excellence in Research Award, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University
1998-2001
- Institute of Food Technologists Scientific Lecturer
1998-2005
- Institute of Food Technologists Scientific Communicator
1998
- Cited in International Who’s Who of Professionals
- Sahlin Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Arts Nomination, Washington State University
1997
- Researcher of the Year, College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University
- Generalitat de Valencia Fellowship to conduct research for three months at IATA (Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos), Valencia, Spain
1997, 1996
- Research Excellence in Biological Systems Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University
1996-1998
- Featured Researcher, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University
1996
- ESCOP/ASOP Fellowship, for training in administration leadership, College of Agriculture and Home Economics (did not attend)
1995
- Transactions of the ASAE Paper Award
1994
- Cited in American Men & Women in Science
- Distinguished International Professor, Government of Catalonia, Spain
- University of Lleida Fellowship to conduct research for two months at this Institution, Lleida, Spain
1993-Present
- Honorary Professor, University of Uruguay
1992, 1993
- Kharkov Exchange Faculty Advisor, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University (not accepted)
1992
- Outstanding Teaching Faculty in Agricultural Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University
- Featured Teacher, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University
- Cited in Who’s Who among Hispanic Americans
1990
- Dedication Ceremony, AIChE-Student Chapter, Mayagüez, PR
1989, 1988
- NSF-EPSCoR Scholarly Productivity Award for Excellence in Research
1982-1985
- University of Massachusetts Fellowship for Ph.D. studies in Food Engineering
1980-1982
- Fulbright Scholarship for Master of Science studies in Food Engineering at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1980
- Government of Israel Scholarship, Ministry for Foreign Affairs: ‘International Postgraduate Course in Computer Applications to Water Resources’; Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1980
1967
- Youth for Understanding Scholarship, to study at a high school in the USA (not accepted)