During a distinguished career spanning more than four decades, Catharine “Cathy” Ross, Ph.D., has contributed extensively to the science of nutrition, especially experimental nutrition.
Now the Journal of Nutrition, for which Ross served as editor-in-chief from 2004 to 2013, has honored her by establishing the A. Catharine Ross Award in Experimental Nutrition.
Ross is a professor in the Department of Nutrition in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
She also is part of the Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA, a unit within Texas A&M AgriLife Research, where she serves as the scientific director of a maternal/child cohort study.
PHOTO: Catharine Ross, Ph.D., has been recognized by the Journal of Nutrition with a new award in experimental nutrition that bears her name. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)
