Source: Paul Seib, 785-532-4088, paseib@k-state.edu
http://www.k-state.edu/media/mediaguide/bios/seibbio.html
News release prepared by: Beth Bohn, 785-532-6415, bbohn@k-state.edu
Thursday, September 27, 2007
K-STATE'S PAUL SEIB RECEIVES RESEARCH AWARD FROM KU
MANHATTAN -- A Kansas State University grain scientist is being recognized for his research work with a Higuchi award from the University of Kansas.
Paul Seib, professor emeritus of grain science and industry, is receiving the Irvin Youngberg Award for Applied Sciences from KU. The honor includes a $10,000 award which must be used for research materials, summer salaries, fellowship matching funds, research assistance or other research-related support.
A cereal chemist, Seib's expertise includes cereal carbohydrates, wheat-based foods and stable forms of vitamin C. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles, several book chapters and a monograph. He also holds 18 U.S. patents, including two involving a stabilized form of vitamin C used in animal feeds, particularly aquaculture feed.
Seib's work has earned numerous honors, including the Melville L. Wolfrom Award from the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry of the American Chemical Society; Award of Merit from the Japanese Society of Applied Glycoscience; and the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Alsberg-Schoch Memorial Lectureship Award, both from the American Association of Cereal Chemists.
He also received the 2001 Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty awards for outstanding contributions to research and graduate education at K-State.
Seib is a member of several honorary and professional societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which elected him a Fellow in 2002; Sigma XI; American Chemical Society, where he has served as chair of its Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry; Fellow and member of the American Association of Cereal Chemists, serving as director from 1988 to 1990 and chair of its Carbohydrate Division in 1981; Division of Carbohydrates of the Institute of Food Technologists; Japanese Society of Applied Glycoscience and the Bio-Environmental Degradable Polymer Society. He also has served on and has been chair of the board of the USA Starch Round Table. Seib currently serves on the board of editors of two journals dealing with carbohydrate polymers.
He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1958 and a doctorate in biochemistry in 1965, both from Purdue University. He joined K-State in 1970 as an associate professor and was promoted to professor in 1978. Before coming to K-State he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Paper Chemistry from 1965-70. Seib retired from K-State in 2006.
Seib and the recipients of the three other Higuchi awards -- all from KU -- will be recognized later this year.
The Higuchi awards were established by the late Takeru Higuchi, a distinguished professor at KU from 1967 to 1983, and his wife, Aya, to honor outstanding research accomplishments of faculty at Kansas Board of Regents institutions. The four individual awards are named for people who have worked through the KU Endowment Association to further KU's overall research program.