Cameron Faustman has been a member of the Animal Science faculty since arriving at the University of Connecticut in the fall of 1989. His experience is in the area of food and meat science and he teaches courses in meat and dairy products, food safety, and food processing. He is a recent member of the Board of Directors of the American Meat Science Association, and served as Chair of the Meat Industry Research Conference (1997) and the Reciprocal Meat Conference (1998). Additionally, he served two years as Chairman of the Nutmeg section of the Institute of Food Technologists (1993-95), and is Meat Science Section Editor of the Journal of Animal Science (1998-2001).His research has focused on lipid and pigment oxidation in meat, antioxidant chemistry, and characterization of meat spoilage. He has published thirty four peer-reviewed journal articles, thirty seven abstracts, three book chapters, and fifteen conference proceedings. He teaches three courses per year and has written teaching articles associated with improving student oral communication skills and evolving forms of higher education in agriculture.
Dr. Faustman's Animal Food Products Course is currently approved as a Writing Skills class within the University of Connecticut's Writing Across the Curriculum program. He has joined departmental colleagues, Drs. Hoagland and Riesen, and Dr. Lynn Bloom and Teaching Assistants Kimberly Freeman and Dennis Lazor of the English Department in developing seminars and a handbook on improving student writing in the agricultural sciences. This project is funded by the Challenge Grant Program of the United States Department of Agriculture.