the environment – both subjects of paramount public concern – Suttie has contributed to the assessment and resolution of an uncommonly broad spectrum of important problems, and he has played a very influential role in establishing sound scientific criteria for new recommendations or regulatory action,” according to DeLuca.

Suttie, who holds the Katherine Berns Van Donk Steenbock Professorship in Nutrition, earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees at the College, and joined the faculty of the biochemistry department in 1961. He served as chair and professor in the nutritional sciences department and director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences from 1988 to 1997.

Prior to assuming the chair of the nutritional sciences department, Suttie played a leading role in the biochemistry teaching program at both undergraduate and graduate levels. For 16 years he taught Biochemistry 501, which is not only the most important course in the biochemistry curriculum but also the most challenging teaching assignment. Suttie”s shelves include the dissertations of some 35 Ph.D. students, and he has worked with about 25 postdoctoral associates. He has published nearly 300 journal articles in the areas of vitamin K action and fluoride metabolism.

Suttie was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996. He has served on the Dietary Guidelines and Dietary Reference Intakes Committees, and the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee. He is a past-president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and the American Society for Nutritional Sciences. He is currently the editor of the Journal of Nutrition.

Suttie was recently appointed to the USDA”s Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board. The board advises the U.S. secretary of agriculture, land grant colleges and universities, and the House and Senate agriculture committees and subcommittees on USDA research, education and extension policies and pr