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Nell I. Mondy, professor emerita of nutrition, food science and toxicology at Cornell, was recognized at the 12th World Congress of Food Science and Technology in Chicago on July 16 for her contributions in the initiation and planning of the First Food Congress, which was held in London in l962. In the opening ceremony, David Lineback, director and chair of the organizing committee for this year's congress, recalled the early history of the organization and asked Mondy to stand before the large audience in recognition of her contributions. In a subsequent round-table discussion, Mondy described her successful efforts in the early 1980s to improve the diets of children in Nigeria by teaching mothers to grow soybeans and produce their own soy milk to help combat the severe nutritional deficiencies of local children. Her efforts mushroomed into a national soy milk program in Nigeria several years later. About 20,000 people and 900 exhibitors attended the congress. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy at Cornell, gave a plenary lecture at the congress on "Feeding the World: Innovations From Farm to Plate." Mondy, an expert in potato chemistry, has been a Cornell faculty member for 50 years.