Food & Nutrition

Biography

Michael Trevan is an enthusiastic champion of agriculture and has served its community and the University of Manitoba with vision and acumen. He led the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences from 2004 to 2014. His outreach efforts were formidable. He collaborated with foreign universities in join undergraduate baccalaureate training programs and successfully developed education markets overseas, in particular India, China and the Middle East. During his leadership, enrollment in the Faculty’s degree and diploma programs increased from 250 to more than 600. He has devoted more than 35 years to teaching and researching health, nutrition, food biotechnology and plant disease. He has authored more than 90 books, chapters and peer-reviewed publications. He has presented at countless conferences and seminars, and holds one patent.

Research Interest

Agricultural and Food sciences.