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Gary C. Smith occupied the Monfort Endowed Chair in Meat Science at Colorado State University in June of 1990. Previously, he served as a Professor (1969-1982) and Head (1982-1990) of the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University where he won the Outstanding Teaching Performance Award, the Honor Professor Award, the College of Agriculture Teaching Award, the University Distinguished Teaching Award and the Deputy Chancellor’s Award for Team Research. Gary has won both the Distinguished Research Award and the Distinguished Teaching Award from both the American Society of Animal Science and the American Meat Science Association. He has also been awarded the National Association of Meat Purveyors Outstanding Educator Award, the National Livestock Grading and Marketing Association Service Award (three times; in 1979, 1988 and 1995), the Livestock Publications Council Headliner Award, and was named one of the 25 Who Made a Difference by Beef magazine.
In 1993, he was named a University Distinguished Professor by Colorado State University and a Fellow-In-Teaching by the American Society of Animal Science; in 1994 he was named one of six Industry Innovators by Meat Marketing and Technology magazine. In 1989, he was named a Distinguished Alumni by College of the Sequoias; in 1996 he received the Alumni Award of Excellence from California State University-Fresno. In 1997, he received the Meritorious Service Award from the Intercollegiate Meat Coaches Association of the American Meat Science Association and the Meat Industry Achievement Award from the American Meat Institute. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Floyd Forbes Award for service to the National Meat Association and of the Secretariat of Agriculture of Argentina, Service Recognition Award. In 1999, Gary received the Top Choice Award from the Colorado Livestock Association and was named the Distinguished Alumnus in Science, Education and Technology by Washington State University. The International Livestock Education Foundation inducted him into the International Stockmen's Hall of Fame in 2000. He received the CSU Mortar Board National Honor Society Appreciation Award in 2000. College of the Sequoias honored him with the Outstanding Service Award (Support of Intercollegiate Meat Judging) 2000. In 2000, he was the recipient of the National Cattlemen’s Foundation, 2001 Vision Award Region 5, 2000 and the Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Meat Export Federation. The American Meat Science Association honored him with the R.C. Pollock Award in 2001. He received the Beefmaster Breeders United, Commitment To Excellence Award, 2001. In 2002, he was selected as CSURF Honored Researcher by the Colorado State University Research Foundation. He was listed in ISI Thomson Scientific’s, 2002 Highly Cited Researchers.
Smith’s research interests include red meat safety, carcass evaluation and grading; composition, quality and palatability of red meat; and, packaging and retailing of red meat. He has published 398 full-length articles in refereed scientific journals and more than 825 other contributions as proceedings, technical reports, etc. Gary served as President of the American Meat Science Association in 1976. For the National Academy of Sciences, he was chairman of the Committee that wrote Irradiation of Meat and Meat Products (1979) and a member of the Committee that wrote Designing Foods. (1988). For the Office of Technology Assessment, he was a member of the Committee that wrote Packaging and Labeling of Fresh Red Meat (1974).
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