Elsa Murano - Department of Agriculture

Elsa Murano has been serving as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety. However, Elsa has recently been chosen as the next president of Texas A&M university and will be returning to the main campus. According to her... [more]

Elsa Murano has been serving as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety.

However, Elsa has recently been chosen as the next president of Texas A&M university and will be returning to the main campus.

According to her Whitehouse.gov bio: From 1995 until assuming her current post, Elsa Murano held several positions with Texas A&M University. Most recently, she served as the director of the university's Center for Food Safety within the Institute of Food Science and Engineering. She held the position of the Center for Food Safety's associate director from 1995 to 1997. Elsa served as a professor-in-charge of research programs at the Linear Accelerator Facility at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa from 1992 to 1995.

She is a graduate of Florida International University. Elsa also holds a M.S. degree in anaerobic microbiology and a Ph.D. in food science and technology, both from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.