About Us: Dwight Loveday

Dr. Dwight Loveday has a 75% appointment in the Food Science and Technology Department. His interests are in meat animal production, meat marketing and meat quality. In addition to three other Food Science and Technology classes, Dwight teaches three Meat Science classes: Meat Evaluation and Grading, Meat Science and Meat Science Lab. He has conducted an extensive amount of meat animal carcass evaluation for genetic improvement programs, research programs and carcass shows. Dr. Loveday served as team leader of the lamb judging section for the Meat Evaluation Handbook published by the American Meat Science Association. Dwight coordinates the UT intercollegiate meat judging program and officiates national meat judging contests. Dr. Loveday attended the University of Tennessee-Knoxville majoring in Animal Husbandry. After graduation, he completed the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Kansas State University in Animal Science with emphasis in meat science. Before returning to UT in 1983, Dwight was the Extension Meat Specialist at the University of Nebraska where he coordinated the 4-H and FFA meat judging and carcass evaluation programs.

Contact Info:

115c McLeod Hall
Phone: 865-974-7344
Fax: 865-974-7332
E-mail: hloveday@tennessee.edu