 He was also an active member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) where he won the Samuel Cate Prescott Award in 1965, the Nicholas Appert Award in 1975, and a Fellow in 1977.Briskey also served as scientific editor of the "Journal of Food Science" in 1970-71 and as IFT President in 1975-76.Briskey died on June 24, 2006 after a brief battle with leukemia in Madison, Wisconsin.