• WCVM professor Dr. Cheryl Waldner tied for the 2012 Award for Most Effective Professor at the University of Saskatchewan's School of Public Health.
Waldner, a faculty member in the WCVM's Department of Large Animal Clinical Services, shares this year's award with Dr. Niels Koehncke of the U of S College of Medicine.
Each year, the School of Public Health Students Association presents this award along with a second honour, the Award for Most Approachable Professor, to instructors. Students in the School's Master of Public Health program vote for the awards' recipients. Waldner teaches two elective courses at the SPH: Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Analytical Epidemiology (Epidemiology II).
• In a recent Globe and Mail supplement, Dr. John Giesy was listed as the Canadian researcher with the top H-index score (66) in his discipline of environmental studies. The "H-index" gives each researcher a score based on the number of their publications and the number of times the person was cited in other peer-reviewed publications. Giesy is the U of S Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology and is a professor in the WCVM's Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences.
• WCVM graduate student Stacey Elmore recently received the Willis A. Reid Student Research Grant from the American Society of Parasitologists. The award, which is worth $1,000, will be used toward Elmore's PhD program in the WCVM's Department of Veterinary Microbiology.
Elmore, whose work is supervised by Dr. Emily Jenkins, is investigating Toxoplasma gonddii ecology in northern ecosystems.The American Society of Parasitologists (ASP) is a diverse group of over 1,500 scientists from industry, government, and academia who are interested in the study and teaching of parasitology.
• On March 30, WCVM graduate student Dinesh Dadarwal received the best presentation by a PhD student at the University of Saskatchewan's annual Reproductive Science and Medicine Research Symposium.
Dadarwal, whose work is supervised by Dr. Jaswant Singh, gave an oral presentation entitled, "Effect of follicular aging on the nuclear maturation and distribution of lipid droplets in bovine oocytes." Besides Dadarwal and Singh, the research project's team includes Mrigank Honparkhe, Tegan Alce, Fernanda Dias and Carl Lessard.
• WCVM associate professor Dr. Ali Honaramooz recently had a book chapter called "Cryopreservation of testicular tissue" published in the online textbook, Current Frontiers in Cryobiology. Within the first month of its release, the chapter's PDF was downloaded about 1,400 times.
The textbook, along with its sister publication called Current Frontiers in Cryopreservation, were created by scientists in 27 countries from all of the world's continents.
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