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Feb 14, 2022
On January 28th the CFAH graduate student unit met for dinner at their first event of 2022 at El Campesino in Wooster and had conversation with CFAH alumnus, Dr. Yixuan Jacob Hou.
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Jan 14, 2022
Congratulations to Kush Yadav (Kenney Lab) on being selected to serve as co-vice chair and graduate student representative on the Infectious Diseases Institute Trainee Association (IDI-TA) Steering Committee.
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Dec 30, 2021
On December 16th, CFAH hosted it's 2021 Holiday Christmas Party for all CFAH faculty, staff, students, and their guests. A delicious boxed lunch was sponsored by the CFAH faculty and fun was had by all ages thanks to holiday activities put together by social committee members, Hannah Gehman and Mike Kauffman.
Photos from our memorable and fun-filled event can be viewed HERE. Special thanks to Dr. Wang’s husband, Hong, for capturing these wonderful photos!
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Dec 30, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Gireesh Rajashekara for being awarded the prestigious 2021-2022 Distinguished Senior Faculty Research Award! The CFAES Distinguished Senior Faculty Research Award honors academic, disciplinary, and professional excellence in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.
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Dec 20, 2021
On December 17, 2021 the Graduate Student Unit (GSU) at CFAH welcomed grad students and post-docs from CFAH and Animal Sciences to their inaugural event hosted at JAFB in Wooster. The group had 9 attendees and is planning their next event which will be held on Jan 28th.
For more information on the Graduate Student Unit (GSU) at CFAH and their future events, contact:
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Dec 16, 2021
Congratulations to Yusheng Guo who received the 2021-2022 William E. Krauss Director’s Award for Outstanding Publication by a Graduate Student on behalf of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and the Office of Research and Graduate Education. His advisor is Dr. Vlasova.
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Dec 13, 2021
Congratulations to the following CFAH graduate students on successfully completing their graduate defenses:
Moyasar Abdulhameed successfully completed his master’s defense. His dissertation was titled “Characterization of Cross-Species Transmission Potential for Porcine Deltacoronaviruses Expressing Sparrow Coronavirus Spike Protein in Commercial Poultry”.
S. Kenney and L.J. Saif, Co-advisors
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Dec 13, 2021
Joshua Amimo and Kush Yadav received the Dr. Redman and Center for Food Animal Health Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award 2021 to present at the 102nd CRWAD meeting this past week.
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Dec 13, 2021
Congratulations to Kush Yadav (Kenney Lab) on winning the David Francis Award (3rd place) given by the NC1202 Enteric Diseases of Food Animals Awards Committee. His oral presentation was entitled: “Ribosomal protein S17 (RPS17) insertion increases avian hepatitis E virus (aHEV) replication”
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Dec 13, 2021
Congratulations to Xiaoyu Niu (Wang Lab) for receiving the Student Travel Award for CRWAD 2021.
For over 100 years, CRWAD (Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases) has featured cutting-edge research on animal health and disease, population health, and translational medicine. CRWAD features lectures from world-renowned featured speakers in addition to showcasing over 400 research presentations made by scientific experts and scientists-in-training from around the world.
